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Buyers and Salespeople

lifted from comments, written by reader Jack Tom said: “Some of the reported sales methods sound like they’re somewhere between ‘bullshit promises’ and mild deception. Then again, it’s car dealers…

Sotomayor

…and was always trying to get them. Why is it that the person to actually look at Sotomayor’s opinions is not a print journalist but rather blogger Tom Goldstein ?…

Physician Office IT

…vendors, this may be the surprise leader of the pack. Tires, lettuce, underwear, health IT. Such a concept. Hat tip: International Herald Tribune 3/11/2009 Posted by Tom at 11:36 AM…

MSFT is Different

Following up on Tom’s post of yesterday, PC World offers a list of “10 Ways Microsoft’s Retail Stores Will Differ from Apple Stores.” With links. In honor of #7, it’s…

Quote of the Day on Executive Pay

…to tumble sharply, starting in 2007. Since I don’t feel like retreading, here are links to PGL here in 2007 and Tom at the Legacy Blog in 2006, 2007, and…

Chinn and Thoma hit it out of the park

Tom Sargent “Ed Prescott thinks growth theory should be used to study everything but growth.” It is very very strange that stationary growth models are written and compared to H.P.filtered…

Daschle withdraws

rdan Tom Daschle withdraws Tax Prof Blog has carried a whole series of posts on the man but also the tax questions and remedies for the stimulus and for nominees…