At 11:19 PM 07/02/2002 +1000, you wrote:
Sidgmore used his golden hour at the podium to complain about how much
MCI WorldCom spends on marketing its network services. According to
Sidgmore, an astonishing 49% of the telecom giant's service costs to
customers can be traced to marketing. In
G'day Penpals,
Just to lend a little flavour to the WorldCom saga, here's a little note
from Xmas 2000 - poignant and, with respect to the likely state of other
telcos', possibly significant :
G'day Doug,
In light of your note that ...
Naomi Klein says that high marketing costs essential to
At 11:19 PM 07/02/2002 +1000, you wrote:
Sidgmore used his golden hour at the podium to complain about how much
MCI WorldCom spends on marketing its network services. According to
Sidgmore, an astonishing 49% of the telecom giant's service costs to
customers can be traced to marketing. In
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27386] Good analysis of WCOM and Credit Bubble
this is a tad unfair to old Newt, that old toad. The Newtish ideology is at the center of what caused all of the finacial shenanigans, but the ideology is pretty old: it's _laissez-faire_ (a.k.a., neo-liberalism), a vision that
The article that Steve sent reminds me about how much I would like to see us to
changing nature of risk. I already mentioned in an earlier note the importance
of how workers are absorbing more of the risk of economic fluctuations.
Corporations, including financial corporations, are getting more
