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No Trust In U.S. Government
The Pew Research Center has just released a study examining Americans' trust in government. The study reveals that only 22% of Americans' believe they can trust their government "almost always or most of the time". Perhaps more alarming, nearly 1 in 3 Americans believe that the power of the federal government needs to be reined in because it represents a major threat to their personal freedoms!
A Cause For Concern
Although I usually find myself respectfully at odds with the writings of New York Times columnist, Thomas L. Friedman, I found myself supportive of his view, expressed in an op-ed article in September of last year, regarding Applied Materials and the lack of focus the solar materials manufacturing industry has received in the United States.
Municipal Impact
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Until very recently, most municipalities maintained their spending at pre-crisis levels even as they warned of numerous cutbacks being forced on them by declining tax revenues. As property values have fallen and corporate profits have weakened so have tax receipts.
Entitlement Addiction
Since the election of President Obama, conservatives have railed against the tremendous amount of government stimulus being provided to our economy and how we are trending dangerously close to a socialistic society.
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‘Made in Britain’ gets new logo
As globalization advances and as more and more companies move their production to more salary-competitive countries, it’s harder to tell where does one product some from. Hence the need to clearly mark products made in Cyprus as ‘Made in Cyprus’, products made in Ireland as ‘Made in Ireland’, products made in the Netherlands as ‘Made [...]
Time for a Japanese luxury car brand (Part I)
We’ve argued before that commercial brands coming from emerging countries such as Brazil, China and India should use their nationality as a marketing asset more, and that they can do it across many industries. But they are not alone. Even brands coming from a country with a strong nation brand such as Japan could use [...]
Branding Kenya video
Last week we looked at a video about Slovenia’s nation-branding efforts. Now it’s the turn for yet another keynote from the Berlin International Congress held earlier this year. It’s now Mary Kimonye, who some of you will remember from previous news and updates from Kenya’s project to develop a country brand.
Palestinians to embark in nation branding too
Palestine might not be a country yet, but it’s a nation to most people – which qualifies them to rightfully do some nation branding. And as it turns out by this story on the Financial Times, they’ve just started to create a brand-new Palestinian Institute for Public Diplomacy, which will be charged with Palestine’s nation [...]
