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Woods' future seems dreary as—according to the Davie-Brown Index, a measure of a celebrity's influence on brands and consumers??his standing among the general public has dramatically decreased. Woods was ranked as number 6 last year, but he has since plummeted to number...
...could hire administrative staffers and full-time workers in addition to putting the unemployed of the arts sector back on their feet and working for a common purpose. Some might argue that financing artists should be low on our priority totem pole. But artists are taxpayers, rent-payers, and consumers??just like everyone else. This country has 100,000 nonprofit arts groups, which employ some six million people and contribute $167 billion to the economy per year. Of course, in the long term we could use more engineers and science teachers, but right now we really need more...
...Though Murphy said that it is “absolutely fine” for students to jot down numbers from the Coop for their own price comparison, he said that individual consumers?? actions differ from BrunoBooks “wholesale, electronically scraping all the information from the Web site...
...Publishers must do the same thing to transform books from a dead-end product to a revenue generator. Right now, consumers?? investment in books begins and ends at the Barnes & Noble counter. An average fan of “The Kite Runner” probably wouldn’t watch an online video of author Khaled Hosseini reading out loud, pay money to attend a book signing, or buy a poster of the book. It’s not that they’re against the idea; most of the time, the thought simply hasn?...
...cursory reading of Mankiw’s Principles of Economics will reveal subsidies are, as a general rule, inefficient; they distort incentives and create deadweight loss. While they can produce artificially low prices at the grocery store, the funds paying for this difference come straight out of consumers?? wallets in the form of tax dollars. Ultimately the costs outweigh the benefits. American farm subsidies are no exception, and have the added drawback of incurring the ire of foreign farmers who find themselves undersold by government-backed U.S. agriculture. This consistently creates a roadblock in international trade negations...