The name game

Following only a couple days after posting a comment on old-fashioned marketing (starting with your ABCs), I came across an article in the Daily Telegraph (Tuesday May 22, page 29) entitled “Is your name to blame for your life?” The article featured an online study of...

NYC Presidential Race (courtesy Freakonomics)

I found refreshing, as a pseudo New Yorker, this blog by Freakonomics duo, Levitt & Dubner, on the possibility of having three of the US Presidential candidates coming from New York: H Clinton (D), Giuliani (R) and Bloomberg (Independent)…! When you know...

Lessons from French Elections for USA

Ok, the old news is that UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has won the 2007 French Presidential elections. Argue what you will about the benefit of one or other candidate, the campaign and its results seem to carry several good messages that the American electorate would...

Spending on US political campaigns

Until recently, I wasn’t aware that US presidential candidates were only allowed to accept $2,300 from a single individual in the primaries and another $2,300 for the presidential campaign. The only exception is the candidate him/herself who is allowed to invest...

Educating the children on democracy

I must say that my wife, Yendi, has taken the elections as a great opportunity to “teach” the children (Oscar 10 and Alexandra 7) the interest of the right to vote. Without bias, we have asked them to judge the candidate’s pamphlets (inevitably a...

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