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    Why the Clueless Can’t Survive

    By: David Evans on July 1st, 2009

    I suppose dinosaurs were pretty disoriented in their final years roaming the earth so maybe we shouldn’t be too critical of the newspaper industry today.
    Still the fact that the WSJ publisher is lashing out at Google as the cause of the newspaper death spiral is unsettling. Sure, Google has been a prominent player in […]

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    Is “Free” as Revolutionary as the Wheel?

    By: David Evans on June 28th, 2009

    Here’s my take on Chris Anderson’s forthcoming Future of Free.
    First, the notion that businesses can make money by giving something away for free isn’t new by any stroke of the imagination. It is also a pretty well studied phenomenon by economists. I think the earliest mathematical treatment I saw was in R.G.D. Allen’s excellent […]

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    What Will the Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Do?

    By: David Evans on June 23rd, 2009

    This is the first of several posts I’ll do on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency that the Obama Administration has proposed to protect consumers and investors from financial abuse.
    The Administration released an 88 page white paper on financial services reform on June 17th. The CFPA is a major new proposed agency and accounts for a […]

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    Will nextnewnetwork Really be the Next New Network?

    By: David Evans on June 23rd, 2009

    Well, depends on who you ask. The New York Times seems to think it has a shot at drawing eyeballs away from traditional television. But, I am not so sure. So, in service to all you readers of the Catalyst Code Blog, I took time out of my busy afternoon to check out nextnewnetwork. […]

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    My week of tweeting

    By: David Evans on June 20th, 2009

    I figured I’d take the Twitter plunge despite my skepticism. I’ve been at it a week to help promote FinReg21.com our new media property on financial services regulation and its reform. Here’s a preliminary report. The good news is that it is fun and easy. Knocking out 140 character comments is pretty easy and the […]

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    Stress Testing Obama’s Financial Regulatory Plan

    By: David Evans on June 17th, 2009

    The financial services industry will be more closely monitored if much of President Obama’s regulatory plan that was released today gets enacted.
    The White House team obviously put a great deal of work and thought into this plan. Congress, industry and the public will now need to go over it carefully. Here are four questions […]

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    New Taxes for Paying with Plastic

    By: David Evans on June 11th, 2009

    The populist bandwagon to whack the credit card companies for a financial crisis they didn’t cause is still going on. The latest is proposed legislation —really a revival of stuff that’s been floating around—to help the merchants reduce the fees they pay to the card companies. You don’t need an advanced degree in economics—just […]

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    Being Flexible During Times of Disruption

    By: David Evans on June 3rd, 2009

    Hearst Magazines is following a ‘contrarian strategy’ when it comes to its online strategy and pricing its print magazines according to an article in Monday’s New York Times. Hearst has raised newsstand prices for most of its magazines, sometimes significantly. And rather than sticking all of its content online it has been pretty coy. Online […]

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    Is Canoe a Lifeboat for the Cable Industry?

    By: David Evans on June 1st, 2009

    The cable industry appears to be struggling to come up with a targeted advertising platform to compete with the internet according to an article in the Wall St. Journal on the 27th of May, Cable Industry Weighs Its Approach to Targeted Ads.
    Here’s why this is important. The online advertising industry has demonstrated the […]

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    Death Spirals: How Positive Feedback Effects Work in Reverse

    By: David Evans on May 27th, 2009

    Positive feedback effects are one of the most important sources of growth for businesses in many industries from new ones like social networking to old ones like telephones. It turns out that, like leverage, what’s really good on the upside is also quite bad on the downside. Malls and newspapers are two interesting recent […]

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