And i go and and i just sit quietly in a think about little Dale Carnegie in the big cosmos and the sort of makes everything come into perspective. So the tale of carnegie is a little complicated. There is a renewed religiosity on the one hand, but on the other hand its very much in the vein of therapeutic selffulfillment brothers and a kind of more traditional protestantism. That is more or less where he ended. He was very Close Friends i should add that i can clinch the case of Norman Vincent field. He once described to him had he put it, they were working the same street. They were just working different sides of the street. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you very much, professor watson. The book is herself from barnes noble in the hall. Thank you very much. A tv interview Kevin Freeman at the Political Action conference about his book game plan. The book, mr. Friedman discusses economic and financial terrorism and suggests ways for americans to protect themselves. Kevin free
Has used to sort of convinced folks, their customers, to do things that arent good for them. And so the work of the investors at iccr and the challenge is that on the one hand we are investors. We have pension obligations and, in fact, when you think about investors theres always this tension about shortterm versus longterm. As faithbased investors i would argue we actually have the longest time horizon of eternity. So we take this stuff very, very seriously. And we are trying to not only encourage corporations across a number of mispriced externalities to change how they operate, but we are also absolutely convinced, and i think that the record bears this out, that by paying attention to these mispriced externalities, by sitting down with companies and talking about something that may not look like a profit oriented conversation, that we actually anticipate problems and opportunities in the marketplace. One of the reasons that Corporate America lets us into the boardroom, into the con
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Gerri we begin tonight with finding the perfect bargain. Markets think well fall for anything and you want the best deal when you shop but how do you know youre getting, competenting a good deal with all the creative pricing and sales gimmicks out there. Are you waiting for sales that are not bargains . We have bruce terkel a marketing expert. Markets out there, just like you my friend. You think well fall for anything. What do you think consumers really want . Do they want every day low pricing or want a pricing on sales day . We see enough situation that prove they dont want every day low pricing. They want to feel like theyre getting something special. They feel like theyre smarter, done more research, have more information. Nobody wants to feel like a rube. Nobody wants to feel like a patsy. They all want to feel like they scored. Thrill of the hunt is what theyre looking for. Gerri i see you cite as a example. Jcpenney. Absolutely. Gerri those guys had big sales and bargains. They
You said. As a realitytvshowtype moment that he would play, that he would push onto the people of american, in order to win reelection. That he would use all the trappings of the office, in order to get people to in order to own the news cycle. In order to get people to see him as strong, and that hes the president. Hes going to mauz oouse marine. He is going to use the military. Hes going to use the flags. Hes going to go waving around in some sort of oneman parade, victory lap. I had no doubt, on friday, that he would do all of those things. And so, when all of those things happened, quite honestly, i dont know if this is sad or bad or good. I was not shocked. I am not shocked. I am not outraged. I, actually, just feel sorry. I feel pity for us, as the American People, especially the people who are being subject to it, having to watch it on the news. When there are things the president , walking off of a helicopter. And walking up a flight of stairs. What is the value in that . How a