Obama Crushes McCain in Online Ad Impressions

Need to pimp the corporate blog a bit more. Check out this posting:

Obama Ads - Nielsen Analyst Blog

What Would Milton Friedman Say?

This is a really cool article from Forbes:

What Would Milton Friedman Say?

Would Milton have seen the crisis as a setback for capitalism?

Only in the short term.

"If this election goes the way it looks as though it's going to go," says Tom, "then the political system is about to get a major overcorrection to the left. And that means the American people are about to get an extreme illustration of just how badly government intervention screws stuff up."

"If Milton were here," Tom says, "he'd tell us to remember what happened during the Clinton administration. After just two years, the Republicans ended up in control of both houses of Congress."

Back to Basics - Nielsen Analyst Blog

Check out Charlie Buchwalter's blog posting on market corrections and the implications for the market research world:

Back to Basics

The recent cataclysmic events in financial markets have jolted many of us into a “back to basics” mentality. Basics such as “what goes up must come down.” Basics such as “live within your means.”

Over the weekend, my colleague Dave Martin and I reviewed a 100 year trend of price/earnings ratios for the S&P 500. For the last 18 years or so, the average has driven far north of the long term average of 15, and a “back to basics” mentality would have indicated that sooner or later it would come back down to the average, and probably overshoot it on the way down. Lo and behold: an article in last Thursday’s Wall Street Journal reported that the P/E ratio went below 11...

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