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Those who read this blog know that I love any new marketing ideas that work. So forget traditional marketing methods on TV and copy Samsung who commissioned a few Welsh farmers to make this viral ad for YouTube: Posted on 16th March, 100,000 views already and rising. Love it … and it'll give you a…

The Austrian Times reports that a desperate bridegroom committed four bank robberies after his fiance's plans for a huge white wedding got out of hand. "The hapless groom, a 36-year-old Turk living in Vienna, netted more than €275,000 ($350,000) before he was caught but it still wasn't enough for his fiancee who demanded 500 guests,…

In what began a week ago as an attack on CNBC's Business News coverage and escalated into a head-to-head battle between CNBC's Stock Market pundit Jim Cramer and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, came to what seemed to be a conclusion on Thursday night as Cramer made a personal appearance on Stewart's Daily Show. The full…

There's nothing like being an online pundit, yours truly included, because your views are on record and, if you call the future and get it wrong, boy, are you dead meat. Jim Cramer knows this when he cried "do not take your money out of Bear Stearns" last March, just days before the broker was…

It’s been a great week for men of words in the banking system to come clean and tell their stories of mistakes and errors. It started with Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labour under Bill Clinton, stating that: “The idea of a self regulating market seems quaint if not outright ludicrous in the wake of…

It’s been a great week for men of words in the banking system to come clean and tell their stories of mistakes and errors. It started with Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labour under Bill Clinton, stating that: “The idea of a self regulating market seems quaint if not outright ludicrous in the wake of…

It’s been a great week for men of words in the banking system to come clean and tell their stories of mistakes and errors. It started with Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labour under Bill Clinton, stating that: “The idea of a self regulating market seems quaint if not outright ludicrous in the wake of…

Jon Stewart's Daily Show on Comedy Central rips CNBC Business News to pieces: Some great clips and puts this all in context.  Checkout 3 minutes onwards if you want to see this whole crisis put into perspective. Thanks to Jeffry at the Financial Brand for the heads-up.