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A Management Consultant @ Large
http://jpfarrell.blogspot.com
Innovation in the Food and Beverage Industry. Introduces retail lifecycle management, the notion that a retail chain must manage an investment stream in a portfolio of locations that both determines its operating efficiency ad makes a lasting statement about its marketing intent. Topics covered include economics, supply chain strategy, operations, design, and process management.
Recent Posts
Automotive Industry Bailout
Chevy SuburbanWe put this question to the new Discussion Forum for A Management Consultant @ Large on LinkedIn:Do you think funds from TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) should be used to help the U.S. automotive industry? How about other troubled ...
Credit Default Swaps: Recent Stories from NPR
National Public RadioIn a previous post I mentioned, without much explanation, that credit default swaps (CDS) were instrumental in creating the 2008 credit crisis. As it happens, Alex Blumberg has done some of the clearest reporting on CDS for a Na...
Financial Crisis: Stepping Back from the Precipice
Tarpeian Rock, RomeEconomists, bloggers and amateur historians will read with interest the rich exchange of ideas on the Paulson bailout plan instigated by Christopher Carroll, the economist from Johns Hopkins University, on the Economists' Forum blo...
A Review of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
The Library of CongressThe US House is expected to vote today on the Senate version of the bailout plan, HR1424, the Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Following two weeks of intense scrutiny, debate, political wrangling and even some soul searchin...
The Bailout Explained by the CBO
Peter Orszag, Ph. D., Director of the CBOThe Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), economist Peter Orszag, publishes a blog with detailed information about the issues shaping current legislation. In his role as the leader of the non-par...

