I hate to respond to a sig, especially since I'm not sure of it's veracity. However, the crash of 1929 didn't have to do with corporations holding on to their earnings, but a lack of safety nets in place on the market as well as rampant speculation (quite like the irrational exuberance of the late 90's). The economy is getting better and has MANY controls in place in this post Enron/Worldcom/etc Sarbanes-Oxley world.
To the contrary every Hollywood release is released to a VERY specific demographic with a VERY expected return. Large scale productions are most definately done on a whim to please everybody...nobody would ever fund it as it is has long been common knowledge that you cannot please everybody. Hollywood hucksters are not as stupid as their releases would indicate.
In this day and age marketing is much more sophisticated than even the jaded/. crowd would be willing to admit. Like it or not, you are assimilated and accounted for.
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.....and BonziBuddy doesn't run on it.
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I hate to respond to a sig, especially since I'm not sure of it's veracity. However, the crash of 1929 didn't have to do with corporations holding on to their earnings, but a lack of safety nets in place on the market as well as rampant speculation (quite like the irrational exuberance of the late 90's). The economy is getting better and has MANY controls in place in this post Enron/Worldcom/etc Sarbanes-Oxley world.
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To the contrary every Hollywood release is released to a VERY specific demographic with a VERY expected return. Large scale productions are most definately done on a whim to please everybody...nobody would ever fund it as it is has long been common knowledge that you cannot please everybody. Hollywood hucksters are not as stupid as their releases would indicate.
/. crowd would be willing to admit. Like it or not, you are assimilated and accounted for.
In this day and age marketing is much more sophisticated than even the jaded