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My name is Patrick Di Chiro, and I am the founder and CEO of THUNDER FACTORY, an integrated marketing firm headquartered in San Francisco. In this blog, I examine the convergence of marketing with technology, culture, politics and the global economy. If you like what you see, please spread [...]

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What a week. The financial world experienced an historical meltdown, one presidential candidate claimed the economy’s “fundamentals are sound,” and the anti-regulation Republican White House embarked on the biggest government bail-out of financial firms in US history. And it ain’t over yet.
If we needed any more evidence that our much vaunted US financial system is beyond troubled, the past week [...]

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