Market Madness 2009: The Sour Sixteen

This is from an editorial in the student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin, titled "The Worst People on Campus":

When it comes to animation, no one comes close to Pixar. When it comes to marketing, real life movies rule. But Pixar surprised us with their promotion of this year's upcoming film "Monsters University." While most studios rely on trailers, movie posters, and simple social media tactics to attract audiences to theaters, Pixar has gone one step further.

In my mind, the way to start getting at the crux of the problem of why higher education costs keep going up is to try to put yourself in the shoes of the President of the University of Miami* in Coral Gables, Florida. Currently you’re ranked 47th on US News and World Report‘s “national universities” rankings. Naturally, you know that this is a highly imperfect methodology.

RANsquawk submits:

David Warsh submits: So much for summer vacation. It’s back to work for Economic Principals. Doing what? Plowing through the torrent of literature of the 2007-09 crash, among other things. The experts’ deciphering of the crisis is nearly complete. Now the real work begins.

Although Florida Gulf Coast University is only 22 years old, it's economics department has already developed a reputation for it's pro-free enterprise philosophy.