Comments on: Big Flashing Red Bullsh*t Alarm Going Off

By: Doc

Doc — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:28:44 +0000

I'm a little late to this, but the Arizona Daily Star had an interesting article the other day:

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Country Thunder USA will rumble into Canyon Moon Ranch near Florence today with a highly advertised four-day lineup that includes such country stars as Phil Vassar and rock veteran John Fogerty.
But does the event â€” with the tens of thousands of people it draws each day â€” inject significant amounts of money into the local economy?
Regional economic experts say no. Although the numbers for Country Thunder don't add up to much, it does gives the area valuable exposure, said Rayna Palmer, with the Northeastern Pinal Economic Partnership.
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Florence officials, who did not produce the town's sales tax figures, said the town does not experience any significant spike in business either, but appreciates the exposure Country Thunder brings.
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A rare admission from government "officials" . . . .

By: Mesa Econoguy

Mesa Econoguy — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:26:51 +0000

Newsflash:

Everything printed in the AZ Repugnant should cause the giant red flashing bull/horsecrap alarms to go off.

ASU has a Skool o Bidness? Who knewâ€¦..?

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:53:50 +0000

You’re forgetting the magical “multiplier effect” whereby the money spent by game-goers changes hands so often that even fishermen in Alaska are eventually lifted out of poverty (much as butterfly wings beating in Nebraska cause typhoons in poor parts of Asia.) It’s often referred to as the six degrees of Bill Belichick.

By: DesertJeff

DesertJeff — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:30:25 +0000

Are you robador, or is someone plagiarizing you? (Just checking)

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:06:10 +0000

This is the same BS analysis that every city wishing to host an Olympics does….they conveniently “forget” the baseline and assume the hotel and restaurants would be absolutely empty. Sure, 80,000 or whatever number of people came to the game, but they probably displaced the normal 60,000 or whatever that would have been here anyway. Hotel occupancy goes from 80% to 98% not 0% to 98%.

By: la petite chou chou

la petite chou chou — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:21:53 +0000

Bha-hahahaha. Those kinds of obvious math errors crack me up. And I’m not even good at math.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:14:38 +0000

"Basically the study is saying that the entire retail trade for the whole state of Arizona was more than doubled in Superbowl week."

Which of course could never be accomplished by the addition of the stadium's maximum 73,000 capacity to the Phoenix metro area.

Unless they all drank Cristal at a rate greater than even Snoop Dogg himself.