80s Commercials Quotes

I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.

In 1996, my first year on Wall Street, the New York Times wrote a story pointing out that IBM, which had employed more than two dozen in-house economists in the 1970s and ’80s, had canned them all. Many other major corporations like General Electric had done the same, preferring to use commercial services. Why? Because high-paid economists’ predictions were unreliable.