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• Now Time Magazine Blasts the 401(k)

  BNET - 2009-10-13

  This week's Time Magazine cover story looks at the nation's de facto retirement program, the ubiquitous 401k, and pronounces it inadequate. Welcome to the club, Time. This blog has been calling the 401k a failure since June.  In August, the NY Times weighed in, making the same points. Glad to...

  Tags: 401(k) Plan, Time Magazine, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Personal Finance, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Eric Schurenberg

• Venerable Readers Digest Listed as "At-Risk" by Moody's

  BNET - 2009-03-10

  When I was growing up, one of the most reliable items found in everyone's home in our neck of the woods was the Readers Digest. Even today, it is the number one consumer magazine in the U.S. with over ten million subscribers, plus 40 million subscribers in 70 countries overseas....

  Tags: Moody's Corp., List, Time Magazine, Advertising & Promotion, Document Management, Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, Telecommunications, Investment, Strategy, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Networking, Management, David Weir

• Time magazine vows to fight defamation win by Indonesia's Suharto

  - 2007-09-10

  JAKARTA AFP — A lawyer for Time magazine in Indonesia vowed Tuesday to fight a Supreme Court decision awarding former dictator Suharto 106 million dollars in a defamation suit he filed against the publication in 1999. The ruling, announced Monday, overturns two lower court decisions and also orders the...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, FINANCE, HEALTHCARE, MARKETING, SOFTWARE, Time Magazine

• Tilting at windmills

  - 2006-10-01

  Lessons from TR Karl Rove recently wrote an essay for Time magazine on the lessons to be learned from the life of Teddy Roosevelt. One lesson was not mentioned by Rove. Roosevelt not only served in the Spanish-American War, leading the famous charge up San Juan Hill, but offered...

  Tags: Bush, Democrat, FINANCE, Government, Iraq, president, Snow, Taxes, Time Magazine, Washington Post Co., White House

• Aide says Bush first learned of atrocities in Iraq from media

  - 2006-05-31

  WASHINGTON -- President Bush learned of reports that U.S. Marines killed two dozen unarmed Iraqi civilians only after reporters began asking questions, the White House said Tuesday. Asked when Bush was first briefed about the events in Haditha, an insurgent stronghold in western Iraq, White House press secretary...

  Tags: Bush, FINANCE, Investment, Iraq, MARKETING, media, president, Time Magazine, White House

• Briefly... CITY/REGION

  - 2006-04-17

  Mag: Specter one of Senate's best, Bunning among worst Time magazine has named Philadelphia's Arlen Specter one of the 10 best U.S. senators. Specter, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, was cited for "principled contrarianism." Among Time's five worst senators is Phillies Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning,...

  Tags: FINANCE, Philadelphia, senator, Taxes, Time Magazine, U.S. Senate

• Reporter offers new time line for Rove's CIA disclosure

  - 2005-12-13

  WASHINGTON -- During much of 2004, Karl Rove's lawyer was on notice that his client, a senior aide to President Bush, might have disclosed Valerie Plame's CIA status to a Time magazine reporter. It wasn't until Time's Matt Cooper was under intense pressure from investigators to reveal his...

  Tags: CIA, Cooper, FINANCE, Investment, prosecutor, Time Magazine

• US talking to Sunni groups with insurgent ties: Hadley

  - 2005-12-04

  WASHINGTON AFP — US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad is talking to Sunni Muslim groups in Iraq with ties to insurgents about joining the political process, national security adviser Stephen Hadley said. Hadley, in an interview with CNN television, also said previously-announced talks between Khalilzad and Iranian officials would...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, ambassador, FINANCE, Investment, Iraq, Time Magazine, TVs

• Bush losing faith in Cheney, top aides

  - 2005-10-30

  WASHINGTON AFP — President George W. Bush's confidence in his top team of advisors, including all-important vice president Dick Cheney, has fallen sharply in the wake of the CIA leak scandal. In the wake of Friday's indictment of Cheney's top advisor for lying to a grand jury over the...

  Tags: advisor, aide, Bush, CIA, FINANCE, Investment, president, Time Magazine, White House

• US lost track of some nine billion dollars meant for Iraq's reconstruction

  - 2005-01-30

  WASHINGTON AFP — The former US-led Coalition Provisional Authority headed by American Paul Bremer lost track of nearly nine billion dollars it transferred to Iraqi government ministries to a black hole of fraud, kickbacks and fund misappropriation, according to Time magazine. In a report to hit US newsstands Monday,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, audit, FINANCE, fraud, Litigation, Time Magazine