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- Wallstrip: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (FNM, FRE)
- Will the government save the day, or has the sun already set? Julie Alexandria summarizes the current mortgage mess.
- Videos 2008-07-21
- Tom Peters: Don't Sweat the Recession
- I've posted on some alarmist points of view regarding our economy. It only fits that I should post on Tom Peters' The Train Keeps on Rolling. He notes that despite decades worth of pronouncements of doom on America's position in the world economy, including his own,...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- "Crunch" Time
- Feel like you're running on an economic hamster wheel, powering an economy that benefits only a relative few? Jared Bernstein's "Crunch" is for you. So says reviewer Harry Hurt III in A Rock, A Hard Place and an Exit Strategy. Hurt walks through Bernstein's discussion...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Do Markets Have Morals?
- I think markets have blind spots, along with a certain caustic wit. But the Templeton Foundation has been funding research into what you might call the two sides of Adam Smith, melding the free-market capitalism of "The Wealth of Nations" with the moral philosophy of its predecessor, "The Theory...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Sovereign Wealth Funds: Benefit or Threat?
- Just when CEOs thought they had a handle on secretive and powerful hedge funds, they must consider a quieter but even bigger monster -- Sovereign Wealth Funds. These government-owned funds, including ones in China, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Singapore, represent more than $2.5 trillion in global assets,...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Expanding Overseas:The Best Small Markets
- Thanks to job growth and newfound political stability, these smaller markets present a big opportunity for U.S. and other western companies to expand. .expansionPic { width:324px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; padding:5px 5px 0; background:#edece7; border:1px solid #d4d4d4; } * html .expansionPic { display:inline; margin-top:20px;} ...
- Articles 2008-04-21
- Expanding Overseas: The Best Mid-Size Markets
- Relatively stable and foreigner-friendly, these growing mid-size markets offer expansion opportunities in regions less vulnerable to the current global economic slowdown. .expansionPic { width:324px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; padding:5px 5px 0; background:#edece7; border:1px solid #d4d4d4; } * html .expansionPic { display:inline; margin-top:20px;} .expansionPic p...
- Articles 2008-04-21
- Warren Buffett and the Return of the Railroads
- Sky-high energy prices, increasingly crowded commuter corridors, and worries about the environment are setting the stage for trains to thunder once again across the US moving commerce and people, predicts Harvard University professor John R. Stilgoe. “Train travel will supplant highway and air travel in the next few decades....
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- The Economy: A Grinding Five-Year Restructuring
- I made that pronouncement in my previous posting and now I'm being challenged to explain what I mean. I relish the opportunity. Â This is more than a one- or two-quarter recession. This is the end of a nearly 30-year cycle that started when Ronald Reagan took office...
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- How Developing Countries are Developing Medical Tourism
- The first time I heard about US folks outsourcing their heart surgery or hip replacement to doctors in India or China, it sounded crazy. But clearly the rise of "medical tourism" -- traveling to different countries to have a medical procedure done less expensively, more expediently, and in some cases...
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Learning How to Let Go
- Most of us spend our lives pursuing certainty—or we accept uncertainty in some areas of our lives and isolate those parts, pretending certainty exists outside them. Sadly, certainty is not our birthright, nor does it come with age and autonomy. Indeed, some would even say that certainty is an illusion.In...
- Articles 2007-11-09
- Wal-Mart to Buy Japanese Supermarket
- News is out today that Wal-Mart will spend $878 million to buy out the minority shareholders in Japanese supermarket Seiyu Ltd. The company already owns 51% of Seiyu and has always lost money -- by some accounts over $1 billion. So why would Wal-Mart throw more money at what appears...
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- How to be a Demographic Realist
- There's an interesting article in strategy+business called "How to be a Demographic Realist" that presents some false assumptions about retirement -- something 21 percent of the global population will need to think about by 2100, as opposed to 7 percent now. It's probably not news to you that the burgeoning senior population faces some challenges...
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- The Five Dangers of Parental Leave
- Leaving work to care for a new child can complicate your career. Here's how to avoid common problems. Danger: Turning into Baby Central Neutralizer: Keep kid-centric chatter to a minimum It's natural for you to be excited about a new baby or a...
- Articles 2007-05-29
- BNET Dispatch: March 19, 2007
- Airbus' A380 superjumbo jet, the world's largest passenger plane, made its U.S. debut today, as two of the jets landed in New York and Los Angeles. Airbus designed the aircraft to challenge Boeing's command in the large plane market. But due to several delays, Airbus has suffered billion dollars of...
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Hospital Mergers Are A Major Health Cost Driver
- Hospital mergers have been a major driver of runaway health spending over the past decade. But while the FTC and the Department of Justice are reconsidering their antitrust guidelines, it's unlikely they will be able to restrain further consolidation of hospitals. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-11-10
- Proposed Airport Insolvency Rules Diluted
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - The government on Tuesday watered down proposed new solvency rules for big airports which the industry had claimed would push up the cost of financing airport infrastructure projects.Plans for a "special administration regime" designed to ensure major airports stay open in the event of their operator...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Government Dilutes Proposed Airport Insolvency Rules
- By Myles Neligan and Tom FrekeLONDON (Reuters UK) - The government on Tuesday watered down proposed new solvency rules for big airports which the industry had claimed would push up the cost of financing development projects.The move is a boost for debt-laden airport operator BAA, a unit of Spanish construction...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Shell Still in Iraq Oil Talks - CEO
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Royal Dutch Shell RDSa is still in talks with the Iraqi government on fields that the country failed to award in a bidding round in June, its chief executive said on Tuesday.Peter Voser was asked whether Baghdad had approached Shell about entering new offers for contracts...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Initiatives for crisis-hit companies 'a mixed bag'
- A £1bn flagship innovation fund unveiled by Gordon Brown in June is unlikely to start lending money before next year, it emerged yesterday. Officials also revealed that the Treasury has agreed a provision of only £400m to cover a £2.3bn package of support for the car industry announced in...
- News items 2009-10-13
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