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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.
Tags: housing bubble, real estate, beatles, john lennon, david hasselhoff, kids in the hall, bernanke, bubble, icarus, ali, kramer, paulson, fre, fnm, freddie mac, nyse, nasdaq, investing, invest, stock stock exchange, stocks, julie alexandria, howard lindzon, Software, Enterprise Software, Vertical Industries, Finance, Capital Structures, Government, Mortgages, Fannie Mae, wallstrip, subprime mortgage
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,...
Tags: Economy, Tom, Government, Venture Capital, Vertical Industries, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Fitzgerald
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...
Tags: Economics, Bernstein, Benefits, Health Care, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Michael Fitzgerald, Human Resources, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Healthcare, Globalization
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...
Tags: Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Investment, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Economics, Benefits, Retirement Plans, 401(k), Paul J. Zak, Michael Fitzgerald, Finance, Software
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,...
Tags: Software, Peter Galuszka, U.S., Fund, Hedge Fund, Government, Investment, Financial Services, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Finance, Benefit
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;} ...
Tags: Rwanda, Jennifer Alsever, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Vertical Industries, U.S., Gross Domestic Product, Free Trade, Government, Kenya, Real Estate Price, Rwanda Rwanda, Vietnam, Garcia, World Bank, Peru, Real Estate, Kazakhstan, Business, Investment, China, Business Operations, Risk Assessment, Business Expansion, International, BNET Feature
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...
Tags: United Arab Emirates, BNET Feature, Software, Enterprise Software, Vertical Industries, Financial Planning, Finance, Free Trade, Taxes, Government, Tax Rate, Singapore, Latin America, Business, Chile, Dubai, Gross Domestic Product, U.S., GDP, Banking, Internet, Jennifer Alsever, International, Business Expansion, Financial Services
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....
Tags: Vertical Industries, Investment, Government, Sign, Railroad, Warren Buffett, Stock, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Sean Silverthorne
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.  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...
Tags: William J. Holstein, Home Entertainment, Finance, Software, Enterprise Software, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Quality, Games, Government, Stimulus, Financial Accounting, TVs, Vertical Industries
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...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Finance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Free Trade, Developing Country, India
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...
Tags: Life, Productivity, Workforce Management, Investment, Human Resources, Finance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, BNET Editorial
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...
Tags: WMT, Government, Construction, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Financial Accounting, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Jessica Stillman, News, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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...
Tags: Finance, Software, Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Investment, Vertical Industries, Financing, Retirement, Human Resources, Lori Deschene
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...
Tags: Workforce Management, Financial Accounting, Payroll Solutions, Healthcare, Sales Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Vertical Industries, Telecommuting, Wage Replacement, Pregnancy, Leave, Boss, Enterprise Software, Software, Career, Sales, Finance, C.C. Holland, human resources, workplace, benefits, parental leave, Family and Medical Leave Act, Recruitment &Amp, Selection, BNET Feature
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...
Tags: Airbus S.A.S., Benefits, Daimler AG, Disney Corp., Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Accounting, Health Care, Healthcare, Human Resources, Investment, Joseph De Avila, Patient, Pixar Animation Studios Inc., Software, Steve Jobs, Stock Option, Stock Options, Stock Options & Grants, U.S., Vertical Industries
Blog posts 2007-03-19
Britain ready to co-fund GM Europe spin-off
Britain is ready to provide loans or loan guarantees to finance the spin-off of General Motors' European Opel/ Vauxhall arm, UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said on Friday.GM is seeking about ?500m of loans from Britain in addition to funds from other European countries that host its car plants....
Tags: U.K., Britain, General Motors Corp., Magna International Inc., Opel, Government, Financial Accounting, Vertical Industries, Finance, Company News, Demerger, General News, Mergers & Acquisitions, People, Financial Times
News items 2009-07-03
Opting Out Of Health Insurance
The article details various policy measures, which could be taken by the Human Resource Department for keeping themselves out of insuring employees against Health Hazards. The various cases studies discuss different measures that could be taken in cases where employees are not willing to take the insurance policies.
Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care, IPMA-HR, Insurance, Financial Planning, Benefits, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software
Case studies 2002-01-06
Inflation and the Size of Government
Inflation is significantly positively related to the size of government mainly when periods of war and peace are compared. The paper discusses that a weak positive peacetime time-series correlation between inflation and the size of government and a negative cross-country correlation of inflation with non-defense spending. Read on for more...
Tags: Inflation, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Government, Vertical Industries, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-01-01
Helping Governments Keep Their Promises - Making Ministers And Governments More Reliable Through Improved Policy Management
This paper seeks to examine some institutional causes of "executive policy unreliability", the term used to elaborate the phenomenon of government promise-breaking, and to set out what is known about technical interventions that can, in some, but certainly not in all circumstances, assist. The paper identifies the content of...
Tags: Policy Management, World Bank Group, Promise, Government, Free Trade, Vertical Industries, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-04-01
Measuring Healthcare Online ROI
This case study gives the details of e-health care the question of Return on Investment ROI, and how to measure this, is being raised. When looking at this, the overall business model should be examined - not simply sales and marketing efforts. Traditional ROI frameworks may need to be...
Tags: ROI, Business Model, Health Care, Roi/Tco, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
Case studies 2000-07-19
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