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The Dubai con job
in Sox First, on November 27, 2009
...w wrong were they? The New York Times paints an even worse picture of a kingdom on the brink of collapse. It reports: "With Dubai’s economy in free fall, newspapers have reported that more than 3,...
Detroit struggles to bury its dead
in Sox First, on November 22, 2009
... forced to turn to a charity to bury its dead. The tragedy of Detroit is that it symbolizes the collapse of the American Dream and University of Michigan economists see another two years of job l...
The last tuna?
in Sox First, on November 14, 2009
...vation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has been told that stocks of the giant bluefin tuna are close to collapse with catches in 2008 at three times the ICCAT limit. The problem is in the Mediterranean ...
Is China about to collapse?
in Sox First, on November 12, 2009
... and then making a fortune by betting against them. Now, he is predicting that China is about to collapse. Chanos argues that China has ramped up its production, giving itself a capacity that's mor...
Sen. Dodd's New Banking Bill Would Reshape the Financial World
in Bizinformer, on November 11, 2009
...eative structuring of financial derivatives, the credit crunch, record bank failures, and the collapse of financial institutions like Lehman Brothers.
There was little doubt that Congress would ev...
Waiting for the crash
in Sox First, on November 2, 2009
...e-roaring US economy sinking into the Great Depression. As we think back to the worst stock market collapse ever, it might be time to wonder whether we are headed for another major bust. That's the w...
Seen that? - Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse
in P2P File Sharing, on October 31, 2009
... Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse at P2P File Sharing The following may appear to have nothing to do with P2P. But it does. There is a...
The Big Whack: McDonald's pulls out of Iceland
in Sox First, on October 28, 2009
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The collapse of Iceland's economy has taken its toll on McDonald's which has announced it is pulling out of Iceland. That came after Icleand's currency, the krona, went into a tailspin, falli...
How the ratings agencies sold out investors
in Sox First, on October 19, 2009
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After helping to create the financial collapse by giving dodgy securities triple-A ratings, moves are afoot to bring ratings agencies into line with legislation designed to make them collecti...
A system to let institutions fail
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...ated the impact that would have on the market. Regulators misjudged the systemic importance of that collapse and the psychological fallout from its failure. They also made the mistake of assuming that...
California - America's first failed state?
in Sox First, on October 4, 2009
... "The state that was once held up as the epitome of the boundless opportunities of America has collapsed. From its politics to its economy to its environment and way of life, California is like a...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
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On the first anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, President Obama will be calling for quicker action on financial reforms. But will it have the desired effect? That's unlikely. Wal...
A big week for the US economy
in Sox First, on September 13, 2009
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Next weeks marks the anniversary of the turning point in the US economy with collapse of Lehman Brothers. And it's a big week ahead this week. In fact, this could be the make or break week fo...
Michael Moore's attack on capitalism
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
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He's back! Film director Michael Moore is now cashing in on the world's financial collapse with his latest film Capitalism: A Love Story. In the film, you can see him asking a congressional r...
The Kaiser-Frazer That Never Was? Or Was This the Pride of Willow Run?
in Classical Drives, on July 28, 2009
...nd Vagabond. I still find it hard to conceive that a huge auto manufacturing company could suddenly collapse but that's what they said about General Motors.
UPDATE: My good friend in Tokyo, Harle...
Copper and Steel
in China Venture News, on July 27, 2009
...#39;s probably not too much of an exaggeration to say that China could flood the copper market (and collapse the price) or choke it off (and raise the price) if they wanted too.
At the same time, Chi...
Making mortgages easier to understand
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 24, 2009
...Mortgage lenders have taken a lot of the blame for the collapse of the housing market. They approved borrowers who couldn't pay back their mortgage loans. They pushed other homebuyers to take out ...
US banks face more losses from commercial property collapse
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
... US banks. The banks have already lost billions in residential mortgages and business loans but the collapse of the commercial property market would devastate them and prolong the recession. Federal ...
E-mail traffic analysis reveals disruptions
in The CIO Weblog, on June 23, 2009
... volume increased and the correspondents became more insular approximately 1 month before the final collapse.
This is a more or less intuitive analysis of the situation; when things start to get hair...
The case against stock options
in Sox First, on May 22, 2009
...panies to consider switching back to options to reward executives. Unless you think the market will collapse again, options could turn out to be lucrative because there would be only one to go. But L...
I never thought it would get this bad: Rupert Murdoch
in Sox First, on May 6, 2009
...hey come before the market imploded and advertising revenues dried up following the Lehman Brothers collapse. And that's a warning to the rest of the media and their investors. It's going to g...
No recovery in sight
in Sox First, on April 30, 2009
...ays , there is nothing to celebrate. Any recovery is nowhere in sight. Schiff says: "With the collapse of the housing and stock markets, the surge in unemployment, and the fall in wages, the onl...
2009 全球品牌价值排行榜
in Wangtam, on 2009-04-30
美国研究机构 Millward Brown 日前发布的 2009 年度 BrandZ 全球品牌 100 强榜单显示，入围企业的品牌价值未受经济危机影响。而谷歌则在此次榜单中继续蝉联榜首。
尽管经济危机肆虐，但是明略行的报告却显示，全球排名前 100 位的品牌价值总额仍然维持在了 2 万亿美元的水平。Millward Brown 执行副总裁 Joanna Seddon 说："用户将当前的困境归咎于企业及其领导者，而非品牌。品牌是情感的纽带，它为用户创立，而且总的来看，品牌具有可持续的价值。"
在本次榜单中，Google 仍然蝉联全球最具价值品牌榜首，其次分别为微软、可口可...
What's Next For Sun?
in Java Entrepreneur, on April 10, 2009
...for an estimated $7 billion deal," writes SFGate's Deborah Gage .
"The deal's collapse after weeks of negotiations raises questions about Sun's next step, since the IBM offer ...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 11, 2009
.... BLACK : Absolutely, because they are scared to death. All right? They're scared to death of a collapse. They're afraid that if they admit the truth, that many of the large banks are insolven...
The Panic of 2008-09
in Sox First, on April 7, 2009
...here rates on call loans to brokerage houses soared to extremes. Warsh is talking about a complete collapse in trust and confidence and he acknowledges that it will take a long time before that's...
Giving banks permission to lie
in Sox First, on April 5, 2009
...ational reason no one wants to buy. And that is very dangerous because when the banks eventually do collapse, the losses will be so much greater. All you are doing is pretending that bad bank assets a...
Detroit's Beauty on the Lawns of a Mansion built by Matilda Dodge Wilson. Yes, that Dodge
in Classical Drives, on April 2, 2009
...in Detroit and honours the best in American design, especially when the industry is threatened with collapse. But the 2009 Meadow Brook Concours is more than a saving grace, dating back 30 years to ...
Japan's economic collapse
in Sox First, on March 30, 2009
The Japanese economy is sinking fast with the industrial output of the world's second biggest economy shrinking 9.4% . Last week, we had reports of retail sales in Japan falling 5.8% and Macquarie Securities has told Bloomberg that deflation has taken over again. Japan's finance mi...
Market soars as trade collapses
in Sox First, on March 24, 2009
... . While markets roared, the World Trade Organization has warned that we are facing a global collapse in world trade, the worst since World War Two. As the WTO says, the scary part is that it&#...
Google Chrome再次回到BETA
in WappBlog, on 2009-03-19
有生怀疑吗？不是Chrome已经跳出BETA变成正式版了吗？
根据来自 Chrome官方Blog的报道： google的Chrome浏览器将再次提供BETA版本。自从去年12月将Beta标记从浏览器的关于我中移除以来，官方一直提供Developper和Stable两个版本，这次，为了对新版本测试并取得使用者回馈，特地的发布了Beta版本。
根据介绍，这个新版本的最大特点是对速度的提升：相比较与目前的稳定版本，新的Beta版本，在V8 Benchmark测试中有25%的速度提升，Sunspider Benchmark中有35%的速度提升。
另外新增的Drag Tabs功能，可以将2个...
AIG's Contracts and Obama's Outrage
in Bizinformer, on March 16, 2009
...d to people in it's financial unit - the same people who were responsible for the company's collapse.
I heard a report today that contrasted white collar workers in the financial sector with ...
James Galbraith: Obama not solving the financial crisis
in Sox First, on February 28, 2009
...uld thus preserve the wealth of bank insiders and financial investors, while failing to prevent the collapse of the wealth of almost everyone else. I cannot believe that the American public will toler...
Blind over-optimistic analysts
in Sox First, on February 28, 2009
...ng, even after plenty of red flags, probably made the after-shocks to the financial system from the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. far worse than they should have been. Perhaps the biggest ...
The Great Depression Ahead by Harry S Dent
in Sox First, on February 21, 2009
... to 2012 will bring on the worst economic and banking crisis since the 1930s. Real estate will also collapse. He predicts there may well be a recovery in the second half of 2009, but that will fall ap...
The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R Morris
in Sox First, on February 20, 2009
... the point that the collateralised mortgage obligations crisis, the 1987 stock market crash and the collapse of Long Term Capital Management were a practice run for the meltdown. All reflected the shi...
Is Mexico still a viable near-shore location?
in Supplychainer, on February 19, 2009
...orce and indeed the world, two large and important states bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse: Pakistan and Mexico ." According to the report, violence and gangs exploding still e...
Japan's Economy Unravels
in Bizinformer, on February 17, 2009
...this way: Japan's economy contracted at the fastest pace in 35 years in the fourth quarter as a collapse in export demand drained life from the world's second-biggest economy. The short versio...
Asia's Budget Airlines Loving Recession
in The Flyaway Weblog, on February 15, 2009
...ing fuel costs and increased demand for cheap fares as full-service airlines struggle with a global collapse in consumer demand, according to a recent story by the Associated Press .
Asia 's ...
Startling predictions for 2009
in Sox First, on February 8, 2009
...eral deficit will balloon to at least $2 trillion, the Dow will plummet to 5500 and the real estate collapse will get worse. What we are talking about here is Depression, not Recession. Whether any o...
The Dystopians - Review
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 21, 2009
..., one should stop thinking of wealth in terms of money."
In his 2008 book, "Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects," Orlov identifies the ingredients of what h...
More bailouts on the way
in Sox First, on January 3, 2009
...#39;ll treat each potential bailout on a case by case basis, looking at such issues as how much the collapse would hurt creditors and counterparties, the degree to which that stress is caused by a dis...
Are we all Keynesians now?
in Sox First, on December 30, 2008
...me moralistic debate is with us, once again. Contemporary "liquidationists" insist that a collapse would lead to rebirth of a purified economy. Their leftwing opponents argue that the era of...
Madoff and SEC neglect
in Sox First, on December 13, 2008
...n commissions on the trades,' he says. "The lessons of Long-Term Capital Management's collapse are that investors need, or should want, transparency in their money manager's investme...
China slowdown continues
in Sox First, on December 11, 2008
... unrest in the world's most populous nation. The other big worry is that this will result in a collapse in global trade. If that happens, it would make the the worldwide economic slump even worse...
Entellium files Chapter 11; Intuit hopes to pick up the pieces
in The CIO Weblog, on December 3, 2008
...ith relatively little notice, but some tools to retrieve their data at least. So far, the Entellium collapse has been handled with similar grace, particularly considering the circumstances; the compan...
Cheap oil and global risk
in Sox First, on November 22, 2008
... Guardian warns that the tumbling oil price would push Russia into a new economic crisis and total collapse. "The oil slump, however, exacerbates Russia's already severe economic problems. S...
US market: it's back to 1997
in Sox First, on November 21, 2008
...rash. And Bill Clinton was riding high. US stocks and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index have collapsed, plunging to the lowest level since 1997. Bloomberg says the collapse comes as writedown...
Meltdown: suicides on the increase
in Sox First, on November 8, 2008
...dn't be hired by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., which was about to buy his firm. The Bear Stearns collapse broke his spirit. But could this be a sign of things to come? Now there are warnings tha...
Obama's to-do list
in Sox First, on November 8, 2008
... make withdrawals from retirement plans. And energy companies might be on his hit list although the collapse in the price of oil might make that a moot point....
ICI Offers Alternative to Pickens Plan
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 17, 2008
...pany says, in self-sustaining financial communities which are not as vulnerable to global financial collapse.
In September ICI announced an alternative to the Pickens Plan called Operation Energy Tra...
Financial ethics and the meltdown
in Sox First, on October 15, 2008
...len Baker has some interesting insights in his piece Financial ethics: Learning from chaos after a collapse of trust . "It has been created by companies that began to believe in a form of busin...
Entellium fallout
in The CIO Weblog, on October 9, 2008
...cting us now from what was at the forefront of people's minds last week: how will the financial collapse of the service affect customers (although apparently there were fewer of those than we had ...
Did the short selling ban make any difference?
in Sox First, on October 9, 2008
...s a disaster waiting to happen. There is no point blaming the short sellers. If a stock is going to collapse, it's going to collapse.
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Nokia believes in DRM...
in Digital Music - The Future, on October 8, 2008
...ully shutdown it's DRM music service... nokia is set to start one up!
Not learning from the collapse and turnaround of many other online stores, Nokia is launching a DRM based music service fo...
Iceland close to collapse
in Sox First, on October 7, 2008
If Americans think they're doing it hard in this crisis, spare a thought for the folk in Iceland. The "Land of Fire and Ice" is close to bankruptcy because of the taste for debt, and the fact that its banks are so powerful, with liabilities worth almost 10 times the country's g...
Free £5000 supplier failure cover
in Wandalust, on October 1, 2008
...on through them a £5000 supplier failure insurance backed guarantee. In the light of the recent collapse of the Zoom airline and the XL group it's a wise move to ensure that you won't be lef...
Who says IT is at fault in the financial crisis?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 30, 2008
...oint when plenty of people inside and outside the industry were warning of the potential for such a collapse for going on a year now. Clearly sufficient information was available, and decipherable to ...
Bailout fails - what now?
in Sox First, on September 30, 2008
...Wall Street and the power elites. Still, the politicians can't just sit back and let the system collapse. So what happens now? First, with the prospect of more banks going under, the Bush admini...
The Melamine in China's Milk
in China Venture News, on September 28, 2008
Well, I've tried to ignore this story, but I suppose the time has come to comment on it...
WaPo had a story in their Sunday paper. In China you can take your child to the hospital and have its kidneys tested for free. According to the Post article: Despite official assurances that the problem...
US - the end of superpower status?
in Sox First, on September 26, 2008
...than its connectedness would be devastating at a time when the country faces two wars, a financial collapse unseen since 1929, commodity inflation, a huge transfer of resources to the Middle East, and...
Washington Mutual - another one bites the dust
in Sox First, on September 26, 2008
...in $188 billion worth of deposits and conservative risk management were supposed to protect it from collapse. That was not the case with regulators seizing its assets and selling them to JP Morgan Ch...
Lehman's Hong Kong Chaos
in China Venture News, on September 17, 2008
... CNN Money ran a piece yesterday on the chaos that the collapse of Lehman Brothers brought to Hong Kong... Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH) suspended trading, investment banking and brokerage ...
Black Sunday fallout
in Sox First, on September 16, 2008
...other reason to keep falling." This is going to take a long long time to unwind. Lehman's collapse is going to affect millions of people, even if it does that indirectly. The reason is simpl...
The tanking banks
in Sox First, on September 15, 2008
...ld bank that survived railroad bankruptcies of the 1800s, the Great Depression in the 1930s and the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management a decade ago. The news came after bailout talks collapsed. ...
Pay for your flights by credit card - better safe than sorry
in Wandalust, on September 10, 2008
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n the wake of recent airline collapses such as Zoom and Silverjet I'd advise UK residents to pay for their flight tickets by credit card. if they are booking their flights inde...
Fannie and Freddie fallout
in Sox First, on September 9, 2008
...that? Let's cut to the chase: this bailout was about saving the name and credit of the US. The collapse of one or both of the home mortgage giants later this year would have spelled disaster. The...
American Express Considering Your Housing Market When Giving Out Credit
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 18, 2008
...oto courtesy of iStockphoto, Bart Coenders
One of the unhappy side effects of the housing market collapse/credit crisis is that many innocent people have to suffer, too. For one, your house is prob...
Yahoo 公布年度股东大会对所有候选董事的重选结果
in Wangtam, on 2008-08-03
Yahoo 于昨天宣布了年度股东大会对所有候选董事的重选结果，以及股东还投票通过了指定普华永道作为 Yahoo 独立注册会计师事务所的提案，投票结果为 1,021,286,375 股支持、9,952,603 股反对、 14,856,606 股弃权；否决了高管薪酬的"优异表现奖励"原则，结果为 339,808,082 股支持、681,650,539 股反对、 24,636,963 股弃权；不同意设立互联网审查制度及创建董事会人权委员会的提案，对后一提案的投票结果为 41,874,370 股支持、 932,055,232 股反对、72,165,982 股弃权。
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Stephouse Networks Announces Muni Wi-Fi in Portland, Oregon
in The Wireless Weblog, on July 14, 2008
...olitical the provisioning of free or nearly free municipal Wi-Fi services has become, thanks to the collapse of the advertising-supported business model envisioned by vendors such as MetroFi and Eart...
