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Glass-Steagall and the market meltdown
in Sox First, on November 13, 2009
...a economics czar Larry Summers, Gary Gensler, then a treasury undersecretary, today the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gene Sperling, then head of Clinton's National Economics Coun...
Goldman Sachs and God
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
...mic adviser to the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton (Robert Hormats); the chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Gary Gensler); the under-secretary of state for economic, business...
Waiting for the crash
in Sox First, on November 2, 2009
...n the Financial Times where he says the marked rally in risky assets - equities, oil, energy and commodity prices - combined with a sharp drop in the dollar, tightening credit and and increase in b...
Apache CouchDB als Beta-Version
in PHP-Developer-Blog, on 16.10.09
...agement Systems) zu vereinen. Der Name CouchDB ist dabei ein Backronym für »Cluster of unreliable commodity hardware Data Base«, oder frei übersetzt für »Cluster von unzuverlässiger Standardhardware D...
Only 5% will pay for online content
in Sox First, on September 23, 2009
...ve also explained why it won't work in my column here . Put simply, people won't pay for a commodity like news when they can get free on the Internet. Now a new study from Harris Interactive...
Will the dollar be replaced?
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
Gold and oil are now the hot commodities and that's driving the US dollar down to new depths. Oil has now moved past $71 a barrel and gold is now pushing to $1000 an ounce and is tipped to stay there. Investors are now headed for the safe ground, and they're selling out of the US d...
Double dip recession looming
in Sox First, on August 24, 2009
...prices are now rising faster than economic fundamentals warrant. That's being driven largely by commodity traders cashing in on the lift in markets and making big bucks with their trades. Get rea...
Dirty oil
in Sox First, on August 22, 2009
...dipping into another recession in 2010. The only reason oil is rising is because of speculation by commodity trader traders, according to this report . Part of the problem is we don't know how ...
Hog farmer horrors
in Sox First, on August 17, 2009
...ince the Depression years of the 1930s. According to Bloomberg , hog futures are the second-worst commodity investment of 2009 and they might fall 33% and there's absolutely no light at the end ...
Does the Microsoft-Yahoo deal make sense?
in Sox First, on July 30, 2009
...y should have been plowing into search innovation. Clearly it matters, search isn't such just a commodity, if in the end they need to use Bing." The problem with the deal, as I see it, is th...
Copper and Steel
in China Venture News, on July 27, 2009
...lpha had a couple of interesting pieces earlier this month on how China is impacting two particular commodity markets - copper and steel .
Chna has come close to cornering the market on copper. En...
The new carbon bubble
in Sox First, on July 12, 2009
...n targets." As Martha C White at Reuters points out, there are serious concerns whether the Commodity Futures Trading Commission can handle the job. "A big reason the real estate crash wa...
Google releases an OS after all
in The CIO Weblog, on July 9, 2009
...inistrative cost. Chrome OS should provide a standardized, reliable client-side platform running on commodity hardware, reducing support costs.
For CIOs still stuck with or in the thick client paradi...
China's supply chain challenge: Mitigating supply risk
in Supplychainer, on July 6, 2009
...Supply Chain Council , other risk factors for China cited in the survey include volatile energy and commodity prices. Noha Tohamy, vice president of research at AMR, notes that this "creates a di...
Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 1)
in Supplychainer, on July 1, 2009
...n perspectives, inflation will be a problem because many of the sources and organizations producing commodity are going down. That of course means bad news for procurement officers so they need to thi...
Beware the China bubble
in Sox First, on June 29, 2009
...cal governments ultimately will be willing or able to bear." If that's right, China's commodity speculators are just using cheap money to speculate and the spring recovery will be expose...
Elevator pitch for the social enterprise
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 25, 2009
...Have you ever heard the term "Elevator Pitch"? Well the term is certainly a commodity in entrepreneurship world and refers to the following situation: Imagine you are in the elevator with a big time i...
Could This be the Future of Outsourcing?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on June 9, 2009
...tions.
I have long thought that outsourcing projects could be susceptible to reverse auctions. In commodity-level sourcing, a project can be positioned in the marketplace and prospective bidders can ...
Pay cuts fail to save HP jobs
in The CIO Weblog, on May 28, 2009
...on. Services are the future for major hardware companies which are watching their hardware become a commodity, and HP is making the transition more boldly and successfully than most....
Finally
in The CIO Weblog, on May 19, 2009
...? Or do you see the possibilities on the horizon, with the rapid expansion of utility computing and commodity services, and want to keep your options open?
It will be an unconventional choice for tho...
Bad retail figures expose recovery myth
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
...the outstanding inventory continues to be very high. Moreover, there is a risk that the increase in commodity prices might choke off a sustainable recovery if it weighs on industrial production and co...
Oil shock ahead
in Sox First, on March 28, 2009
...t be a small recovery next year if there are comprehensive and co-ordinated global policies, and if commodity prices remain low. So far, there's been no sign of global co-ordination. Add to that ...
Market soars as trade collapses
in Sox First, on March 24, 2009
... to purchase durable goods such as automobiles while they attempt to rebuild their savings. Falling commodity prices, while a boon to consumers in importing countries, have also deprived oil-producing...
Global recession: no co-ordination, no end.
in Sox First, on March 20, 2009
...hat the US housing market will bottom out and that there will be sharply lower oil and other major commodity prices. "However, in the event of further delays in implementing comprehensive polici...
The Great Depression Ahead by Harry S Dent
in Sox First, on February 21, 2009
...cond half of 2009, but that will fall apart because of inflationary pressures, interest rates and a commodity bubble. That's when the worst of the Depression will hit, continuing on and off until ...
Oil price futures
in Sox First, on January 21, 2009
...e is that today there are no large-scale next generation projects that are going to save the world. Commodity demand is exponentially higher than it was." If you haven't already, it might be...
Fixing the financial system
in Sox First, on January 12, 2009
...s, insurance companies, mortgage companies, hedge funds, finance companies, thrifts, credit unions, commodity firms, brokerage firms, prime brokers, derivative and futures markets dealers, and banks n...
Climate change chain of command
in Sox First, on January 6, 2009
...e opportunities that are opened up with, for example, the trading of permits creating a buoyant new commodity market. The result might be a piecemeal approach that enables companies to identify isola...
Mini-Server
in The CIO Weblog, on December 31, 2008
...lot to recommend it, although for web services I still think you have better bang for the buck with commodity Linux machines (although opinions vary ). But when people talk about OS X Server, they ar...
Supply chain risk trends for 2009
in Supplychainer, on December 31, 2008
...rtners and reduce the number of potential "weak link" suppliers.
Volatility in energy, commodity, labor rates and currency exchange. Companies need to factor into their decisions potenti...
IP infringement is the new risk category in SCM
in Supplychainer, on December 29, 2008
... The other categories on the top of the list included:
1. Energy costs
2. Transportation costs
3. Commodity prices
4. Intellectual property infringement
5. Supplier product quality failures
6. Lower...
China: from inflation to deflation
in Sox First, on December 11, 2008
...which means basically that China has shifted from inflation to deflation in less than a year. With commodity prices in free fall, we can expect to see China's CPI falling below zero, and that'...
GM Dumps Tiger
in Eagle Par Birdie, on November 24, 2008
...gaining steam and consumers have zipped their wallets shut, where economies are grinding to a halt, commodity prices are plunging (gas prices in the U.S. have fallen for 68 straight days, now) and the...
Supply chain tech market growing, AMR founds
in Supplychainer, on November 24, 2008
... and company margins through cost control and increased efficiencies in their operations.
- Rising commodity prices - Pressure from higher commodity prices will bring supply more in line with demand ...
MS Society to Benefit from WSOP Main Event Chip Leader
in Internet Poker, on October 17, 2008
...okerStars.net sponsored player, the chip leader Dennis phillips , will be considered the hottest commodity at the table. Given his chip advantage to win it all and probable length of air time on th...
China Stock Investors Get New Rules
in China Venture News, on September 29, 2008
... help turn China's markets around.
Short selling is the practice of borrowing a security (or commodity futures contract) from a broker and selling it, with the understanding that it must later ...
US - the end of superpower status?
in Sox First, on September 26, 2008
... 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 the imperative to develop n...
Survey on reverse outsourcing to the U.S. and Europe
in Supplychainer, on September 12, 2008
...d China. Among them we can refer to:
- Current trends in currency exchange rates
- Increasing commodity costs
- Escalating labor costs in previously lower-cost countries
- Higher price of oil wh...
Vaccine Allergies
in Allergies, on September 11, 2008
...Pardon the temporary hiatus. With a new baby in the house, blogging time has become a very precious commodity lately. I've brought my baby for her second round of immunizations the other day and s...
OpenSolaris Storage keeps rolling along
in On Storage, on August 24, 2008
...bite the bait when money is involved. And why shouldn't they? Openness, virtualization, and commodity hardware is here to stay. Quick to deploy, easy to manage, and robust are the claims and r...
JP Morgan, Wachovia and UBS burning billions
in Sox First, on August 13, 2008
...ent guru Gary Hamel talk about the US banks today. And he was savage. Forget all this talk about commodity prices and the US dollar. The name of the game is the US housing crisis and the banks that...
Sun OpenSSO Express: Industry's First Enterprise Support for Open Source Identity Management
in Java Entrepreneur, on July 24, 2008
...easing new version every three months offering access to some of the latest technologies in OpenSSO commodity. Existing or new customers with Sun Java Identity Management Suite and Sun Java System Acc...
China Syndrome
in Sox First, on July 17, 2008
...9;s a problem because in the end, it will result in reduced demand. That will in turn see a fall in commodity prices. The numbers coming out of China might be a warning for the global economy....
Frontier Markets Fund Launch
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 14, 2008
...lex Akesson on Friday, CEO of DanFonds, Daniel Broby, referred to 'peak oil', and the 'commodity super cycle' and also how the writing off of debt by the Paris club has opened the mark...
Financial crisis to get worse - George Soros
in Sox First, on July 5, 2008
...y." Soros says hedge funds should subject to higher minimum stakes, if they plan to invest in commodity markets, and pension funds shouldn't be allowed to go near there. That's one way t...
Internet Advertising on the Rise
in BlogWealth, on June 18, 2008
...ut great news for bloggers. The ad space on our blogs has become and will continue to be a valuable commodity!
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The Great Hardware debate
in The CIO Weblog, on June 10, 2008
...No, it's not Dell versus HP. Or Apple versus everyone else. It's cheap, commodity hardware versus expensive, specialized hardware.
This has always been a point of debate in any sort of hardwa...
The oil squeeze
in Sox First, on May 29, 2008
...o account surging demand for oil in China and India, the falling value of the dollar, the impact of commodity price speculation by energy traders and a whole constellation of factors exerting steady d...
People: The bootstrappers commodity
in BootStrapMe, on April 19, 2008
...US Business Journal Online .
There are several reasons bootstrappers rely on people as their chief commodity both to start a company and create growth:
• Time is money. The bootstrapper's own t...
Top Ten Lipper Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 10, 2008
...n China fund in the emerging markets space;
Di Tomasso Equilibrium Trading Program fund in the CTA Commodity Trading Advisors category;
Molnir Market Neutral fund in the equity market neutral catego...
Google makes its move
in The CIO Weblog, on April 8, 2008
...now that it makes extensive use of proprietary tools to enable thousands (perhaps millions, now) of commodity, off the shelf servers serve as a single, massively parallel processing system with gobs a...
Complimentary Educational Webinar Series on Alternative Investments
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 3, 2008
... review future legislation and delve into emerging opportunities.
Triple Point recently announced Commodity XL for BiofuelsTM and has tremendous knowledge of the requirements for biofuels trading, r...
Carbon world of 2028
in Sox First, on March 19, 2008
...arbon trading market worth trillions of dollars. In one sense, it will be very much like other commodity markets like oil and coal. But the big difference will be that it will cover all businesse...
5 Reasons Why The Game Reggie Mentioned will be Kid Icarus
in House of Nintendo, on March 16, 2008
...d. Kid Icarus gives you the advantage of "new" IP while keeping the edge of being a known commodity.
3. Kid Icarus lends itself to action adventure, a powerful genre in gaming today and on...
Las Vegas History
in Play Las Vegas, on February 24, 2008
...e a gambling Mecca it was basically a stop along the way east and west for, of all things, water, a commodity that is now in short supply.
Early attempts to turn the area into a religious farming com...
Currency Strengths and the Demand for Raw Materials
in China Venture News, on February 23, 2008
...that "China's unending economic boom is one of the prime factors behind the global rise in commodity prices." "Okay; so what," I thought. He says it's simple: "those c...
How to Get a Job in Mexico
in Latina Viva, on February 15, 2008
...versity. Just get over your stage fright, take the training they offer, and sell that intentional commodity swirling around in your head: English. It'll buy you time to design your life, and who k...
Amazon gives start ups the scale of multi billion dollar IT systems - Virtualization for 10 cents
in TJ's Weblog, on February 3, 2008
...be fixed by simply adding nodes to the system.
* Inexpensive: Amazon S3 is built from inexpensive commodity hardware components. As a result, frequent node failure is the norm and must not affect th...
A Fancy Way of Saying Cheap, the Nokia 2600 Classic, and Nokia 1209
in The Smart PDA, on January 25, 2008
...ok , "Meatball Sundae," Mr. Godin writes about the need for remarkability:
Meatballs are commodity products, built in a factory, advertised all over. Stuff we need. All the same. Average pr...
Bootstrapping your business today
in BootStrapMe, on January 18, 2008
...iled plan could be created.
Well, it was felt at the time that business ideas weren't really a commodity on line, so I switched to a blog dealing with how to go about launching some of those good...
Tips for surviving the recession
in Sox First, on December 27, 2007
... is still under pressure from high food and gas prices, the Federal Reserve is hemmed in because of commodity inflation and corporate profits are decreasing. This is not a good picture going into the ...
Tiger's World: It Gets Bigger and Bigger
in Eagle Par Birdie, on December 9, 2007
...er Woods.
Woods has now gone beyond a wealthy PGA Tour pro with a global following; he is a global commodity, representative of the new corporatization of the world's economies.
Bill Elliott, wh...
Business worried about climate change
in Sox First, on December 6, 2007
...itical and legal debates over the last year, carbon is set to become one of the world's biggest commodity markets, businesses around the world are coming under increasing regulation controlling gr...
Azyxxi: The big hospital information system with the funny name
in The CIO Weblog, on November 15, 2007
...ly a year ago) it integrates impressively with a variety of sources of information. Because it uses commodity hardware and software, and because it doesn't propose to replace every existing system...
Hedge Funds Top Averages In 5 Years
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 13, 2007
...turns up +3.32% in October 2007.
The hedge funds excellent performance wasn't limited to commodity related strategies, several equity related strategies outperformed broad equity benchmarks...
ISP Billing By The Byte?
in Networking for Pros, on November 2, 2007
... from a larger provider. ISP customers are limited because the ISPs are also limited.
The largest commodity access providers already charge on the usage model, offering a per-Mb price for access to ...
As CIOs ride off into the sunset...
in The CIO Weblog, on October 31, 2007
... in-house. And that, if nothing is, is the role of CIO, isn't it? As Dave says, IT may become a commodity, but someone still has to be knowledgeable enough to make a good buy in a commodity market...
Gibraltar Hedge Fund Launch
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 29, 2007
...stage mining plays and other natural resources, projects which are not dependent on fluctuations in commodity prices to generate returns, according to Hedge Fund Review Magazine .
It is particularl...
Firefighting IT
in The CIO Weblog, on October 26, 2007
...ts have been used for years to develop intelligence on wildfires, but we're starting to see how commodity products and general purpose communications applications are being quickly adapted to fill...
Chief carbon officers
in Sox First, on October 18, 2007
.... Not any more. There is now a growing recognition that it is set to become the world's biggest commodity market. Potentially, it could be the world's biggest market overall. Certainly, it wil...
