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Dubai: what's ahead?
in Sox First, on November 29, 2009
...s a good take on how Dubai's creditors were taken in and fooled. The Economist writes: "Dubai’s debts are heavy, amounting to about $80 billion including the government and the conglomerates it cont...
Artists and capitalism
in Sox First, on November 28, 2009
...ey reach a certain level of affluence, they also start to buy art. Not only that, the art market is increasingly globalized so supply is on the increase. As The Economist notes: "In a globalised env...
Clearwire Raises $920 Million
in The Wireless Weblog, on November 27, 2009
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Clearwire this week announced that it has raised an additional $920 million in debt financing.
"The company had already nabbed $1.85 billion of senior secured notes due in 2015 to help...
The Dubai con job
in Sox First, on November 27, 2009
... how Dubai was likely to join Iceland and go broke. It's about to default on billions of dollars of debt accrued to create that bizarre financial center out in the middle of the desert. The news has s...
US to pay $500 billion to service mega debt
in Sox First, on November 23, 2009
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Earlier this month, I did a blog entry warning of worse times ahead with the US debt hitting $12 trillion. Just how bad is it going to get? As the New York Times warns, the US is now faci...
China with the most English speakers
in Sox First, on November 20, 2009
...lish-language speakers than India. Whereas an estimated 55 million speak English in India, China is increasing its English language speakers by 20 million a year. Why English? Because that's the lang...
Seen that? - Self-Employed have CPP Woes Bigger Problem is Income Taxes
in Small Business Unplugged, on November 19, 2009
...tives still be in power to follow through their plan? I hope so, because without a reduction if net debt our economy will become increasingly inefficient. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty Thursday releas... ...llow through their plan? I hope so, because without a reduction if net debt our economy will become increasingly inefficient. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty Thursday released the Tory economic vision a...
Seen that? - Infertility Drugs Requires Beta Estrogen Receptor Gene
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 19, 2009
...rm of estrogen can protect the brain from degeneration associated with multiple sclerosis, without increasing [...] Read More estrogen: safe to use for 50's women at Straigh...
Students Take to Online Gambling to End Their Debts
in The Gambling Weblog, on November 19, 2009
...Gambling advisory service GamCare has warned that students, in an effort to relieve their growing debts, are turning to online gambling and in particular poker . One US study has apparently found th...
Economy to get worse with debt hitting $12 trillion
in Sox First, on November 18, 2009
...im where the going is slower than expected . The US economy is facing a long hard haul back with debt levels now topping $12 trillion . That only adds to pressure on the economy from weak bank len...
New fair value rule to face test
in Sox First, on November 16, 2009
...ules dealing with the classification and measurement of financial assets, such as loans, as well as debt and equity securities using fair value. Sox First will remember how the banks were screaming ab...
Is China about to collapse?
in Sox First, on November 12, 2009
... up producing a massive amount of goods that it won't be able to sell. The big problem is China's debt. As Fortune magazine reports, Beijing has shoveled $1.27 trillion in new loans into the econo...
The Trade War That Wasn't
in China Venture News, on November 11, 2009
...mically and financially, Beijing is no less dependent on America as the primary market for its ever-increasing production. So, like the U.S., China has little motivation for a trade war. Author Tom Tr...
Seen that? - Sophos daily Top 10 hoaxes
in I got Spam?!, on November 10, 2009
...ghtmare if the security of customer data is breached. Experts predict that spam will become an ever increasing problem in 2008 as spammers come up with new ways to thwart spam [...] Read More ...
Exchange 2010 now available
in The CIO Weblog, on November 9, 2009
...e. Much of the emphasis on E10 internally during the development cycle, I am told, revolved around increasing features and robustness for its operation in a massive data center environment... Microso...
Backblaze Launches Business Online Backup
in On Storage, on November 7, 2009
...ro service - charge a flat rate for individuals but a per-gigabyte fee for businesses, potentially increasing their cost dramatically (and unpredictably)."
"Backblaze's primary selling-p...
Seen that? - Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable
in Googlestack, on November 2, 2009
... disclosure: I am a Hypertable MapReduce contributor, and this post has nothing to do with increasing publicity of the project, the opinions [...] Read More Open-source alternat...
Seen that? - CELEBRITY DOGS
in The Celebrities Weblog, on October 31, 2009
... high bidder notified on each day. First day bidding will begin at $100,000 with the initial price increasing on each successive day. In addition, there will be a Golden Clone Giveaway, where one luck...
Seen that? - PVR Comparison Chart
in The Wired Home Weblog, on October 28, 2009
... history according to your zip code. You can use the chart to track the pollens in your area are increasing or decreasing over time. You can thus check if there is a correlation between your flare-ups...
Pay Yourself First
in BootStrapMe, on October 27, 2009
... it’s hard. That money could be used someplace else. You could pay the phone bill, could pay down debt... The people at Get Rich Slowly look at the why and how of paying yourself first. And at the...
Dollar to tumble even more
in Sox First, on October 22, 2009
...enback highlights the parlous state of the US economy. The Economist writes: "A country heavily in debt to foreigners, with a government deficit it is making little headway at controlling, is creatin...
Seen that? - Columns versus Rows
in Googlestack, on October 22, 2009
... disclosure: I am a Hypertable MapReduce contributor, and this post has nothing to do with increasing publicity of the project, the opinions presented here are the opinions of my own One of t...
Endless unemployment and the new pledge of allegiance
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
...this report : "The new American Pledge of Allegiance: children, I pledge allegiance to America’s debt, and to the Chinese government that lends us money. And to the interest, for which we pay, compou...
PepsiCo and Anheuser-Busch cooperate in reducing supply chain costs
in Supplychainer, on October 19, 2009
...rating supplies.
The combined purchasing power allows both companies to cut costs at a time when increasing sales is not an option. Suppliers that are left out of the new purchasing arrangement wil...
Dubai can't meet debts
in Sox First, on October 13, 2009
...in this crisis. Now we have BusinessWeek reporting that Dubai does not have resources to pay its debts. The sheikdom and state-controlled companies cranked up $80 billion of debt building man-made ...
Offshoring surviving the recession just fine
in The CIO Weblog, on October 12, 2009
...fferings. At the same time, they have deepened industry expertise and improved internal processes, increasing customer satisfaction markedly and developing deeper relationships, partnerships, really,...
A system to let institutions fail
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
.... Writing in the Financial Times , Levitt says we need a system that ensures investors, long-term debt holders, lenders and management suffer pain commensurate with the risks they allowed an institu...
Your first Server
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on October 7, 2009
...between different computers, it might be time to invest in a server. Your information volume may be increasing because of more clients or more employees, but centralizing your data could save you time...
Lean IT bandwagon gains horses
in The CIO Weblog, on October 7, 2009
...The success of Lean manufacturing techniques in the industrial world has increasingly led to their application in other areas of the business, and the IT department looks like it may be the next objec...
California - America's first failed state?
in Sox First, on October 4, 2009
...nia is like a patient on life support. At the start of summer the state government was so deeply in debt that it began to issue IOUs instead of wages. Its unemployment rate has soared to more than 12%...
Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable
in Googlestack, on October 3, 2009
... disclosure: I am a Hypertable MapReduce contributor, and this post has nothing to do with increasing publicity of the project, the opinions presented here are the opinions of my own One of t...
Seen that? - Botnet hacker pleads guilty
in I got Spam?!, on October 2, 2009
... at I got Spam?! This past week saw a new botnet attack, increasing spam traffic by 600 percent. The botnet responsible is believed to have over 5 million no...
Seen that? - NBA's Marc Cuban Blogs his Plans to Launch Betting Hedge Fund
in The Gambling Weblog, on October 2, 2009
...on) into hedge funds this year. Chris Hitchen, Railpen chief executive, said they are planning on increasing their exposure from 5% to 8%, by having £1.4 billion ($2.7 billion) invested in hedge funds...
Tsunamis, climate change and the Olympics
in Sox First, on October 1, 2009
...nds of years, it is a fact, that the climate is changing, the Arctic is heating, and Ice Quakes are increasing, all due to human made pollution." If climate change is affecting the world like th...
Luxury hotels the latest victims of the recession
in Sox First, on September 25, 2009
...a $100 million loan is at risk of default. These hotels were financed aggressively on the oxygen of debt during the boom and now the chickens are coming home to roost. This is serious and dangerous. ...
Hyper inflation on its way?
in Sox First, on September 23, 2009
...in Wolf warns that "the U.S. government and British government will never mange their public debt problems. That means "there could be a real flight from these currencies and that would ge...
Arcane weekend technical link
in The CIO Weblog, on September 19, 2009
... relating drive density and hard error rates, a combination which he calculates will begin to cause increasing data loss during array rebuilds. As more data is stored more and more densely, this will ...
The financial meltdown and tell-tale emails
in Sox First, on September 15, 2009
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Should UBS be held accountable for selling toxic collateralised debt obligations? The Wall Street Journal reports that UBS staff knew these debt securities were bad and sent off emails making t...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
...d pooling them with slices of bonds comprised of low-risk mortgage securities. With the blessing of debt ratings agencies, banks are then selling this class of bonds as a low-risk investment. The mark... ...other relatively small firm, Bear Stearns, in March. Interconnectedness was the problem. And in our increasingly sophisticated and complex global financial system, it still is. How to eliminate that r...
Will the dollar be replaced?
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
... long? The US dollar is effectively being kept on life support by countries like China buying up US debt. It's only a matter of time before before they put pressure on the US to move to a global c...
The US consumer economy is dead
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
...he 1980s until a year ago is smashed. Once-ravenous U.S. consumers are saving money and paying down debt. Banks are building reserves and hoarding cash. And governments are fashioning a new global fin...
Commercial real estate to create a new mortgage crisis
in Sox First, on August 31, 2009
...;Banks hold $1.7 trillion of commercial mortgages and construction loans, and delinquencies on this debt already have played a role in the increase in bank failures this year. But banks' losses fr...
Up to 1000 more bank failures
in Sox First, on August 28, 2009
...t tripled in the last 12 months. There are now more than 400 and the list is growing. Bad loans are increasing with fewer able to repay and that's pushing up the amount of reserves banks have to a...
Who is buying up US debt?
in Sox First, on August 23, 2009
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Much has been said about China buying up US debt. China has accumulated the most US debt followed by Japan. But Caribbean countries? Luxembourg? They are in there among the top 10 debt holder...
Headed for the double dip
in Sox First, on August 20, 2009
...me. What that means is that the long term future is uncertain and we need to wind back the massive debt that got us into this mess in the first. There's no sign any of that's happened. As War...
Lease accounting trouble looms
in Sox First, on August 16, 2009
...ount of liabilities on a company's balance sheet. This might force some entities to renegotiate debt covenants. As Tammy Whitehouse writes in Compliance Week , the new rules will cause all sorts...
Health care reform and a fat tax
in Sox First, on August 16, 2009
...ion is fueling obesity. A German study, reported here , found that one in four people seriously in debt were also obese. Only 11% of the 9000 people studied were not in debt were obese. The researche...
Bankruptcies soar
in Sox First, on August 14, 2009
...vious year. Even scarier when you look carefully at the data and you see the number of bankruptcies increasing each month. This coincides with a report from Bloomberg that we are likely to see 1.4 ...
A Word of Caution about Balance Transfer Credit Cards
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 13, 2009
... Rueda
While balance transfer credit cards appear to be an ideal way to reduce your credit card debt, you need to be aware that it may not be all that simple. In order for you to save money and get...
The Need for Innovations: Interview with Aneesh Chopra, US Chief Technology Officer
in Web 2.0, on August 13, 2009
...lked about innovation. As America's first Chief Technology Officer, he hope that we will see an increasing level of innovation over the next few years.
TechCrunch covered Chopra's trip and...
Loan clinic the cure for mortgage ailments?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 13, 2009
...Pres. Barack Obama has put an increasing amount of pressure on mortgage companies to restructure the loans of homeowners who are struggling to make their monthly payments. Many homeowners, though, hav...
Five reasons consumers would pay for content
in Sox First, on August 10, 2009
...ews, I suspect it's still problematic with so much free content around. Indeed, free content is increasing and easier to find as filters like Google and Technorati are built to sort through and ta...
Spooks and the financial crisis
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
...uot; With the US wasting money on wars it cannot win in Iraq and Afghanistan when it is heavily in debt, it will be fascinating to watch the priorities of intelligence agencies develop....
What to do when those mortgage payments get hard to make
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 6, 2009
...age payments. It's hardly a surprise. The nation's unemployment rate is near 10 percent. An increasing number of workers are being forced to take unpaid days off. Those mortgage payments are a...
Want a good retirement? Pay off that mortgage loan first
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 3, 2009
...age loan. Financial experts say this is a mistake. It's far better to relieve yourself of extra debt before retiring.
So do yourself a favor. If you can pay off that mortgage — even if it m...
Onglyza: New Diabetes Drug, Approved By The FDA
in Daily Diabetic, on August 2, 2009
...ors affect the action of incretins, hormones that decrease elevated blood sugar levels (glucose) by increasing the body's utilisation of sugar, mainly through increasing insulin production in the ...
The looming credit card disaster
in Sox First, on July 28, 2009
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Credit card debt is the canary in the coal mine. It is the signal that tells us which way economies are tracking. And those signals are looking bad. USA Today reports that credit card debt is r...
More data that show an upswing in housing market
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 23, 2009
...ll suffering when compared to last year. But they are rising fairly steadily. Home sales, too, are increasing in most parts of the country .
Here's the good news in a nutshell: According to the ...
Banks misused TARP funds
in Sox First, on July 20, 2009
...program will reveal that of the 360 banks surveyed, nearly half had used the money to invest, repay debt or buy other banks. While most say they had used some of the money for loans, the revelations s...
Sun Shareholders Approve Oracle Acquisition
in Java Entrepreneur, on July 20, 2009
...le is set to acquire Sun for $9.50 per share in cash, or $5.6 billion including Sun's cash and debt...
Neither Sun Chairman Scott McNealy or Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz attended the meeting, a...
Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...isk trading and investing in everything from mortgages to commodities and underwriting of stock and debt offers. And that raises an obvious question: how long can they keep it up? Part of the success ...
Do you still have faith in Obama's stimulus plans?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 10, 2009
...which we are comfortable.
If you're holding onto your home and hoping to see it suddenly start increasing in value, you're going to have to wait a long time. There is no quick fix, unfortunat...
SouthWest NanoTechnologies Announces $3 Million in Funding
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 10, 2009
...bbie Blossom .
"Last year the company opened a new manufacturing facility in Norman , OK, increasing capacity 100× and lowering unit costs by 90%," according to Small Times . "The...
Did Palin quit to head off an embezzlement scandal?
in Sox First, on July 5, 2009
...e complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow." This stuff is politic...
Neverland's future: up for grabs
in Sox First, on July 4, 2009
...nch newsletter points out, Jackson was headed towards bankruptcy. He was believed to be paying 20% debt interest on approximately $270 million in loans or roughly $54 million per year and with insuff...
Jackson downloads soar
in Sox First, on July 1, 2009
...e estate or fix the financial problems. Jackson reportedly died more than half a billion dollars in debt and Associated Press reports he only had assets of just over $230 million. Which suggests th...
Sony Next to Release an iPhone Killer
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 29, 2009
...hat combines the functions of its portable gaming device (the PSP) with mobile phone features.
An increasing number of game developers including Capcom and Square Enix are now launching software on ...
Supply chain video: Massimo Marchi on supply chain risk and innovation
in Supplychainer, on June 29, 2009
...ing about risk management and innovation in supply chain.
Risks to global supply chains are increasing. In Massimo's opinion, US companies importing most of their product from Europe are p...
Michael Jackson's debt legacy
in Sox First, on June 27, 2009
...the pop icon was bogged down in controversy. But more to the point, he was trapped in a quagmire of debt. As The Wall Street Journal tells us, he left this world with $500 million in debt after def...
Type 2 Diabetes Overtreatment, Is It Really Safe??
in Daily Diabetic, on June 22, 2009
...provement in A1C."
In the said study, intensification of therapy was defined as starting or increasing the number of classes of oral antihyperglycemic medications or starting insulin.
Well...I...
