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Suddenly more bullish on housing?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 14, 2009
Maybe there is something to that old "American Dream," after all. How else to explain that even as the residential real estate industry suffers through a catastrophic slump, U.S. residents still profess faith in the value of housing?
You'd think that most homeowners today — and ...
Netbooks may be the new mobiles
in The CIO Weblog, on July 6, 2009
...at netbook fleet deployment might best be outsourced, just as is sometimes done with phones. If the economics are similar, the CFO is certain to be looking into the idea even if the CIO isn't wild...
Criticism starts to catch up to AppEngine
in The CIO Weblog, on July 3, 2009
...lutions, while advocates point out that software failures in any venue are hardly unique and that economics, if nothing else, dictate that these solutions will improve and dominate the future of sof... ... individual employees came from) reflects that. They are famously reluctant to put out anything and commit to standing behind it in ways that the enterprise can count on. Getting an effective SLA out ...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
... governments and companies". "Candidates with a bachelor's or master's degree in economics, finance, business administration, international management, or economic crimes management...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...subsequently shattered the global economy. That's just not good enough. As New York University economics professor Lawrence White told the New York Times : "It's the equivalent of grabb... ...ds whose assets exceed a certain size will be required to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As I said, it all makes sense and is long overdue. But will it get through? Let's n...
Creative Commons Images: Coming to a Search Engine Near You...
in The Search Engine Weblog, on June 11, 2009
...has long had a search tool designed to filter images so that you only see the ones with Creative Commons licenses. A few weeks ago Yahoo! added a similar tool . Now Google wants to get in on that...
Cutting Salaries
in Biz Plan Hacks, on June 6, 2009
...ay rather than making more layoffs. One of them is Dan Ariely, the author of the popular behavioral economics book Predictably Irrational, and a professor at Duke University. He believes that in the r... ...d off limits for salaried managers and professionals, base pay reductions are becoming increasingly common in today's brutal recession. Many human resources experts believe the recent moves by maj...
Washington University launches new master in supply chain from September 2009
in Supplychainer, on May 31, 2009
...rogram is "designed to appeal to students with undergraduate degrees in business, engineering, economics, mathematics or science." The specialized degree will also be available to students i...
President at the Pump
in carzz.org, on May 20, 2009
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Seeking an authoritative source, I looked to Kenneth Medlock , a fellow in energy and resources economics with Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and an adjunct professor of e...
The problem with economists
in Sox First, on May 18, 2009
...nomists. What's more, these are the people who had access to power. A recent paper prepared by economics academics in the United States, Germany, Denmark and France, sheds light on the hubris of ... ...ard the key elements driving outcomes in real-world markets. The economics profession has failed in communicating the limitations, weaknesses, and even dangers of its preferred models to the public…It...
Times' reporter's story a reminder: It's easy to fall into foreclosure nightmare
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 15, 2009
...as intrigued, then, by a story my wife forwarded me yesterday. It was written by Edmund Andrews, an economics reporter at the country's top newspaper, the New York Times.
What is intriguing is th... ... move into what they thought was a dream house.
The story takes a lot of twists and turns, and I recommend that every homeowner or aspiring homeowner read it, but in the end, the couple stops paying ...
The 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China is Making China Visas Hard to Get
in Global Mobility Report, on May 10, 2009
...ost important, is that the Chinese government will nearly always place politics and stability over economics. ...
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
...book , the University of California's Akerlof and Shiller, best-selling author and professor of economics at Yale University, argue that that economists have ignored these forces and have dismisse...
No recovery in sight
in Sox First, on April 30, 2009
With the US economy convulsing in its sharpest contraction since 1958 . down 6.1%, the Fed now seems to be sitting on the side lines. In its latest statement , the Fed said the economic outlook had improved "modestly" but that economic activity was "likely to remain weak for a t...
The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson
in Sox First, on April 29, 2009
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What do pirates have to do with economics? Plenty, according to economist Peter Leeson in his book The Invisible Hook . Leeson starts out looking at the most fundamental of economic texts from t...
Fox says no to Obama
in Sox First, on April 29, 2009
...nd will instead screen the scheduled drama Lie To Me. Variety magazine says it's a matter of economics. It's financially based, and not political, it says. Still, it is the first time a net...
Are economists to blame for the financial crisis?
in Sox First, on April 23, 2009
...economists, they give way to boyish irrational exuberance over the accomplishments and prospects of economics as a science ... The predictions of economists tend to give the impression that the econom...
To panic, or not to panic
in The CIO Weblog, on April 22, 2009
...afford a full main site and a geographically diverse backup, and the staff to operate it? It is the economics of centralization that allows a large measure of the safety that service subscribers alrea... ... longer period, over far larger areas. The September 11th attacks had similar effects on electronic communications systems and exposed systemic failings in IT systems in a similar manner. Were those c...
Another sucker's rally
in Sox First, on April 22, 2009
Should we read anything into the gyrations of the Dow Jones industrial average? Should we take heart when the market starts trading higher? If the experts are right, it's just a sucker's rally. As Dr Doom, Nouriel Roubini told Steve Forbes in this interview , the extent of the contract...
Canadian Golf Prepares for Storm
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 13, 2009
The recreational golf season is now underway in the chillier parts of North America.
The bite of winter has been replaced by the cool winds of spring but there is still a cold feel to the start of the season that goes bone-deep.
In Canada, a huge question mark hangs over the golf course indus...
Recession health chart: fit and miserable
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
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People are losing jobs and money but they're healthier than before. So says economics professor Chris Ruhm from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In this interview , Ruhm says... ... by slightly less than half a percent. Traffic deaths decline by 3 percent because fewer people are commuting and drinking is down. There are fewer smokers, too, which will have a big impact on mortal...
The New Ho Chi Minh Trail
in Eagle Par Birdie, on March 25, 2009
...of the new engines of economic growth in Southeast Asia, openly embracing the tenets of free market economics while remaining under Communist government control.
Yet Ho Chi Minh continues to make his... ...rowth in Southeast Asia, openly embracing the tenets of free market economics while remaining under Communist government control.
Yet Ho Chi Minh continues to make his presence felt 40 years after hi...
Climate change deniers on the increase
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
...rned that the effects of global warming would be worse than he predicted in his 2006 report on the economics of the problem. In that report, Stern said a rise of 4C would increase coastal flooding, r...
Opmanager online
in The CIO Weblog, on March 2, 2009
...atform, so it seems like a fairly easy move to a service-based system. You have to wonder about the economics and scalability of the leap, however. Although AdventNet's licensing rates have always...
Please Don't Take Away Our Tax Breaks!
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 27, 2009
... removal of tax breaks will do one thing - and this is what the outsourcers fear. It will shift the economics, making it necessary for the Indian outsourcers to sharpen their value proposition (and pe...
Newspaper death roll
in Sox First, on February 25, 2009
...there. The question is whether that will be enough to save the newspaper industry from its terrible economics....
Greenspan wants to nationalize banks
in Sox First, on February 19, 2009
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Last week, I did a blog entry that said US banks were insolvent and quoting Dr Doom, economics professor Nouriel Roubini, saying that the only answer is to nationalize the US banks. Now we have...
Talisman Unlimited Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on February 16, 2009
...le in 18k yellow gold, and 14k and 18k white gold, and 18k red gold.
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After earning a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and an M.F.A. from Brandeis University, Michael Pitkow co-founded ... ...dvertising agency, and has worked as a writer and designer, and started Aleph Records and Stone Age Communications.
After their marriage, Lisa bought some antique silver charms and beads at a fashio...
Stimulus Hype: Sorting Out Keynes (Part III)
in Bizinformer, on February 15, 2009
...nt column in Forbes late last month on Keynes, the Depression, and the modern critique of Keynesian economics. He also does a good job of explaining the different roles of fiscal policy and monetary p...
The Return of Depression Economics and Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman
in Sox First, on February 14, 2009
...e 1980s." Krugman says we are not in a Depression, and unlikely to get to one, but depression economics has returned. For the first time in two generations, there is a failure in the demand side...
Banks are insolvent
in Sox First, on February 13, 2009
...s rescue package. According to the New York Times reports, Stern School of Business professor of economics Nouriel Roubini, Dr Doom himself, has warned that total losses on loans by American financ...
Are British And American Banks Headed Towards Nationalization?
in Exclusive from our news room , on February 11, 2009
...infusion of great sums of money by the world's governments.
Anatole Kaletsky, a world renowned economics writer and commentator, says the only way American and British banks can survive this cris... ...s of money by the world's governments.
Anatole Kaletsky, a world renowned economics writer and commentator, says the only way American and British banks can survive this crisis is if they are nat...
Stimulus Hype: Will the Stimulus Work? (Part I)
in Bizinformer, on February 7, 2009
... middle class educator with 11 years of college (or there abouts), three degrees and an interest in economics. Now that that's out of the way...
One of the first pieces that really peaked my in...
Pay As You Play - The New Reality
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 3, 2009
... while injecting a fun and entertaining angle into those 9 holes, Baldassari's approach is pure economics.
His method will surely be copied around America and beyond as the weeks unfold and sprin...
Opinion: Policies Prolonged Depression
in Wangtam, on February 2, 2009
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Rupert Murdoch's downturn blues
in Sox First, on January 30, 2009
Rupert Murdoch is blaming the spending binge for the crisis, and warns that it will probably take some time until we emerge from it. But the reality is that his News Corporation has been hit hard by the downturn. Already, News Corporation's digital arm Fox Interactive Media is axing jobs...
Winter of discontent: will the Paris riots spread?
in Sox First, on January 30, 2009
Paris has broken out in violent protests over the French government's handling of the economic crisis with 65,000 demonstrators joining a march from the Place de la Bastille towards the center of the city as fires were lit on some of Paris' best-known boulevards and police used tea...
Defining Genocide: It Might Not Be What You Think
in Global Mobility Report, on January 4, 2009
...ate last month the people at Philosophy Bites interviewed Chandran Kukathas of the London School of Economics. The topic of discussion was genocide - specifically, the definition of genocide. I was su... ...ised to learn that under the current U.N. definition, you don't actually have to kill anyone to commit genocide. Genocide it the effort to do away with a group of people, and you can do that by ...
Winners and losers for 2008
in Sox First, on December 30, 2008
...ard Madoff's clients, the incompetent Securities and Exchange Commission, the Chicago School of Economics which for long had peddled the line about free markets so perfect that there was no need f... ...nd that come Yahoo investors, Bernard Madoff's clients, the incompetent Securities and Exchange Commission, the Chicago School of Economics which for long had peddled the line about free markets s...
Bernanke the banker
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
...f that much money is left in the monetary base, it would be extremely inflationary," Princeton economics professor Alan Blinder told the New York Times .
... ...pan's zero interest rate policies. The second is that the Fed has now become the most important commercial bank in the US. In effect, it is taking over the US banking system. Read the Fed's s...
George W rewrites history
in Sox First, on December 12, 2008
...the most destabilising decisions undertaken by the President: the Iraq war which according to Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz could cost the US more than $3 trillion, and the tax cuts fed... ...emind people that Bush's tax cuts set the stage for job growth. What a load of crap! As market commentator John P Hussman points out, the origins of this crisis are in no small part due to two o...
Race To Dubai Slowing Down?
in Eagle Par Birdie, on December 7, 2008
... to shell out the huge money.
Golf tours DO NOT draw a fraction of that globally.
It's simple economics. If car makers are beginning to abandon autosports, sponsors are right behind them. And si...
The Subprime Solution - Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
...a long and complex tragedy." Shiller, one of the founders of the behavioral finance school of economics, argues that boom thinking creates a "social contagion". He compares it to a di...
100 Online Video Lectures from Top Colleges
in The Online Universities Weblog, on November 21, 2008
...tures you can watch to learn from some of the leading experts in fields as diverse as astronomy and economics." Take a look and watch a video that interests you in the fields of science, technolo...
Telemundo Moves from Yahoo to MSN
in Latina Viva, on November 18, 2008
..., but for the most part we brought the content," Alfredo Richard, Telemundo's VP, Corp Comm told peidContent.org. "It was great for us in terms of getting visibility-and we couldn...
Forecasts of the economic disaster
in Sox First, on October 13, 2008
... timely piece on the ones who predicted the economic firestorm. They include New York University economics professor Nouriel Roubini ("A 1987 style stock market crash could occur leading to fu...
America's "Peicemeal, Rickety" Financial Aid System Needs Overhaul, Says CollegeBoard Group
in The Universities Weblog, on September 30, 2008
...cated," The report's co-author Sandy Baum told the Christian Science Monitor . Baum is an economics professor at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. "We're seeing proposals i...
IT jobs in a down market
in The CIO Weblog, on September 29, 2008
...ession of IT in a down market. This is a topic for writers with more wisdom and better schooling in economics than I. My largest experience with difficult markets was the dot-com bust, which wasn'... ...n recession or low growth economy are obviously right out the window), it seems like a good time to comment on the likely progression of IT in a down market. This is a topic for writers with more wisd...
What's in it for Zoho?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 8, 2008
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Last month I put up a post regarding the economics of the B2B SaaS market , responding primarily to an interesting post on Zoho's blog regarding the matter.
I have been entirely remiss in p...
Gustav means business
in Sox First, on September 1, 2008
The petroleum industry might be bracing itself for the impact of Hurricane gustav but its economic impact is going to be wider than that. The Washington Post reports that Louisiana's trademark tourism industry, along with sugar, shipping and even the manufacture of Tabasco sauce wil...
Free Online Finance Classes
in The Online Universities Weblog, on August 25, 2008
.... If you want to find a better way to manage your money or just want to learn more about banking or economics, take a look at my new list of free online finance classes .
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Death throes of the corporate data center
in The CIO Weblog, on August 22, 2008
...uced by utility computing services are inarguable, as they are simply upsized from the same logical economics that make any data center an efficient proposition. Economics, of course, are not the only... ...ing early to the opposite swing of the pendulum? Utility computing is often seen as evidence of the commoditization of technology on a grand scale, and a sign of the disappearance of competitive advan...
Olympic Women's Beach Volleyball
in The Celebrities Weblog, on August 21, 2008
...ng to the beach, the street in front of my house is will do just fine.
But that's enough about economics.
Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor have never lost a match and I send them my sincere ...
The economics of SaaS
in The CIO Weblog, on August 19, 2008
...an entry yesterday entitled "Why we compete with Google," going into some detail on the economics of the business software market in the process. It's worth a look, if only to understa...
You WILL drive a fuel efficient car
in carzz.org, on August 7, 2008
...en by consumer demand. Then let the market supply up to the demand. ARG! Just too simplistic of an economics 101. But why should you and I pay for a market we might not be interested in? A socialist m...
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in Wangtam, on August 4, 2008
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Headwinds?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 25, 2008
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In today's International Herald Tribune , an article discussing investments in outsourcing providers pointed to some potentially significant headwinds ahead for the single-country providers (as compared to global suppliers). The comb...
The Problem of Silos in Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 21, 2008
...ese key players in an F&A (or any other) outsourcing early in the process - to ensure that the economics of the deal work and that the processes and procedures used by the BPO provider can be impl...
Microsoft takes a stand with Vista
in The CIO Weblog, on July 10, 2008
...#39;t doubt the surveys, I'm not convinced those numbers mean much. It's more a question of economics and control to savvy CIOs, not so much of performance. And if you have already coughed up ...
China's Business Confidence Index - Up and Down
in China Venture News, on July 9, 2008
Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Is your glass half empty, or half full? The answers to those sorts of personality questions probably shape how you think of the current business climate index (BCI) numbers just released in China .
I haven't paid much attention to China's BCI before no...
Jewelry Bargains at Emitations
in The Jewelry Weblog, on July 6, 2008
... at affordable prices and with exceptional customer service. It all started in the bedroom of an economics major with a serious love for accessories. In 1998, Au-Co Mai put a choker up for auction ...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 31
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 1, 2008
...es:
Charlie and I look for companies that have a) a business we understand; b) favorable long-term economics; c) able and trustworthy management; and d) a sensible price tag. We like to buy the whole... ... present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.
A common theme in Buffett's writings is to give examples of where he's screwed up over the yea...
Online Classrooms Shorten Lecture Time
in The Online Universities Weblog, on June 19, 2008
...segments are static and are often considered boring. In fact, I once knew a student who watched his Economics lectures at triple the speed to spare himself the tediousness. Simply put: many viewers wo...
Rebound May Be Temporary, says Soros
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on May 26, 2008
... is only a bear market rally.
According to Reuters , Soros told a seminar at the London School of Economics, "The prevailing market opinion is that this crisis is like previous ones. ... Markets...
Customer Service Isn't Cheap
in The VoIP Weblog, on May 26, 2008
... but it is often true in terms of cost versus revenue obtained from the end user. Just look at the economics of the situation. By the time a customer of a $20/mo VoIP provider actually reaches someo... ... © sirmikester A commenter on my last post thought there are three ways a Vonage-like service might continue to survive: rock-bottom prices, kick-ass customer service, and call quality. Any comp...
Carl Icahn 将正式卷起新 Yahoo 收购风波
in Wangtam, on May 16, 2008
刚刚已经提及， 亿万富翁 Carl Icahn 上周谋得 Yahoo 董事席位，意欲发动代理权争夺战 。然后 Carl Icahn 在随后发给 Yahoo 的信中确认，他已经发动了旨在促成微软收购 Yahoo 的代理权争夺战。 Carl Icahn 已经提名了十位 Yahoo 董事候选人，希望用他们取代现有 Yahoo 董事会，以推动 Yahoo 接受微软每股 33 美元、总价值 475 亿美元的收购报价。 Carl Icahn 还在写给 Yahoo 董事会主席 Roy Bostock 的信中披露，他已经收购了 5900 万股 Yahoo 股票，并在寻求清除来自国美国联邦贸易委员会的反垄...
George Soros: market fundamentalism and other illusions
in Sox First, on May 12, 2008
...t I don't hold them personally responsible because you have a whole establishment involved. The economics profession has developed theories of "random walks" and "rational expectati...
"Good" economic news: glass empty or half-full?
in Sox First, on May 12, 2008
...ity figures and shrinking trade deficit? Don't pop the champagne corks, warns Associated Press economics correspondent Jeannine Aversa . The numbers might just be a mirage masking deeper problem...
微软宣布放弃收购 Yahoo
in M2 十字街口, on May 4, 2008
网谈消息 ，微软 CEO Steve Ballmer 今天向 Yahoo CEO 杨致远发出信函，宣布放弃收购。Steve Ballmer 也在信中证实，微软确实曾将收购报价提高到 33 美元/股，但 Yahoo 索要 37 美元/股。
Steve Ballmer 称，经过认真考虑后，他们认为 Yahoo 提出的要求是不合理的，因此收回了收购提议，这对微软股东、职员和其他股东都是最好的结果。他表示，虽然微软做出了最大努力，包括将报价提高了 50 亿美元，但 Yahoo 一直不肯接受。对此，Yahoo 尚未发表评论。
在信中，Steve Ballmer 也表达了对 Yahoo 和 G...
