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Dubai: what's ahead?
in Sox First, on November 29, 2009
...g in the Financial Times , Professor of European Political Economy at the London School of Economics, Willem Buiter, says investors have only themselves to blame. "I don’t see what the big deal is. ... ...nking under. "They won't be able to raise a penny again from the international investment community," one hedge fund manager told The Guardian . This is likely to end up in the courts. Most of the ...
Seen that? - Globetrotter
in TJ's Weblog, on November 20, 2009
... There has been a lot of discussion in business circles about the 2006 Nobel Prize winner in Economics, going to Professor Edmund S. Phelps because he has been such a supporter of entrepreneurs...
Glass-Steagall and the market meltdown
in Sox First, on November 13, 2009
...nd Phil Gramm. He reminds us that the other culprits include the then Treasury secretary, now Obama economics czar Larry Summers, Gary Gensler, then a treasury undersecretary, today the head of the Co... ...heir vaults. In its repeal, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act signed in by President Bill Clinton allowed commercial banks to merge with investment banks. And because banks were now allowed to cover both si...
Seen that? - Online Dating Sites
in TJ's Weblog, on November 10, 2009
... Content Sharing sites have seen a boom not only since the Youtube mega-deal. The basic economics work like that: - We build a feature rich site where users can upload A, B, C - We add soc...
Exchange 2010 now available
in The CIO Weblog, on November 9, 2009
...oft, one that may serve to put it ahead of the game for once when it comes to online services. The economics of hosted e-mail are among the clearest of all cloud services, the history the longest, an... ...eds because when combined with Outlook, it provides a powerful and in-demand platform for corporate communications that competitors do not yet successfully match. I suppose you could argue that the c...
Big profits: How Goldman Sachs bet on the US housing crash
in Sox First, on November 5, 2009
...es while at the same time placing bets that the US housing market would crash. As Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff told Gordon, it smells like a fraud and should be prosecuted.... ...otlikoff told Gordon, it smells like a fraud and should be prosecuted. "The Securities and Exchange Commission should be very interested in any financial company that secretly decides a financial prod...
TechFlash discusses roadblocks to innovation in America
in The CIO Weblog, on November 2, 2009
... just shaking their heads saying, "No kidding." Of course that's what's happening... it's just economics.
But we're less sanguine when it comes to our own jobs, claiming that it's un-American, or ... ...s that he has applied this rationality to places where it was long lacking in the philanthropic community. Sometimes you have to do things to succeed which are counter-intuitive. Perhaps the reality...
Seen that? - Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse
in P2P File Sharing, on October 31, 2009
... early warning signs of economic maturity, if not decay itself. Life is Darwinian, whether it's economics, business, biology, or sport. Once the fire is gone, the game, or at least [...] Read Mor... ...n northern California could be overrun with rising water as a result of global warming.Conservative commentators and so-called experts will no doubt attack Chu for being alarmist but others are more l...
Nobel Prize winners are also supply chain people!!
in Supplychainer, on October 26, 2009
... Hey I saw this exciting news in DC Velocity on recent winners of nobel prize in economics: apparently one of the co-winners is a supply chain folk:
Much has been made of the fact that Indi...
Do the Pitfalls of Outsourcing Outweigh the Benefits?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 19, 2009
...ails.
Of course, risk monitoring and management is an added cost, one that adversely affects the economics of an outsourcing deal – particularly when compared to in-house deals. Why? Because the ...
Outsourcing as an Economic Indicator
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 24, 2009
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In yesterday's Business Week , Mehul Srivastava described a decline in salaries and turnover in Indian firms, no doubt caused by the declining economy. That certainly parallels the global recession - particularly in areas such as technology investment and long term deals.
U...
Sarkozy wants joie de vivre index
in Sox First, on September 15, 2009
... out by an international panel of economists led by Joseph Stiglitz, the US Nobel Prize winner. The commission argued that GDP was perverse because it did not take into account public services and hom...
The next bubbles
in Sox First, on September 12, 2009
...le because they're inevitable. "The forces that create bubbles are only partly to do with economics. The big drivers are social and psychological. We need an infrastructure that can anticipa... ...he rush to buy cheap; education; repackaged subprime mortgages; securitised life insurance schemes; commercial real estate (definitely popping now) and emerging markets in developing countries. If th...
The looming dementia epidemic and health care crisis
in Sox First, on September 1, 2009
... for people suffering from Alzheimer's. In Australia, there are reports of a study by Access Economics suggesting that the number of people with dementia will quadruple by 2050. This trend will...
Costs of fighting climate change to treble
in Sox First, on August 30, 2009
We all know that fighting climate change will cost billions. But how much cash do we need? A new report from scientists says world leaders have massively underestimated these costs. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) estimates that annual global costs of adapting to clima...
Loan deals Italian style
in Sox First, on August 24, 2009
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It's a sign of the times and just the kind of mouth-watering economics story that anyone would love. The Guardian reports that cash strapped Italian food producers plan to put up expensive...
The smart meter revolution
in Sox First, on August 23, 2009
...rity technologies. This has the potential of creating new businesses. It's a point taken up by economics professor Jeremy Rifikin in this lecture . Rifkin says: "The great pivotal economic... ...an entirely new IT infrastructure. As this piece points out, grids reaching individual houses and commercial and industrial facilities via smart meters will have millions and millions of nodes, far ...
Health care reform and a fat tax
in Sox First, on August 16, 2009
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With the United States now agonizing over the future of health care, New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt raises the question of whether the system needs a fat tax. Leonhardt arg...
Twitter's fragility
in Sox First, on August 8, 2009
...hat crippled Twitter raise a number of questions. The New York Times suggests the target was an economics professor from the republic of Georgia. According to the paper, the hackers used thousands...
Is the housing bust over?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 30, 2009
...latest economic type to opine that the housing recovery is now in progress is University of Chicago economics professor Casey Mulligan. In a column printed in the New York Times, Mulligan says that al...
Poor Bernanke
in Sox First, on July 30, 2009
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Bernanke got poorer in the market meltdown. As Bloomberg reports, the former economics professor's assets fell 29% last year as the financial crisis eroded the value of his assets. Or did ...
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 7, 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 June 1, 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
...ntrigued, 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 30, 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 24, 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 say... ... 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 26, 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 15, 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 2009-02-03
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Rupert Murdoch's downturn blues
in Sox First, on January 31, 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 31, 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 5, 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 31, 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...
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...
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...
