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The shrinking movie release window and blockbusters
in Sox First, on November 28, 2009
...lliantly at the box office, breaking the record set by Twilight. It's a point examined in The Economist this week. Audiences are fragmenting into niches and consolidating around blockbusters. It ...
Artists and capitalism
in Sox First, on November 28, 2009
...ly, the bigger the gap between rich and poor, the more the artist gets. This is backed up in The Economist which notes that as nations grow richer, their citizens become more educated, have fewer ...
Seen that? - Poll ranks nanotechnology second most influential technology
in Nanotechbuzz, on November 27, 2009
...h. Simply a matter of focus and indeed I do not think the area can live up to the hype. However the Economist features a survey of Nanotech with some interesting insights: - there is no Nanotech indus...
Economy to get worse with debt hitting $12 trillion
in Sox First, on November 18, 2009
...owth and high levels of unemployment which are expected to keep growing. Not surprisingly, Dr Doom economist Nouriel Roubini warns the worst is yet to come with job losses expected to continue unti...
US unemployment to hit 13%
in Sox First, on November 12, 2009
... US unemployment will peak at around 10% and that the recession is over. But former Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg says unemployment will hit 13%, the highest since monthly records began ...
Most Americans to depend on government for handouts
in Sox First, on November 10, 2009
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To fix the unemployment problem, economist Paul Krugman suggests the US Government bring in a WPA (Works Progress Administration) -type program, the same sort of approach that was adopted i...
Seen that? - Germany in trouble?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on November 9, 2009
...firms is $1.13 positive for every dollar spend. Well you can argue about these findings but now The Economist cites another study about outsourcing in Germany. Because of the different outsourcing des...
Unemployment and the failed stimulus
in Sox First, on November 7, 2009
...rojects and overseas banks are seeking to reimburse themselves with money from the package. The Economist says things will pick up but creating jobs will require more spending. This time, it needs...
Waiting for the crash
in Sox First, on November 2, 2009
...r, it might be time to wonder whether we are headed for another major bust. That's the warning from economist Nouriel Roubini in the Financial Times where he says the marked rally in risky assets -...
Too big to fail is too dumb
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
...he problem is that when the disaster strikes again, people will turn against the market. As British economist John Kay writes , it's impossible for regulators to prevent business failure and they sho...
The Big Whack: McDonald's pulls out of Iceland
in Sox First, on October 28, 2009
... from Germany so the currency collapse hurt its margins. So how significant is this? Only that The Economist regularly publishes a Big Mac Index which basically measures purchasing power around the...
Over-valued S&P to tumble and the double dip recession.
in Sox First, on October 27, 2009
...n the US economy can come from." Now we have another warning that it could drop sharply. Economist Andrew Smithers, president of research firm Smithers & Co, says the S&P is over-valued 40% and i...
Google versus Amazon
in Sox First, on October 26, 2009
Amazon has dropped the price of the Kindle again, a move that InformationWeek says is pretty much in response to Barnes & Noble, Sony, Plastic Logic, and Asus. In particular, it comes after Barnes & Noble released its electronic reader, the Nook . But the real reason Amazon is being so ...
Hundreds lining up for low pay
in Sox First, on October 26, 2009
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US unemployment will continue to grow with Drew Matus, a senior US economist at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research in New York telling Bloomberg it will peak at 10.2% in the first quarter of...
Pay cuts for auto firm executives. What about banks?
in Sox First, on October 23, 2009
...led companies. But it's a different story with the banks and other financial services firms. The Economist reports that despite the fact that Citigroup and Bank of America lost billions of dollars...
Dollar to tumble even more
in Sox First, on October 22, 2009
...out from now. The question is what that means for the US dollar as a global reserve currency. The Economist makes the point that there are no simple solutions but says the state of the greenback h...
Endless unemployment and the new pledge of allegiance
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
... rate will be permanently higher, or at least higher for the foreseeable future," Mark Zandi, chief economist and co-founder of Moody's Economy.com told Raum. Things are so bad that an email being s...
Controlling investing emotions
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
...estors be controlled from making dumb mistakes? How do you ensure investors keep a cool head? The Economist reports that electronics company Philips and Dialogues Incubator, a venture sponsored by...
Seen that? - Nanotech market to top $1 trillion by 2010
in Nanotechbuzz, on October 12, 2009
...h. Simply a matter of focus and indeed I do not think the area can live up to the hype. However the Economist features a survey of Nanotech with some interesting insights: - there is no Nanotech indus...
Rich getting richer
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...tune but at the very top, there are people raking it in. How else do we explain this report in The Economist which shows that the rich in America are earning more? Economists, Emmanuel Saez and Tho...
No Recovery in I.P.O.'s Yet
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-04
• No Recovery in I.P.O.'s Yet
• The PSPgo Launch Guide
• GE Is in Talks to Spin Off NBC, Give Comcast 51% of New Unit
• Refine your search results with new Search Options
• UK court orders writ to be served via Twitter
• Spotify goes offline
• Keyboard Shortcut To Quickly Open A Jum...
Recession to last until 2012 - Stiglitz
in Sox First, on September 20, 2009
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Forget all the talk from Bernanke that the recession is over. Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the recession won't be over until 2012, at the earliest. In an interview...
喜马拉雅南麓风光美如画
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-15
... Goodbye, Gobbledygook
• Google Economist Sees Positive Signs in Search Term Trends
• How To: Back Up All Your Stuff, For Free
• Google主页11年变迁之路
• Some Notes On iTunes LP
• Microsoft: Window...
Open Letter Questions UK P2P Plan
in P2P File Sharing, on September 7, 2009
...imate is no more than 'lobbyists' speak' (as) it has little support from logic, and no economist would seek to weave such a number into a metric aimed at quantifying a 'value gap' ...
Electric cars - no one will buy without Government backing
in Sox First, on September 6, 2009
...way for the electric car industry to take off is with Government intervention and policies. As The Economist says, imposing a carbon tax would make owning a gas guzzler more prohibitive, regulations...
Unemployment boosts profits
in Sox First, on September 5, 2009
...om? We're going to have elevated unemployment for four years to come," Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington told the New York Times . While an Intern...
Headed for the double dip
in Sox First, on August 20, 2009
... to cool off inflation." If that were to happen, we could well be in for the double dip. As economist Nouriel Roubini writes, we could be looking at a "phantom recovery". And as he ...
Japan limps out of recession, for now
in Sox First, on August 17, 2009
...e on leave, train, or transfer their employees because of underperforming business. That's why economists are saying we need to wait and see. "When you look at the numbers, the contrast betw...
A W-shaped recovery
in Sox First, on August 12, 2009
...r job. "It's going to be a recovery only a statistician can love," Wells Fargo senior economist Mark Vitner told the Washington Post . So what kind of of letter will this recession tak...
Recovery at least two years off: Krugman
in Sox First, on August 10, 2009
... long will there be until there is a recovery? At least two years, according to Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. According to the New York Times , the world avoided a second Great Dep...
Running out of oil
in Sox First, on August 3, 2009
...se than the credit crunch. Now The Independent runs an interview with the world's top energy economist Dr Fatih Birol from the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris who warns that the worl...
Soprano state corruption
in Sox First, on July 27, 2009
...rnment, something which might explain some of the corruption. It's a point also raised in The Economist . "There are thousands of public officials in the state's 21 counties, 566 munici...
Can Twitter and Facebook make money?
in Sox First, on July 25, 2009
...week says the only way sites like Twitter and Facebook can make a buck is by charging users. The Economist agrees and reiterates the obvious: if they are to survive, these sites will have to chang...
Roubini: the recovery will be ugly
in Sox First, on July 21, 2009
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Stocks might be rising with economist Nouriel "Dr Doom" Roubini saying that the worst of the financial crisis is over but the optimism seems to be misplaced. First, his comments don&#...
Recession and repression
in Sox First, on July 16, 2009
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The recession is turning into a repression. Analysts and economists have gone into total denial. First, we have the Bank of America Merrill Lynch (what a mouthful) declaring that the recession ...
Blame the recession on Reagan: Paul Krugman
in Sox First, on June 1, 2009
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Some fascinating comments from Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman blaming America's economic woes on Ronald Reagan. Basically, Krugman says deregulation, the piling up of debt and t...
More housing woes
in Sox First, on May 30, 2009
...bottom and we might see some stability in the housing market by the summer," Adam York, an economist at Wachovia Corp. in Charlotte, North Carolina told Bloomberg . But the Mortgage Banker...
Economists predict recession ends this year. As if!
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
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So economists are predicting the recession will end this year. They reckon the housing market will bottom out and they don't see the recession lasting longer than the first quarter of 2010. ...
Employee disengagement in a recession
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...s to cash in later on, or giving them special jobs or more flexibility. The worrying part, as The Economist pointed out earlier this year, is that engagement schemes are not recession proof. And th...
Corporate social responsibility and recession
in Sox First, on May 16, 2009
With the recession, companies are cutting back on their corporate social responsibility budgets but it's not going away. As reported here , the big cuts are in corporate philanthropy but they are still focusing on areas like green supply chains. Why is that happening? A report in Slate, an...
Financial crisis winners to hurt banks
in Sox First, on May 16, 2009
...big winners coming out of this financial crisis? And how will they threaten to destroy banks? The Economist identifies four big winners that will decimate the banking sector. These include the advi...
Bad retail figures expose recovery myth
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
...gnation because of the US Government's wimpish "half-measures". Writing in Forbes , economist Nouriel Roubini suggests the so-called green shoots might actually be yellow weeds. "...
Why stricter laws won't work
in Sox First, on May 13, 2009
...cter laws to fix the banking system is that it turns good behavior into a matter of compliance. As economist John Kay writes, that stricter rules can never replace integrity and that they only resul...
Kapalua Saved. PGA Sighs With Relief
in Eagle Par Birdie, on May 8, 2009
... that the PGA Tour has landed its first new sponsor since the economic meltdown. Depending on which economist you like to believe in, that could be the first new sponsor since 2007 when the Great Rece...
No recovery yet
in Sox First, on May 9, 2009
...as feared. The economic conditions are improving and the economic trough is not too far away," economist Sung Won Sohn, a professor at Cal State Channel Islands and a former Wells Fargo executive...
Amazon 推出新款 9.7-inch 显示屏的 Kindle DX
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-07
如传言所预告，Amazon 今天推出了新款的 9.7 英寸大显示屏的 Kindle DX 电子阅读器 ，内置 PDF 阅读器，具有自动旋转功能，最多可存储 3500 本图书，售价仅为 489 美元。目前 Kindle 网店共有 27.5 万本图书，其中包括当下 112 部《纽约时报》畅销书中的 107 部，该类图书及新推出的图书以每本 9.99 美元的价格出售。
主要配置参数：
• Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines
• Lightweight: At 10.2 ounces, lighter than...
Testing stress tests
in Sox First, on May 5, 2009
...o-market and the entire financial system is still addicted to taxpayer cash," Gilbert writes. Economist Nouriel Roubini argues that the stress tests are actually "fudge tests" becaus...
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
...lof and Shiller, best-selling author and professor of economics at Yale University, argue that that economists have ignored these forces and have dismissed them as irrelevant. Which in itself might ex...
Swine flu hits business
in Sox First, on April 30, 2009
...Organization promoting swine flu to level five of its six-level pandemic alert and warnings in The Economist that there is little hope of having enough antiviral treatments for all who would need th...
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...
Dangerous economic optimism
in Sox First, on April 25, 2009
...od, the train is a long way down the track. In fact, the optimism might even be dangerous. Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff has told Reuters that the US, Britain, Spain and Ireland won't re...
Are economists to blame for the financial crisis?
in Sox First, on April 24, 2009
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How much are economists to blame for the financial crisis? Most of them, with perhaps the exception of Nouriel Roubini and Robert Shiller, failed to see the weaknesses in financial markets. They j...
Back door bank nationalisation
in Sox First, on April 20, 2009
...ry could become the biggest shareholder in the banks. Nationalization is not just a plan pushed by economists such as Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, Nouriel "Dr Doom" Roubini and former World...
Googling future trends
in Sox First, on April 18, 2009
...pdated constantly, we can get these figures before they are officially released. According to The Economist , the application could have wide use. That said, some of the categories Google searches...
Easter egg and flower sales boom in recession
in Sox First, on April 11, 2009
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Despite the global recession, flower sales and Easter baskets are doing great business. The Economist reports that while overall flower sales are down slightly, selling tulips is a thriving bus...
A Web 2.0 Obituary?
in TJ's Weblog, on April 2, 2009
...omething.
Nevertheless I recent thought occurred to me and I found it a valuable lesson.
The Economist recently glamored over the Web 2.0 years and finished its conclusion with the bitter lack o...
The Economist to Launch London Theme Park
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 1, 2009
... strategy designed to broaden the revenue base, leverage content over new platforms and promote The Economist brand to a young and dynamic audience, The Economist Group is delighted to announce the de...
Online connection boom
in Sox First, on March 28, 2009
...ant to find someone who care about them. It's a nice line but it's not that simple. As the Economist points out, it's a form of cheap entertainment. Besides, there has also been a bo...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
...anti-business, the Obama administration appears to be softening its stance on the AIG bonuses. The Economist points out that the big danger for Obama is that he will be accused of pandering to popul...
US dollar under fire
in Sox First, on March 24, 2009
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Economist and forecaster Harry S Dent has predicted that over the next twenty years, the US dollar will lose its power as the world's reserve currency . He reckons the the premier currency ...
Why Geithner's plan won't work
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
...ly taking that big a risk, it's underwritten by the US Government. It's a point taken up by economist Paul Krugman this morning. As Krugman points out, private investors are being asked to p...
IBM Buying Sun?
in Java Entrepreneur, on March 21, 2009
...orld ... more here from Barron's ... more here from TheStreet ... and more here from the Economist . ...
Climate change deniers on the increase
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
... meeting in Copenhagen to lay the foundations for some sort of global accord on the climate crisis. Economist Nicholas Stern has warned that the effects of global warming would be worse than he pred...
50 个被 Blogger 们链接最多的媒体网站
in Wangtam, on 2009-03-13
Blog 搜索引擎 Technorati 日前 发布统计报告 ，报告显示了媒体被 Blogger 们链接最多的媒体网站。以下是 TOP50 的排名表：
1. YouTube
2. New York Times
3. BBC News
4. CNN.com
5. MSN
6. guardian.co.uk
7. Washington Post
8. Yahoo! News
9. Reuters
10. Los Angeles Times
Are we headed for a Depression?
in Sox First, on March 5, 2009
...se. The Beige Book says there could be a recovery in 2010. Yeah right, don't hold your breath. Economist Nouriel "Dr Doom" Roubini has told Time Magazine says that in a perfect world ...
Downturn hits democracy
in Sox First, on March 2, 2009
...lay of what we saw in the 1930s, was threatening democracy. Now added to that comes some alarming Economist Intelligence Unit data showing that the spread of democracy has come to a screeching halt...
James Galbraith: Obama not solving the financial crisis
in Sox First, on February 28, 2009
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Barack Obama's rescue package won't fix the problem, says economist James K Galbraith . In his testimony to the House Financial Services Committee, reported here , Galbraith says the pr...
Geschäftsreisen in der Krise - was müssen Hotels bieten?
in Hotels mit Flair, on 24.02.09
...t gibt es eine Studie über den "Sparsamen Reisenden" des Marktforschungsinstituts Economist Intelligence Unit. Kurz und knapp: Vor allem Führungskräfte sollen in Zukunft das Reisebudget ef...
The Great Depression Ahead by Harry S Dent
in Sox First, on February 21, 2009
...ltdown is worse than the Great Depression, it might be time to look at Dent's book . Dent, an economist and professional forecaster says we ain't seen nothing yet. He says 2010 to 2012 will...
The meltdown and fascism: minister warns
in Sox First, on February 10, 2009
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In his book The Subprime Solution , economist Robert Shiller warns that in good times people are willing to co-operate and accommodate others but when optimism for the future turns sour, they bec...
