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Will GM and Chrysler go bust?
in Sox First, on February 11, 2009
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Irony of ironies. Will the bailout of US automakers lead to them going out of business? Will it send GM and Chryler bankrupt? That's the question now being raised. As Forbes points out, the...
Trump Waits While Lawrie Celebrates
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 25, 2008
Courtesy: worldgolf.com
Scottish golfer Paul Lawrie has been given the go-ahead to construct a golf resort and housing development on greenbelt land in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Yes, that's the same Aberdeenshire where Donald Trump had been fighting a losing PR battle to build his own...
The Yuan, Exports, and the Hot Economy
in China Venture News, on March 3, 2008
I saw two interesting pieces last week on the rise of the yuan. One said that the appreciation of the Chinese currency was hurting small businesses in China and increasing the mortality rate among small business start-ups (something VC people should be interested in). The other said, basically, ...
Why incompetence creeps up the corporate ladder
in The CIO Weblog, on December 31, 2007
... nutshell, describes Dunning-Kruger. And here I had always thought it was just one of those amusing ironies we only pick up on when true, like Murphy's Law.
This is especially dangerous in a fiel...
Stakeholder vs shareholder capitalism
in Sox First, on October 23, 2007
...l model, the paper finds that stakeholder firms have lower output and higher prices which, irony of ironies, makes them more valuable than companies that just exist for their shareholders. The downsi... ... downside is that consumers have to pay higher prices. Also, the applicability of the model varies around the world. For example, only 3 per cent of Japanese managers say companies should maintain di...
Philanthropy Makes a Comeback in China
in China Venture News, on September 29, 2007
... looked at some of the regulatory issues involved in the rise of philanthropy in China. A couple of ironies emerge. One is that charity was despised by Mao. Another is that American institutions (like...
DMCA Bites Hollywood
in Digital Music - The Future, on March 21, 2007
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Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig notes the ironies in copyright law in " Make Way for Copyright Chaos ."
The controversial 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act was crafted as a c...
DMCA Bites Hollywood
in P2P File Sharing, on March 21, 2007
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Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig notes the ironies in copyright law in " Make Way for Copyright Chaos ."
The controversial 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act was crafted as a c...
Ironies Around Coal
in IfEnergy, on February 27, 2007
This news article reports about members of the rainforest Action Network advocacy group, dressed as billionaires, protesting in front of the Merrill Lynch office at the Citigroup Center, NY, for what appears as contrasting positions of Merrill Lynch on coal. Could this little band of scr...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 12
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 25, 2006
...fett laments the bad reputation of insurance companies, one that he finds unfair:
"One of the ironies of business is that many relatively-unprofitable industries that are plagued by inadequate p... ...ompanies, the boss shoots the arrow of managerial performance and then hastily paints the
bullseye around the spot where it lands.
Another important, but seldom recognized, distinction between the b...
Accountants continue to rake it in
in Sox First, on September 6, 2006
...e, Sarbanes-Oxley underpins this investor demand for risk protection. It's one of the perverse ironies about a piece of legislation brought in to protect investors from accounting shenanigans....
Labels Pick on Someone Their Own Size - Yahoo
in P2P File Sharing, on July 4, 2006
...fight such filtering on grounds of technical difficulty, expense, and competition.
There are a few ironies here. The first is that the search engines have brought this on themselves. They have capitu...
Labels Pick on Someone Their Own Size - Yahoo
in Digital Music - The Future, on July 4, 2006
...fight such filtering on grounds of technical difficulty, expense, and competition.
There are a few ironies here. The first is that the search engines have brought this on themselves. They have capitu...
Wal-Mart Meets Hercules
in Bizinformer, on June 1, 2006
... There are all kinds of ironies in the efforts of a San Francisco suburb to block Wal-Mart from building a gargantuan discount store in its midst. There's the city's name, of course. It'...