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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...
China's supply chain challenge: Mitigating supply risk
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
...op of this quality issue," says Michael.
But not all Chinese companies have learned the right lessons, especially those behind the recent quality scandals, and a reorientation appears to be in o...
On Swine Flu, Travel and Homeschooling
in The Parenting Weblog, on July 4, 2009
... away from the office and school, respectively, as a form of quarantine. My son has been receiving lessons and worksheets from school which we work on at home. It helps to at least keep him busy, inst...
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...
Good News for Liberal Arts Majors - StarCraft Classes Now Available
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 2, 2009
... from the best, and it will only cost you $25 - $35 per hour.
These aren't just any Starcraft lessons. No sir! These Starcraft lessons are taught by a genuine, 100%, no-foolin, full-blooded Korea...
The Cloud Is Coming - and With It, Change for Business
in Web 2.0, on June 21, 2009
...he field stay in touch and share information. There are experiments popping up all over that offer lessons for other businesses. Serena Software has switched almost entirely to cloud services, even us...
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...
A Healthy Dozen "Gift" Ideas for Father's Day
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 16, 2009
...l help relax his shoulders (a better after-work stress reliever than a cocktail)
6. Buy him golf lessons, a month's membership at a gym
7. Find a hiking or biking group and join together (or ju...
Entrepreneurial Life
in TJ's Weblog, on June 7, 2009
...murphy
I came across a interesting piece last week from Small Business Trends : Entrepreneurial Lessons From The Experts. It was a list of simple observations about the life of entrepreneurs in gen...
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...
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...
AMR announces top 25 supply chains for 2009
in Supplychainer, on May 31, 2009
...a physical products universe with a digital products universe, however, Disney is learning valuable lessons about how best to control and monetize its IP.
Also IBM (No. 4) capabilities are interestin...
Study Finds P2P Makes Popular Music More Popular
in P2P File Sharing, on May 22, 2009
...ot be as bad a thing as we'd all previously thought," writes T3's Adam Bunker . "Lessons to be learned are that the record companies should stop seeing piracy as so much of a threat...
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 ...
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...
Ariba organizes spend management event in Sweden
in Supplychainer, on May 14, 2009
...f spend management solutions has launched a series of live events all around the world to share the lessons learned and best practices in the area of procurement, contract management and spend managem...
JJ Singh Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 12, 2009
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After graduating from high school, I asked my parents for metalsmithing lessons . Relieved I wasn't asking for a car, they called our local goldsmith and made arrangeme...
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...
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in Wangtam, on April 29, 2009
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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...
The Pirate Google
in Wangtam, on April 25, 2009
...ce's 1920s "sterling trap"
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Classic Car Collector Buys a Spitfire
in Classical Drives, on April 24, 2009
...hen and later overtaken by family responsibilities I was in my mid-50s before I finally took flying lessons. I'd sacrifice everything for an hour in that Spitfire cockpit.
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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...
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...
Hedge Funds in the Cayman Islands
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 21, 2009
...ng its inaugural Webinar on the highly topical subject of 'Managing Distressed Cayman Funds and lessons learned for new funds'.
"This fits in perfectly with our firm's progressive a...
ACTU Issues Warning About Nanomaterials
in Nanotechbuzz, on April 18, 2009
...teristics and reactions as asbestos fibres, governments and business must not repeat the painful lessons of the past and allow another tragedy to occur again," says ACTU assistant secretary Geoff...
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...
The new consumer
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
...g at thrift chic, the latest trend where people are embracing frugality and a new conservatism. The lessons of the 1930s taught us that when an economy runs into trouble, people turn tribal. Now the ...
Communities printing money
in Sox First, on April 7, 2009
...the US economy deteriorating. Nonetheless, it's another sign about the breakdown in trust. The lessons of the 1930s taught us that when economies go bad, people turn tribal. And as the WalletPop...
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...
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...
What's in YOUR network?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 16, 2009
...ld domination. Hutcheson speculates that this is not because those corporations have learned their lessons and stopped doing such things, but rather because network traffic has become some complex tha...
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...
Downturn hits democracy
in Sox First, on March 2, 2009
...t the fallout from the economic crisis. The impact could spread well beyond the market. We have the lessons of history showing us how dangerous it could get....
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...
Use Photoshop To Create Vivid Colors For Your Digital Photos
in Digital Shot, on February 26, 2009
...he processes you wish to master. Although there are many Photoshop books out there some of the best lessons are available free on the Internet.
Currently one of digital photography's popular appl...
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 ...
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...
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...
Lessons from Siemens
in Sox First, on January 19, 2009
...Germany. And that's a worry because it leaves you wondering whether the company has learned any lessons from the debacle. Lawyers say there are several lessons to be drawn from the Siemens saga...
Why Obama should take up cricket
in Sox First, on January 15, 2009
...ma should ditch baseball and turn to cricket, a far more complex game and one that offers him seven lessons. Number one is that cricket is played outside the United States and it's followed by so...
Stars of Tomorrow
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 15, 2009
Katie-Jane Stanley. Photo courtesy of Middleton Guardian
I tell ya, I wish I was a kid again. I'd take up the game of golf at the age of 9.
And I'd soak it up like a sponge.
Have you ever seen a 9 year old swing a driver like a pro? Okay, if you saw Tiger Woods at age 3 on the Johnn...
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...
3900 Saturdays
in The Parenting Weblog, on January 4, 2009
... the morning paper in the other. What began as
a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those lessons that life
seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell you about it:
I turned the dia...
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...
10 Offbeat Uses For A Digital Camera
in Digital Shot, on December 25, 2008
How many times have you found new uses for things you've had for a while?
My hunch is that it's happened frequently but no one person can come up with all the good ideas and I found 10 prime ways to use your digital camera, most of which I'll be you never would have imagined.
These...
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 .
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Over 100 Free Online Classes
in The Online Universities Weblog, on December 16, 2008
...n this directory offer top-notch study materials such as lecture transcripts, streaming videos, mp3 lessons, and interactive exercises."
Take a look to find free classes in subjects such as HTM...
Madoff and SEC neglect
in Sox First, on December 13, 2008
...ot? 'We're perfectly happy to just earn commissions on the trades,' he says. "The lessons of Long-Term Capital Management's collapse are that investors need, or should want, tran...
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...
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...
Free Online Guitar Classes
in The Online Universities Weblog, on November 26, 2008
...t of free online guitar classes can help. I've searched the web for the best free online guitar lessons in all formats.
Here's a blurb from my new article: "Anyone can learn to play the...
