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Christianity and the crash
in Sox First, on November 16, 2009
...n the here and now. It's called the prosperity gospel, and fosters risk-taking and intense material optimism. And unfortunately, that contributed to the housing bubble. Rosin writes: "Many explanatio...
Seen that? - Business School for Startups?
in Small Business Unplugged, on November 10, 2009
...ique set of characteristics. You have to be willing to take calculated risks. In addition, a mix of optimism, high energy, and an ability to live with [...] Read More ...
China's Entrepreneur Confidence Index is Up
in China Venture News, on October 14, 2009
...and projections of entrepreneurs, ranges from zero to 200. When it is higher than 100, it indicates optimism for an economic boom. But when it is lower than 100, it means there is an expectation of ec...
Seen that? - Digital music is 6% of industry sales
in Digital Music - The Future, on October 9, 2009
...s proof of that exercise. The promise of the digital marketplace is being realized. There's new optimism." And now [...] Read More Digital music grew in 2005 despite P2P usage ...
Dirty oil
in Sox First, on August 22, 2009
...d their highest level for the year at $74.48. Forbes has jumped on that, claiming its a sign of optimism about the recovery. As things pick up, there'll be greater demand and that will drive u...
Roubini: the recovery will be ugly
in Sox First, on July 21, 2009
...t 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't seem to be that different from him te...
Suddenly more bullish on housing?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 14, 2009
...aid that they thought the value of their homes would rise in the next year.
What accounts for this optimism? There has been some good housing news lately. Home sales rose during the Spring. But when ...
Survival strategies for a deepening recession
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
...went into a tailspin as did the Australian market . All this needs to be seen in the light of the optimism that's been breaking out all over. It's been premature. A new Boston Consulting Gr...
Could Childhod Obesity Be Declining?
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 16, 2009
...inding, reported by The Journal of the American Medical Association, has been greeted with guarded optimism, and it remains unclear whether efforts to limit junk food and increase physical activity in...
Crunch for airlines
in Sox First, on June 8, 2009
...L-shaped recovery,'' Bisignani says. "I am a realist. I don't see facts to support optimism. Our industry is in survival mode." British Air's Chief Executive Officer Willie ...
Economists predict recession ends this year. As if!
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...oubini predicts that the US will have sub-optimal growth for two years and that there is too much optimism. Personally, I have given up believing in economists. Indeed, I blame this financial crisi...
Peace and Love Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 4, 2009
... semiprecious stones . The designs are a timeless combination of elegance and brilliance. Boundless optimism is the hallmark of Nancy Davis. Her jewelry collection reflects the designer's belief t...
Dangerous economic optimism
in Sox First, on April 25, 2009
...ing to pick up and the signs are looking good, 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 ...
Hope, greed, fear and the financial crisis
in Sox First, on April 17, 2009
...ogy behind the financial crisis. It makes the point that the crisis was underpinned by a mix of optimism and delusion, which created the bubble in the first place. And it makes the point that peo...
Recession: neither the beginning of the end or end of the beginning
in Sox First, on April 13, 2009
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Last week, we saw President Obama expressing some guarded optimism with the US economy and declaring that there were "glimmers of hope". that coincides with economists surveyed by Th...
Enterprise 2.0: Reality Check
in The CIO Weblog, on April 10, 2009
...percolating in to the field. There was nothing reactionary to be seen, and a considerable amount of optimism as to the eventual applicability of the concepts... tempered with a healthy dose of the rea...
RFID in times of recession
in The RFID Weblog, on March 27, 2009
...ions are demanding, it is expected to cast a small effect on the adoption of RFID. Despite all this optimism the vendor performance and end user activity during the first and second quarter of 2009 is...
Market soars as trade collapses
in Sox First, on March 24, 2009
...ince the recession began to take hold in the fourth quarter of 2008 there has been little cause for optimism in the outlook for trade in 2009. The financial crisis has disrupted the normal functioning...
Detroit: a new beginning?
in Sox First, on March 11, 2009
...already showing up." It's an interesting piece to read, but it doesn't quite gel. The optimism and hope it expresses is just window dressing for something that's heart-breaking to wa...
Recession to last three to five years
in Sox First, on March 10, 2009
...uld be "L-shaped stagnation, or near depression," he says. Still, there is room for some optimism. Kind of. Roubin says the risk of a total meltdown has been reversed for now. Instead, the ...
Blind over-optimistic analysts
in Sox First, on February 28, 2009
Why do the analysts and forecasters keep getting it so wrong? Going from the predictions, you can see they haven't yet twigged that things are a lot worse than they're making out. The situation is even worse when you consider that regulators are coming from the same direction. That'...
The meltdown and fascism: minister warns
in Sox First, on February 10, 2009
...t Shiller warns that in good times people are willing to co-operate and accommodate others but when optimism for the future turns sour, they become angry, fearful and selfish. The Great Depression the...
Wall Street to Obama: the banks are insolvent
in Sox First, on January 21, 2009
So Wall Street has greeted the new President by plunging 4% , the worst ever performance on inauguration day and beating the previous record set by the hopeless herbert hoover . Wall Street is telling Obama something: US are in bad shape, perhaps insolvent. The banks led the tsunami with ap...
Maths and the meltdown
in Sox First, on January 15, 2009
...ancial economist at Harvard Business School, looked for signatures of investor sentiment-irrational optimism or pessimism-in stock-market data since the 1960s. They hypothesized that certain stocks wo...
The Effect of Satyam's Revelation
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on January 10, 2009
...rting discipline to all players in the industry.
Glowing annual reports and boundless, unrealistic optimism have long been part of India's sales pitch. For the more cynical among us, these statem...
The year ahead: what to expect?
in Sox First, on January 1, 2009
...chological impact of the inauguration of Barack Obama also shouldn't be discounted. He embodies optimism. It wouldn't be in the least surprising if, towards the latter part of the second half ...
Venture Funds Still Spending Big in China
in China Venture News, on November 26, 2008
... trend continues, the VC people will eventually run out of money to spend - regardless of their own optimism...
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Tim Geithner: crisis manager
in Sox First, on November 23, 2008
...the equity market shock and September 11, the increased mobility of the world's savings and the optimism produced by the acceleration in productivity growth, have all worked to lower expected futu...
Jamie Joseph Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on October 20, 2008
...ling silver chain. Found in Brazil, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Russia and Australia, aquamarine strengthens optimism and expression, while calming nerves, eliminating fears, and sharpening mental clarity. Thi...
Should Juande Ramos be worried?
in The Soccer Weblog, on September 16, 2008
...of his teeth.
Last season's Carling Cup win seems to be a long way away and the excitement and optimism that the triumph generated has already faded away....
Are we firing people here, or what?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 6, 2008
...should still be the case even when similar fears for 2008 have not played out (witness the relative optimism in Merrill Lynch's report, where respondents are forced to look at actual numbers from ...
Confusing Numbers
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 23, 2008
...this backlog in demand, the outsourcing and technical services world can look at 2009 with cautious optimism, both because of the floodgates being lifted and because of many companies' inability t...
Ten Things Worth Knowing about the Chinese Internet
in China Venture News, on July 8, 2008
... supernovas of the blogosphere and they nailed it with this piece.
They've captured both the Optimism and the pessimism that surrounds the Internet in China. They get the fact that what m...
Ince makes the step up with Blackburn.
in The Soccer Weblog, on June 22, 2008
...e fans when Mark Hughes left to go to Manchester City will have been replaced with renewed hope and optimism.
Mark Hughes has made Blackburn a force to be reckoned with in the top half of the Premier...
A fresh breeze from Hong Kong
in TJ's Weblog, on May 20, 2008
... Indian Ocean or business hubs like Shanghai, Singapore or KL.
So it's easy to share the optimism people express here about the near future especially with awakening dragon (who has not bitt...
More CIO unrest
in The CIO Weblog, on April 30, 2008
...rs, just as many were at the end of the dot-com implosion .
I think there is reason for some optimism, however. While there will be an old-guard of CIOs who fight advances diminishing their bud...
Hard times: why history is no guide
in Sox First, on April 25, 2008
... for 70% of GDP, that means that the workout will also last a very long time. That does not warrant optimism about a short sharp downturn followed by a quick recovery in the US or OECD economies."...
China - A New Business' Best Friend, or Not?
in China Venture News, on April 22, 2008
I came across a blog post by James McMullen back on February 16: China Is a Budding Business' Best Friend . I saved it. I intended to comment here on it, but I just never got around to it. Then a couple of weeks ago (April 6) I saw this piece by Mark Gilroy on the current state of the Chinese...
Mark to market mess
in Sox First, on April 9, 2008
...ss money because the value of the collateral he was putting up was clearly a product of unwarranted optimism or that he shouldn't collect management fees based on the assets under management becau...
Life is Good Comes To Town
in Bizinformer, on October 30, 2007
...d in Boston, marketing everything from apparel to dog dishes to furniture, but its chief product is optimism.
Starting with $78 and an idea that life is basically good, why not celebrate its goodnes...
Search For Steve Fossett Continues on the Ground
in The Outdoor Weblog, on September 30, 2007
...t for millionaire aviator Steve Fossett on Sunday after a new analysis of radar data provided fresh optimism.
The formal aerial search by the Civil Air Patrol and the Nevada National Guard had ended...
Uncertainty or optimism in the IT world?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 18, 2007
...ending on the vagaries of your particular industry. And the CIO Insight article reflected a certain optimism on the part of CIOs interviewed for it as well, with many of them apparently feeling shield...
The Cars We Drove... in Pictures and Music
in Classical Drives, on August 31, 2007
...k back with fondness and nostalgia on a period when, as has often been written, America was full of optimism, cars were about having a good time, and popular music reflected our car-based lifestyles. ...
The Female Perspective
in Bizinformer, on August 25, 2007
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Laura Young at The Dragon Slayer's Guide to Life
Learned on Women by Andrea Learned
Learning Optimism by Nataly Kogan
Lindsay Pollak by Lindsay Polla
Lip-Sticking by Yvonne DiVita (with Lena We...
Mixed Media Pendants
in The Jewelry Weblog, on August 3, 2007
...l is 14kt gold plated over pewter.
Here's another pendant called "Patron Saint of Eternal Optimism." It comes with a silver plated chain and the pendant is made using techniques similar...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 24
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 25, 2007
...next 20 years.
The problem arising from lofty predictions is not just that they spread unwarranted optimism. Even more troublesome is the fact that they corrode CEO behavior. Over the years, Charlie ...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 23
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 29, 2007
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us to consider a much wider range of investment opportunities than are available to us today. Our optimism about Berkshire's performance is also tempered by the expectation - indeed, in our mind...
Small Business Owners: Hows Your Mood?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on May 20, 2007
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According to the NFIB optimism of small business owners has been below average for 11 months. So does this reflect your outlook at all?
The NFIB's Small Business Optimism Index for Apri...
Steps in Starting a Startup Business
in Home Based Business, on April 10, 2007
...ique set of characteristics. You have to be willing to take calculated risks. In addition, a mix of optimism, high energy, and an ability to live with ambiguity are also crucial.
According to a recen...
The China Syndrome
in Sox First, on March 2, 2007
...s, almost double the average, according to news reports . The big question however is whether the optimism of some analysts is justified. As Wall Street's Dr Doom, morgan stanley 's h...
The Future of Jaguar & Aston Martin
in carzz.org, on January 30, 2007
...place in the automotive market for both of these marques and their closely related models?
I argue optimism in the ensuing piece ....
Will Apple's iPhone kickstart mobile video market?
in The Digital TV Weblog, on January 12, 2007
...ss model will evolve. The reaction from TV and media companies will be obvious--they'll express optimism to be "anywhere and everywhere" their consumers are. The iPhone will seem to be j...
10 small business pitfalls
in BootStrapMe, on January 4, 2007
...e, you'll eventually have to pay it all back.
5. Believe you will succeed but don't let optimism blind you
Check out my post " Keep your day job "
6. The Snowblind solopr...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 14
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on December 5, 2006
... an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
None of this means, however, that a business or s...
The Age of the Hillercopter
in The Aviation Weblog, on November 23, 2006
...ract to design and build his helicopters.
The language of the article has the humorously exuberant optimism not seen since the Sixties, but it's a great look back at the rise of aviation. Here ar...
You've Come a Long Way Baby
in Bizinformer, on October 24, 2006
...t women business owners have now surpassed the 10 million mark nationwide . When asked about their optimism for the future, 95% feel they are successful, 60% expect their companies' revenues to i...
Conrad "Che" Black's optimism
in Sox First, on October 15, 2006
Conrad Black, self-proclaimed freedom fighter , was in fine form the other night when he made an appearance at the Empire Club of Canada in downtown Toronto. Black, who is now trying to get his Canadian citizenship back, told reporters that he was optimistic about his chances at his trial ne...
Only You Can Prevent...Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on September 28, 2006
... risk. Yet even in the midst of widespread suffering, much of it unnecessary, there are reasons for optimism.
With proper education and support, our patients can make the diet and lifestyle changes t...
Economic Outlook: Small Business Optimism Slips In U.S.
in Small Business Unplugged, on September 20, 2006
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As a business owner my viewpoint is that business owners are just being realistic. Perhaps their optimism has slipped a bit but successful business owners are eternal optimists and look for ...
Colorado Awaits Wine
in Celebrate Wine, on August 30, 2006
... southwest corner of the state will eventually produce world-class wines. He isn't alone in his optimism. Growers and winemakers throughout the state say Colorado is a wine phenomenon waiting to h...
North Fork: The New Napa
in Celebrate Wine, on August 13, 2006
...etter, cleaner fruit. "It's an acknowledgment of what's been happening."
But the optimism stands in odd contrast to a second trend: the large number of for-sale signs that have begu...
The 'Diabetes Gene:' Would You Want To Know?
in Daily Diabetic, on July 31, 2006
... a chance I got lucky and didn't inherit whatever my mother had. A test could erode that bit of optimism.
Would you want to know?
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