Tag: business
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May 17, 2007 10:12 AM EDT --
The poor have always paid higher interest rates. But not as high as now. 25 percent on car loans. 30 on credit cards. 500 percent on payday loans. Rates so high that the poor have now become one of the . . .
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May 22, 2007 10:01 AM EDT --
Baby boomers are looking to retire. But their kids – twentysomething GEN Y’s – are just starting out, hitting the American workplace in waves. Flaunting their iPods with attitude, . . .
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May 29, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
It turns out the traditional career path was tough for many women. And with globalization, 24/7 demands and the emergence of “extreme work” in top corporate echelons, for many it’s just . . .
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May 08, 2007 09:18 AM EDT --
In the mid-'90s, when Bill Clinton looked to reform American health care, American business swung in with a vengeance to help kill the initiative. Now, with health care costs threatening to swamp major . . .
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January 30, 2008 11:27 AM EST --
For the global economy, China and India may be the big story of the 21st century. Their politics and paths to economic development have been starkly different. But together, says Tarun Khanna, . . .
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May 02, 2007 04:30 PM EDT --
There are good bosses, and then there are bad bosses. Not just bad, says business humorist Stanley Bing, but crazy bad -- “Crazy Bosses,” as the Fortune magazine columnist calls his new . . .
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July 03, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
How thirsty is America for bottled water? Pretty darned thirsty.
Every week of the year we now move a billion bottles of water from ground to gullet in ships and trains and trucks. That's the equivalent . . .
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January 29, 2008 11:38 AM EST --
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi may have been sitting right behind the President last night. Hillary Clinton could be the next president. But the tip top of corporate power in America is still - overwhelmingly . . .
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July 21, 2008 09:39 AM EDT --
Budweiser Beer – the Great American Lager – is Belgian now.
In Europe, Asia and the Middle East, foreign companies are going global. And with the dollar so weak, US companies look . . .
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April 11, 2007 10:18 AM EDT --
On Point is looking today at the debate on the future of jobs in America. Free trader Alan Blinder says we may not be able to stand the job losses screaming toward us now. Jagdish Bhagwati says that's . . .
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July 29, 2008 11:19 AM EDT --
Have you heard of nagflation? Of a seagull manager? How about cockroach theory, jumping the shark, boiling the frog, running up the flagpole?
A new book by Gregory Bergman sets out to share some choice . . .
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June 25, 2007 11:34 AM EDT --
Private equity is a fancy name for a simple operation. Big dealmakers round up billions, buy companies, strip them down, add debt and resell. Done right, it can add efficiency to the US economy. Done right . . .
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October 10, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
Back in the day, American business schools had a tough time fighting their way onto American university campuses. Academics didn't see what they taught as a serious profession worthy of a spot. B-schools . . .
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