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Reports of Wikipedia Editors Are Grossly Exaggerated
The Wikipedia page for John Updike claims to have last been modified today, on February 9, 2009. While Wikipedia allows unique disclaimers for subjects recently deceased—Updike died January 27th, of […]
What Would Ronald Reagan Do?
Bill Brown, a visiting professor of the practice of law at Duke University, says the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 is the best model for getting America out of […]
There is a Green Comet Gunning For Planet Earth
According to NASA, there is a green comet named Lulin approaching Earth. One astronomer calls it “a green beauty that could become visible to the naked eye any day now.” […]
Awaiting Return of the Buyout King
Investment banks, suddenly the target of pitchforks rather than perky Ivy Leaguers, are defunct. Hedge funds are all but wiped out—some of the remaining ones still in the game only […]
An Inconvienent Truth About Green-collar Jobs
Today kicks off the 2009 Green Jobs Conference in Washington, DC, hosted by the Blue Green Alliance, a coalition of labor groups such as SEIU and the United Steel Workers […]
The Even Darker Side of Corporate “Survival Mode”
Duke University’s Laura Brinn cautions that all the panicking that seems to be going on inside American corporations in response to the financial crisis—”canceling investments, scaling back projects, drawing on […]
The Times’ Pricey Printing Problem
I can already hear Andy Rooney complaining. In the continuing saga of the death of the newspaper, a recent thought experiment takes another punch at the New York Times. According […]
Is Hong Kong the New Bordeaux?
Having successfully built itself into a global center of the Hello Kitty trade, Hong Kong is setting its sights on a still greater conquest: the wine world. Dominated by the […]
Learn to Play the Bailout Game!
If Universal’s plan to produce a Monopoly movie directed by Ridley Scott didn’t fly, the Bailout Game is the obvious answer. Blue Earth Interactive, a web design firm based in […]
Auto Industry Woes
As a key player in this diminishing manufacturing base, change is something our industry has been dealing with for a long time.
How can businesses deal rising health care costs?
I normally would ask for a show of hands of who thinks their health insurance works for them and who knows how healthcare works and how it's going.