Facebook's much discussed IPO has generated a lot of discussion about the "real value" of the stock. Much of the information being disseminated is both inaccurate and harmful to investors.
Why is it that most Americans can't get a principal reduction from Chase or any other bank, but JPMorgan Chase was so very flexible with a sitting member of the United States Senate? People should be demanding those answers now.
Here is my bottom line: By all means, be as open as you want online; but realize that with openness can come vulnerabilities, especially for your children.
Insurance products, familiar for generations to those living in North America and Europe, are only now gaining a small foothold in China. It is possible that conventional insurance is simply failing to compete against a very ancient, financing mechanism: risk pooling.
One thing is certain thus far in the election cycle: we have two well-armed and savvy political teams that are unlikely to let any shot from the opposition go without response.
Whether or not there was any wrongdoing, the reasons for the Facebook flop are understandable. In many ways, this is an echo of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, when emotion triumphed over logic for long enough to drive Internet stocks to prices that could only fall.
The safety of our nation's workers is as important as the quality of meat we produce. We cannot sanction lost fingers, broken arms and severe musculoskeletal injuries for $90 million.
The emerging economic paradigm indicates that use of maritime armed guards will only increase. That means the private security companies that combat the pirates were earning much more than the pirates themselves. Thus piracy is good for at least some businesses.
Even though there is never a sure thing on Wall Street, many people thought this would be the exception. After all, it's Facebook we're talking about.
Anyone reading the U.S. press last year would have assumed the Euro would be dead by now. It isn't. Here's guessing the Euro will survive the current crisis -- which would be good not just for Europeans but for the world.
Rep. Shelley Berkley, the liberal Democratic Senate candidate trying to unseat Senator Dean Heller in November, is a gung-ho supporter of labor unions which highlights her tight relationship with Big Labor in her fights for office.
Austerity folks keep insisting starvation is the only way to recover from the biggest credit binge since the Great Depression. The latest example is House Republicans' passing of Paul Ryan's budget proposal that punishes the poor to pay for the excesses of the wealthiest.
CO-OPs could be one of the sleepers in the health care reform law that truly transforms how care is financed and delivered in this country. And they could even hasten the day when the big investor-owned corporations cede the marketplace to nonprofits and move on to other ways of earning a profit.
Not all small businesses are created equal and it's reasonable to say that the top 10 business tips for dental practices will not be the same as the top 10 tips for sandwich shops. I can feel your anticipation -- you must know these 10 golden nuggets. So here they are.
What if the Treasury borrowed $2 trillion dollars in a series of 100 year bond offerings at say 4.5%? Rather than have the government waste the money on unneeded projects or squander it on more bank bailouts, the $2 trillion of proceeds could be distributed to the American people.
To what extent should "what we do" define "who we are"? Like most philosophical questions, there is no simple answer.
HBCUs are broke. Students know it, alumni know it, corporations know it and the government knows it. Until now, HBCUs have prepared their students to be leaders in a range of industries.
But they haven't yet taught, with consistency, how to own these industries.
Here is a way for us to avoid the austerity trap that Europe has fallen into. And we get on with the long-term job of taming the budget deficit when the economy is healthy enough to do so.
Dan Solin, 2012.29.05
Joanne Bamberger, 2012.29.05