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June 3, 2012

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$33 Barrel Oil Now and Forever -- With Leadership!

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted June 3, 2012

Read More: Gas & Oil , New Deal, North Dakota, President Roosevelt, T.V.A., Gas Prices Obama, Shale Oil, Shale Oil Environment, Shale Oil North Dakota, Shale Oil Obama

One month after President Obama was sworn into office the price of crude oil for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was $33/barrel. Many thought it an anomaly, but it was a much truer reflection of the real price of oil on a genuine supply demand criteria than oil's price today.

The...

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Latinos In The Age of influence

Elianne Ramos | Posted June 3, 2012

Read More: Hispanic Marketing, Latinos Online, Latinos Social Media, Marketing To Hispanics, Online Influence, Social Media

"Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power."
~ Henry George

On...

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Yesterday: The Lowest Interest Rates in History

Alan Grayson | Posted June 2, 2012

Read More: Economic Crisis, Economic Downturn, Treasury Notes, Bonds, Mainstream Media, News, Treasury, Unemployment Rate

Yesterday, the 10-year Treasury note hit its lowest interest rate in history. For the third day in a row.

I didn't hear that reported. Did you?

Treasury notes started trading in substantial amounts during World War I, almost 100 years ago. Until Wednesday of this week, the lowest interest rate...

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Investors Brace for Global Slowdown

Mohamed A. El-Erian | Posted June 2, 2012

Read More: Economic Crisis, Jobs Report, Eurozone Crisis, Eurozone Debt Crisis, Global Slowdown, Long-Term Unemployment, May Jobs Report, Risk Assets, Unemployment Rate

The insufficient job creation, stagnant earnings and alarming long-term unemployment highlighted by May's disheartening jobs report underscore America's persistent unemployment crisis. The numbers also speak to a synchronized slowdown that is now taking hold of the global economy -- a phenomenon that is being signaled by...

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Credit Unions Just Got a Little More Transparent

Dennis Santiago | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Credit Markets, Economic Recovery, Institutional Risk Analytics, Credit Union, Credit Unions, Dennis Santiago, Move Your Money

In December 2009, my friend Arianna Huffington called with this idea to educate "ordinary" people about the financial system. At the time, I directed Institutional Risk Analytics to prepare and launch a pro bono zip code tool to search for best of breed small and mid-sized banks....

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Time to Change the Focus of Business Education

David Paradice | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Business School, Business College, Business Curriculum, Business Education, Business Professor, Business Student, Business Teacher

In spite of every indication that organizational decision making often involves an integrated perspective of the functional areas of business, many business-school curricula produce functional-area majors who do not have a grasp of the overall business context. Our accounting programs produce great accountants. Our marketing programs produce great marketers. But...

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6 Steps to Stabilize High-Foreclosure Neighborhoods

Miriam Axel-Lute | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Bank Loan Modification, Buying Homes, Foreclosure, Homebuying, Loan Modifications, Loans

1. Don't Let the Lenders Lie. When lenders and servicers say they can't modify the principal on a loan because it's in a security and their securitization agreements don't let them, they're lying. They may not be doing it on purpose, but they are. None other than Ocwen, one of...

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It Ain't Rocket Surgery: The Skewed Incentives and Dangerous Consequences of High-Frequency Trading

Dave Lauer | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Great Recession, Stock Market, Finance, High-Frequency Trading, Trading

During my appearance on NPR's Marketplace last week, I discussed why I left the high-frequency trading (HFT) business. When I learned that I was about to become a father, I was forced to re-examine many things in my life, not the least of which was a profession that added...

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Germany's Solar Success and Fukushima's Crisis: Intelligent Energy Priorities

Vivian Norris | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Green Party, Nils Boehmer, Norbet Allnoch, Till Stenzel, Bellona, Chernobyl, Earthquake, Europe, Fuel Pools, Fukushima, Germany, Grid Electricity, Iaea, Italy, Iwr, Japan, Meltdown, Nuclear, Radiation, Reactor, Renewables, Solar Power, Tepco, Tsunami, Tunisia, Tunur, Who

Last weekend, events took place which should make us think about the future of energy on this planet. Firstly, radioactive bluefish tuna was caught off the coast of California. The radioactivity, though in fairly small amounts, could be directly traced to the releases from the disasters at the...

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To Create Jobs, Fix Immigration

Ali Noorani | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: STEM Jobs, Agriculture Immigrants, Immigration STEM, Immigration Agriculture, Immigration Jobs, Immigration Reform, Jobs, Stem, Stem Degrees

Right under the noses of pro-business Republicans and Democrats is an anti-business immigration system that impedes innovation and puts family farmers out of business.

Let me be clear: Far too many of our fellow Americans are out of work. Our economy cannot grow fast enough to ease...

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Does Anyone Need a Facebook Phone? Only If It's Part of a New Facebook Strategy

Eric K. Clemons | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Facebook App, Facebook Google, Facebook Phone, Facebook Phone Value, Facebook Vs Google, Phone Facebook App

Qn: So is a Facebook phone a good idea for Facebook? Isn't every smart phone already a Facebook phone, as long as it has a Facebook app?

Ans: Is a Facebook phone a good idea for Facebook? That depends on whether or not any of us would want...

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Campus Crusade

Paul Stoller | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, Business, Free Enterprise, Higher Education, Obama Education, President Obama, Romney Education, Romney Full Sail University

There's going to be a lot of election talk about education between now and the time the voters finally go to the polls in November to elect a president. Both GOP nominee Mitt Romney and President Obama are going to try to convince college students and their parents -- a...

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'Social Security' Could Be the Future of Insurance

David Thomson | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Cii, Facebook, Future Risk, Insurance, Social Media, Social Media Mistakes, Twitter

There have been many instances in the news of late of consumers and corporations in trouble as a result of social media antics. A young girl was recently surprised to find a picture of herself on a t-shirt in Tesco, and accused the supermarket giant of copying the image from...

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SEC Should Use Wall Street Technology to Detect Corporate Crime

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Financial Reform, JPMorgan Chase, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Securities And Exchange Commission, Wall Street, Bernie Madoff, Corporate Crime, Enron, Facebook, Quantitative, Quants, Sec

In my article last week on funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Wall Street Reform: Taking a Knife to a Gunfight"), I advocated increasing the budget for the agency to better enable it to police Wall Street. Now I want to present a specific idea about how...

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Facebook's Real Value Unrelated to its Stock Price

Larry Magid | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Facebook IPO, Facebook Value, Facebook

All of the pre-IPO hype and post-IPO letdown completely misses the point when it comes to Facebook. Although Wall Street may see it differently, Facebook's main task is not about making a quick buck. It's about slowly and methodically building a sustainable business that's both financially profitable and socially useful,...

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May's Disappointing Jobs Report

Chad Stone | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Economic Recovery, Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment Extension, Economy, Long-Term Unemployment, Slidepollajax, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Unemployment Insurance

Today's disappointing employment report shows that the labor market remains far below full strength. The unemployment rate edged up to 8.2 percent and forecasters expect it to remain near 8 percent by the end of the year, which has important implications for the current temporary federal unemployment insurance (UI) program....

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Online Banking vs. Mobile Banking

Robert Siciliano | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Hackers, Mobile Security, Online Banking

While PC-based online banking is not much older than a high school student, mobile banking is still in elementary school. With the proliferation of smartphones, however, online banking's younger sibling is quickly catching up to the slightly more established option.

Banking through your PC's web browser offers a full menu...

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Now, Not Later: Increasing New York State's Minimum Wage

Andrew Wilkes | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Christianity, Economy, Faith-Based Activism, Governor Cuomo, Jobs, Living Wage, Minimum Wage

Governor Cuomo has an opportunity to exercise economic leadership on behalf of the Empire State's most vulnerable families. Despite his characterizations, raising the state's minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 can and should be done. According to a recent Siena College poll, 79 percent of New York State...

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Employment Disappoints AGAIN

Diane Swonk | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Jobs Report, Economy, Job Numbers, Jobs, May Jobs Report, Unemployment

Payroll employment increased by a paltry 69,000 in May and was revised down significantly for April and March. Those were the first back-to-back downward revisions we have seen in 20 months and mimic a pattern in weekly jobless claims. Initial jobless claims have been moving back up in recent weeks,...

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Jobs: It Is (Long Past) Time for Government to Act

Dave Johnson | Posted June 1, 2012

Read More: Austerity, Energy, Infrastructure, Jobs, May Jobs Report, Monthly Jobs Report, Obama Jobs, Obama May Jobs Report, Safety Net

Combine a too-optimistic administration with a Republican Party that is sabotaging the economy as a campaign strategy and what do you get? You get today's terrible jobs report. First, though, remember that the economy lost 818,000 jobs in the last month of the Bush presidency. The stimulus at...

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