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Steve Parker

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Nissan Leaf EV launched in USA

Steve Parker | Posted November 15, 2009 | Business


In 1947, Tokyo Electric Cars Company built a lead-acid battery powered EV delivery truck called the Tama which it sold through 1950, when oil supplies and prices stabilized after WWII (cars and trucks were also powered by flammable gasses captured from on-board wood-burning stoves in Europe and Japan in those...

Rich Nadworny

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Watch for More Hybrid Marketing in 2010

Rich Nadworny | Posted November 14, 2009 | Media


There's no doubt that 2009 was the year of social media. Everyone, from small business owners to multinational brands, wanted to talk about it at every opportunity. I've never seen more excitement and interest in digital marketing than the response to social media. From small chambers of commerce meetings to...

Alison van Diggelen

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Paul Krugman's Advice for Obama Job Summit

Alison van Diggelen | Posted November 14, 2009 | Business


Silicon Valley -- Paul Krugman shared some wisdom last night about the White House Job Summit, which President Obama announced earlier in the day. The Nobel Prize winner for Economics was in Silicon Valley as part of the Foothill College Celebrity Forum Lecture Series. In an exclusive interview, he was...

Jenny Darroch

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Can Strong Brand Management Practices Hinder Career Opportunities?

Jenny Darroch | Posted November 14, 2009 | Business


A recent article in BusinessWeek (September 14, 2009) identified the organizations headhunters look to when trying to identify management talent. General Electric, IBM and Hewlett-Packard were cited as organizations that develop executives who thrive elsewhere, The Coca-Cola Company does not.

The reason given is that "the very attributes that make...

Steve Parker

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Radio's auto shows this weekend

Steve Parker | Posted November 14, 2009 | Business


Join us LIVE Saturday at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern (NEW TIME!) and Sunday at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern on www.TalkRadioOne.com for our exclusive LIVE motoring and motorsports talk shows!

Steve Parker's The Car Nut Show
NEW TIME! Join us LIVE every Saturday at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern

Nissan's all-new 2011 Leaf "pure...

Don McNay

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Lottery Winners and Lottery Losers

Don McNay | Posted November 15, 2009 | Business


This is a link to an interview I did with Mark Kelley on his prime time CBC show about the pitfalls that lottery winners and others who receive big money have to deal with.  

My segment of the show starts at about the 47 minute mark and lasts for...

Sam Gustin

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Suspicious trading before HP's $2.7 billion 3Com bid; SEC closed for holiday

Sam Gustin | Posted November 13, 2009 | Business


Somebody get the SEC on the phone, stat! Oh wait, they were closed Wednesday for Veterans Day.

Suspicious activity in the options market for 3Com (COMS) raised concerns late Wednesday that news of computer and printer maker Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) $2.7 billion purchase of the networking company was leaked before...

Lloyd Chapman

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Obama Small Business Forum Could Create Loophole for Venture Capitalists

Lloyd Chapman | Posted November 13, 2009 | Business


On November 18, the Obama Administration will hold a small business forum to "determine what additional steps we can take to get credit flowing to small businesses that want to expand and create more jobs." As of the close of business on Friday, November 13, at 5 p.m. PST, the...

Dan Dorfman

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If Only Goldfinger Had Just Waited

Dan Dorfman | Posted November 13, 2009 | Business


If only Goldfinger had just waited

One of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous stories was The Gold-Bug. Written in 1843, it dealt with a man, William Legrand, who was deemed to be mentally ill because he was obsessed with finding gold after being bitten by the gold bug. He...

Ron Ashkenas

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Health Care Reform Through an M&A Lens

Ron Ashkenas | Posted November 13, 2009 | Business


Here's a completely different perspective on the pending passage of a health care reform bill: If the U.S. government were a corporation, the new health care "division" would represent a major acquisition. This division would have an operating budget of approximately $100 billion per year and could have as many...

Rep. Paul Kanjorski

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The End of 'Too Big to Fail'

Rep. Paul Kanjorski | Posted November 13, 2009 | Business


"Too big to fail" must die. I am preparing legislation to empower federal regulators to rein in and dismantle financial firms that are so large, inter-connected, or risky that their collapse would put at risk the entire American economic system, even if those firms currently appear to be well-capitalized...

Eric Lotke

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What Chinese Currency Manipulation Looks Like

Eric Lotke | Posted November 13, 2009 | Business


As President Obama packs for China, I thought I'd show him a picture of how China is manipulating its currency.

2009-11-12-YuanmanipulationCAFw.JPG Source: Federal Reserve: Yuan, Broad dollar index. Graphic idea compliments of AAM.

The dollar stays flat against...

George Goehl

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Who Will Hold Goldman Accountable? - Might Just be Everyday People

George Goehl | Posted November 13, 2009 | Business


Whether it is Goldman Sachs' central role in the subprime crisis, handing out hundreds of millions in bonuses soon after receiving a $10 billion taxpayer bailout, or CEO Lloyd Blankfein claiming that his company does "God's work," this Wall Street giant has rightfully earned the leading role in the story...

Sen. Byron Dorgan

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My Financial Plan

Sen. Byron Dorgan | Posted November 13, 2009 | Politics


Ten years ago yesterday, our country made a fateful decision — to repeal the New Deal-era regulations that protected our banking system from excessive risk.

As Dan Froomkin wrote on Huffington Post yesterday, I predicted at the time that letting traditional banks merge with investment banks could lead to...

Bruce Judson

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Can The Free Market Save Small Businesses and Nonprofits?

Bruce Judson | Posted November 13, 2009 | Business


The fantasy of conservatives and progressives alike is that the free market will solve the increasingly desperate woes of small businesses and nonprofits. It's not entirely impossible, but it does require an entirely new way of thinking about the problems of these struggling entities.

Earlier this week, we announced a...

Michael Wolff

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Does Warren Buffett Know What He's Talking About?

Michael Wolff | Posted November 13, 2009 | Business


Nobody I know who is smart and rich (albeit much less rich than they used to be) thinks the economy is patched up and ready to roll--except, apparently, Warren Buffet (who I don't actually know), who announced yesterday that "the financial panic is behind us."

But then he...

Harry Moroz

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The Dilemma's Innovator

Harry Moroz | Posted November 13, 2009 | Politics


Friday's New York Times op-ed page contains a necessary, albeit anachronistic, criticism of the tax credit for first-time homebuyers, a "proposal" supported by Senator Chris Dodd. John Carney of ClusterStock and The BusinessInsider argues against extending and expanding the credit. Evidently, he didn't realize that Congress has already...

Curtis

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Make Everything Your Own

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson | Posted November 13, 2009 | Books


The following is an excerpt from The 50th Law, adapted for HuffPost.

When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed. What keeps you in such positions is a fear of having to sink or swim...

Majora Carter

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Our Most 'Expensive' Citizens Can Become Our Climate Change Heroes

Majora Carter | Posted November 13, 2009 | Business


As part of the Roosevelt Institute's 10-part series on the Jobs Crisis, running on the New Deal 2.0 blog from Nov. 12-25, I was asked to reflect on what can be done to get Americans working again. Here's my take.

People with jobs are better off than people...

Raymond J. Learsy

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Thank You, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, For Educating Us On Oil Prices

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted November 15, 2009 | Business


The oil patch mumbo jumbo continues unabated. Today, Rex Tillerson, the CEO of the nation's largest oil company, Exxon, took a minute or two to instruct us about the reasons for the current price of oil. This is the same personage who, a while back informed us, his customers,...

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