Latinos In The Age of influence
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Alan Grayson | Posted June 2, 2012
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...
Mohamed A. El-Erian | Posted June 2, 2012
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...
Dennis Santiago | Posted June 1, 2012
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....
David Paradice | Posted June 1, 2012
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...
Miriam Axel-Lute | Posted June 1, 2012
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...
Dave Lauer | Posted June 1, 2012
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...
Vivian Norris | Posted June 1, 2012
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...
Ali Noorani | Posted June 1, 2012
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...
Eric K. Clemons | Posted June 1, 2012
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...
Paul Stoller | Posted June 1, 2012
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...
Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted June 1, 2012
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...
Larry Magid | Posted June 1, 2012
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,...
Robert Siciliano | Posted June 1, 2012
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...
Andrew Wilkes | Posted June 1, 2012
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...
Diane Swonk | Posted June 1, 2012
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,...
Dave Johnson | Posted June 1, 2012
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...
Sudio Sudarsan | Posted June 1, 2012
The most intimate team to its fans, the cricket brand of the common man, CSK, triumphs the kitsch of Bollywood and the pursestrings of India's rich to be the most valuable IPL cricket team.
Most of the greatest sports brands...
Thomas A. Bass | Posted June 1, 2012
In the novels of doctor-turned-writer Robin Cook, health-insurance companies are so predatory that they not only charge outsized fees but also kill you. They engineer contagious epidemics to eliminate expensive customers. Profit is their sole motive, which Cook considers an outrageous betrayal of his medical oath. "I am...
Bill Moyers | Posted June 1, 2012
We had the perfect headline all picked out for this piece but our colleague Paul Waldman at The American Prospect magazine beat us to the punch:
"It's Hard Out There for a Billionaire."
You see, according to Politico.com, the so-called "mega-donors," unleashed by Citizens United and pouring boundless big...
Elianne Ramos | Posted June 3, 2012