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Banana Ben Strikes Again

Michael Pento | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: National Debt, Global Currency, Federal Reserve, Dollar, Currency, Business News, China, Ben Bernanke, Price of Oil, Business News
Michael Pento

The world's reserve currency can't inflate its way to prosperity. The danger of causing a disorderly decline of the dollar is very high.

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Jason Linkins

WaPo Jumps On "Underwear As Economic Indicator" Beat

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Hanes Brand, Greenspan Underwear, Underwear Sales Greenspan, Mintel Underwear, Media Criticism, Underwear for Men, Mens Underwear Sales, Underwear Men, Underwear, Underwear Sales, Men's Underwear Economy, Greenspan and Underwear, Greenspan Npr, Business News, Washington Post, Alan Greenspan, Mens Underwear, Alan Greenspan Mens Underwear, Men Underwear, Underwear Sales Down, Greenspan Economy, Mintel, Media News

The Washington Post has some good news for everyone during these recessionary times: your recovery may be jobless, but more and more, people are buyin...

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Good Riddance, Cash for Clunkers

Alan Schram | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Deficit, Trade Deficit, Stimulus Package, Cash for Clunkers, Business News, Aig, Credit Crisis, China, Business News
Alan Schram

Washington is experimenting with bogus stimulus, such as the "cash for clunkers" program. Taxing Peter to subsidize Paul's new car is not a recipe for sound economic growth.

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Too Soon to Call a Housing Bottom

Alan Schram | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Mortgages, Housing Crisis, Housing Bubble, Economic Recovery, Economy, Recession, Business News
Alan Schram

Consensus seems to be that the housing market bottomed. But I have my doubts.

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Obama Administration Fabricates Small Business Contracting Data

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Abuse, Federal Government, Small Business Administration, Freedom of Information Act, Business News, Sba, Asbl, Contracting, American Small Business League, Loopholes, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Under Obama, the same Fortune 500 firms that were allowed to receive small business contracts during the Bush Administration continue to receive federal small business contracts.

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Income Inequality: Can We Tax Our Way Out of Trouble?

Alan Schram | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Taxes, Financial Crisis, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Income Inequality, Dollar, Business News
Alan Schram

The top 1% of incomes in the country paid 40% of all personal income tax in 2007. You might think this is fair, and maybe it is. However, higher taxes on the top income will spawn a different problem.

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Small Business Issues Should Be Big News in Mainstream Media

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Asbl, Small Business, Fraud, Contracting, Obama Administration, Goaling Report, Barack Obama, American Small Business League, Business News, Cit, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Commercials targeted at small business owners are becoming more common. . It seems advertisers on major television networks have figured out something news producers haven't.

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Trouble Looming in China

Alan Schram | Posted 09.02.2009 | Business

Read More: World Trade Organization, Great Recession, Dollar, Business News, Credit Crisis, China, Saving Money, Financial Crisis, Business News
Alan Schram

The Chinese economy is posting impressive growth of almost 8% annually, even as the rest of the world is going through excruciating economic pain. How is that resilience possible?

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Last Week in India: Hillary Clinton, Landslides and Opportunities

Eve Blossom | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: Floods, India, Artisans, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Business News, Hillary Clinton, Business, Sustainable, Outsourcing to India, World News
Eve Blossom

India has a wonderful cultural and economic opportunity with a strategic competitive advantage in their incredibly skilled individuals, from textiles, furniture and basketry to woodcarving.

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High Frequency Trading Programs Ripping Investors Off

Alan Schram | Posted 08.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Oversight, Regulation, Financial Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Bailout, High-Frequency-Trading, Business News
Alan Schram

In recent years, a confluence of factors created a new reality in the world of equity trading.

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California Currency? A Taste of Things to Come Unless Percora II Helps Us Leave Discredited Economic Dogma Behind

Marshall Auerback | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Financial Crisis, California, Congress Financial Crisis Investigation, New Deal, Pecora Commission, New Deal 2.0, Business News
Marshall Auerback

As California's IOUs signal desperation, Roosevelt Braintruster Marshall Auerback suggests that a Pecora-style Commission could help the public recognize the folly of past economic dogmas.

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Full Investigation of Crisis is Vital to Democracy

Jeff Madrick | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Business News, Financial Crisis, Congress Financial Crisis Investigation, New Deal, Pecora Commission, New Deal 2.0, Politics News
Jeff Madrick

The only way to to rigorously address the issues in the broken finance system is through a Congressional investigation, since the Obama administration has called for no public accounting.

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Failure To Assess Responsibility For Crisis Means Bad History, Bad Policy And Bad Politics

Daniel Berger | Posted 08.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Business News, Financial Investigation, Congress Financial Crisis Investigation, New Deal, Pecora Commission, New Deal 2.0, Home News
Daniel Berger

The time has come to investigate the nature, origins, propagation and effects of the financial crisis.

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Banks Should Face the Truth

Alan Schram | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Tarp, Banks, Global Financial Crisis, Fdic, Real Estate, Subprime Loans, Business News
Alan Schram

Is it possible that all that money spent is at best doing nothing more than delaying the inevitable, and at worst exacerbating the very problem it was meant to solve?

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Jason Linkins

Google Posts Advertising 'Spin Document' Online

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital Media, Video, Business News, Transparency, Google Operating System, Privacy, Internet Privacy, Google, Media News

Yesterday, we reported that Consumer Watchdog had obtained, and provided satiric annotations for, a "spin document" that Google had presented as a par...

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Change The Gears In Your Fears

Jen Groover | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Business News, Women Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Business, Living News
Jen Groover

Too many have been programmed to immediately identify why we shouldn't follow our passions instead of first considering all the happiness and vitality that doing so would bring.

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Manufacturing and the Limits of Comparative Advantage

Ralph Gomory | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Global Economy, Economics, David Ricardo, Economic Crisis, Comparative Advantage, Free Trade, Globalization, Ralph Gomory, Business, Ralph-Gomory, Warren Buffet, Global Economic Crisis, US Economy, u.s. Economy Problems, Economic Policy, Jeffrey Immelt, Corporate America, Trade, Financial TImes, Business News, Ceo, Free Market, Fair Trade, Business News
Ralph Gomory

Vague talk about future innovations, a post-industrial society, or an explosion of services exports is not the stuff on which to bet the prosperity of a nation.

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Clarity and Intention in Business and Life

Jen Grisanti | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Small Business, The American Dream, Books, American Dream, Business News, Morality, Clarity, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Intentions, Intention, Living News
Jen Grisanti

How do we turn our dreams into a reality? We approach life knowing our purpose and tapping into the power of intention as well as moving past the fear.

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From Tallest to Most Efficient

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Business News, Sustainability, Sears Tower, Leed, Green Buildings, Chicago, Green News
Jonathan A. Schein

The owners of the Sears Tower have announced plans to upgrade the building for sustainability, which will make it the tallest building in the western hemisphere to undergo such an overhaul to date.

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Debt, Inflation and the Stock Market

Alan Schram | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Debt, Ben Bernanke, Inflation, Stock Market, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News
Alan Schram

It should be obvious to all that we can't get out from under our mountain of debt through spending.

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Mastermind Your Success

Jen Groover | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Women Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur, Business, Business Advice, Business News
Jen Groover

Ideas need collective input from different perspectives to develop. When a group is able to brainstorm and meditate together on one idea, that idea has no choice but to grow.

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Obama's Schooling the Bank on Transparency

Chad Dobson | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Disclosure, Ifi, Open Government, Multilateral Development Banks, World Bank, Bretton Woods System, Business News, Imf, Freedom of Information, Obama Transparency, Business News
Chad Dobson

Over the past five months, President Obama has made great strides in improving transparency within the USG. Mr. Zoellick and his team of experts over at the World Bank could stand to learn a thing or two from the U.S. Government.

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Financial Reform: Don't Abandon It to Regulators

Alan Schram | Posted 07.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Business News, Regulation, Financial Crisis, Bailout, Hedge Funds, Business News
Alan Schram

The Obama plan for financial regulatory reform ignores the source of the problems and instead picks the wrong solutions, mostly in the form of enhanced regulatory oversight.

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Closing the Climate Change Accounting Loophole -- With a Billboard

Mindy S. Lubber | Posted 07.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Business News, Financial Crisis, Climate Change, Smart Meter, Carbon Footprint, New York News
Mindy S. Lubber

Flashy billboards are usually not my thing, but it's hard not to be grabbed by the 67-by-32-foot billboard unveiled today outside New York City's Penn Station.

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Who's Got Your Back: Don't Fear Conflict (Part 5 of 5)

Keith Ferrazzi | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Self-Help, Leadership, Keith Ferrazzi, Living News, President Barack Obama, Career Advice, Advice, Recession, Lifestyle, Health, Who's Got Your Back, Business, Diet, Success, Home News, Keith-Ferrazzi, Bestseller, Personal Health, Conflict, Serialization, Weight Loss, Rahm Emanuel, Never Eat Alone, Business News, Books, Accountability, Conflict Resolution, Teamwork, Living, Mentor, Small Business, Living News
Keith Ferrazzi

Conflict forces groups to pause and reflect on the current situation, to bring everyone up to speed, and to try to improve upon the status quo.

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