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Unhappy With Your Bank? Blame Silicon Valley

Patrice Peyret | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Mastercard, Credit Cards, Financial Services, Visa, Debit Cards, Venture Capitalists, Venture Capital, Business News
Patrice Peyret

Given the misdeeds of the banking industry, the financial services sector could make huge improvements simply by focusing on serving the ill-served with better, faster and cheaper products.

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Lehman Brothers Art Collection For Sale

businessinsider.com | Lawrence Delevingne | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Freeman's, Lichtenstein, Financial Services, Lehman Brothers, Dick Fuld, Business News

On November 1st, Philadelphia auction house Freeman's is holding the first of two sales of nearly 700 pieces from Lehman Brothers' private art collect...

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Sexism and the Workplace: Have We Come a Long Way (Baby)?

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Fiancial Crisis, Microcredit, Elinor Ostrom, Workplace, Financial Services, France, Elizabeth Warren, Sexism, Obama Administration, Sheila Baer, Feminism, Mad Men, Ann Dunham Soetoro, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

The reality is that, even if you are a female executive at Goldman Sachs, you will never be part of the "boys' club" -- and guess what, it's still a boys' club.

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Are States' Rights Right?

Harry Moroz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preemption, Marijuana, Financial Services, Education, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Progressives, Urban Policy, Health Care, States' Rights, Politics News
Harry Moroz

Democrats have been increasingly willing to embrace state -- and local -- governments as partners rather than adversaries in both oversight and in substantive policymaking.

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Are You Making the Most of the First Six Months?

Jon Younger | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, PNC Financial, JP Morgan, Employees, Financial Services, Recruiting, Human Resources, Accenture, Business, Management, Business News
Jon Younger

How do you make the most of the opportunity to bind new employees to the organization through the ways you induct, orient and initially support an employee's cultural integration?

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A Surprisingly Successful G-20 Summit

Georges Ugeux | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

Read More: Emerging Nations, G-20 Summit, Financial Services, Bank of International Settlements, Voting Rights, President Barack Obama, G-8, Global Governance, G-7, Financial Crisis, Imf, Pittsburgh, Bonuses, Board for Financial Stability, World Bank, Istanbul, World News
Georges Ugeux

This year, President Obama drove a very different agenda -- one focused on discussing how the world can form global governance and cooperate to stimulate the ailing economies.

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The Impact of the Economic Crisis on New York City Business

Kathryn Wylde | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Kathy Wylde, Harlem, Retail Sales, Financial Services, Urban Policy, New York Real Estate, Charles Rangel, David Paterson, Lehman Brothers, Economic Crisis, Fiscal Crisis, Financial Crisis, Harlem New York, Partnership for New York City, New York City, New York News
Kathryn Wylde

For small business, the recession will be a difficult trial, but it may turn out to provide the wake up call that New York City and State needed to support entrepreneurial companies.

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Free and The Search for Economic Innovation

Don McNay | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Lawyers, Small Business, Sales, Professional Services, Smoking, Service Providers, Washington, Political Consulting, Political Polling, Brownsville Station, Main Street, Entrepreneurs, Psychology, Chris Anderson, The Long Tail, China, Economic Wellness, Wellness, Tavern, Financial Services, Doctors in China, Financial Crisis, Reversible Business Models, Quitting Smoking, Rock and Roll Bands, Technology, Richmond, Lottery Winners, Personal Finance, CD Baby, Trial Lawyers, McNay Settlement Group, Msfs, Structured Settlement, Bars, Lotteries, Chfc, Economic Crisis, Free, Kentucky, Gym, Don McNay, Ky, Clu, Structured Settlements, Wired Magazine, Gym in Denmark, Wall Street, Vanderbilt University, Amercian College, Eastern Kentucky University, Million Dollar Round Table, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, Cssc, Denmark, Wired, Derek Strivers, Business News
Don McNay

As we look at life after the financial crisis, we need to turn traditional thinking on its head. Picking up a copy of Chris Anderson's Free is a good place to start.

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Toward Nonprofit Financial Services

Shawn Bayern | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Mutual Funds, Financial Services, Retirement, Banking, Nonprofits, Financial Crisis, Saving Money, Personal Finance, Business News
Shawn Bayern

Bankers are not popular right now. I have friends who have taken to calling them "banksters," a term that apparently dates back to the Great Depression and now gets 300,000 Google hits.

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Make Banking Boring, Again

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Investment Banking, Banking, Financial Services, Regulation, World Economic Summit, Business News
Paul Abrams

Banking should be boring for the very same reason that driving on I-5 or down Main Street should be boring.

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Stop the Financial Services "Super Czar" (Updated)

Don McNay | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Fiddler on the Roof, Wall Street Bailout, Populism, Hank Paulson, Shelia Bair, Main Street, Regulation, Bailout, Insurance, Obama Average Americans, Washington, Kentucky, Constitution, Wall Street Bonuses, Lexington KY, National-Association-of-Insurance-Commissioners, Personal Finance, State-Insurance-Regulators, Fdic, Financial Services, Systemic-Risk, Aig, Don McNay, Representative-Government, Insurance Companies, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Barack Obama, Wall Street Regulators, Tim Geithner, Deregulation, Car Czar, Banking Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Systemic Risk Regulator, House Financial Services Committee, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Don McNay

There has been talk about appointing a new "Systemic Risk Regulator." This "Super Czar" would oversee all of the financial services industry. We had a "Super Czar" last year. His name was Henry Paulson.

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Paulson Policy Failures

Alan Schram | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, John Thain, Market Crash, Credit Crunch, Fannie Mae, Hedge Funds, Libor, S&P 500, Dollar, Fdic, Money Market Funds, Merrill Lynch, Aig, Freddie Mac, Wall Street, Bailout, Financial Services, Lehman Brothers, Business News, Banks, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Warren Buffett, Bear Stearns, Bank Deposits, Subprime Mortgages, Saving Money, Dow, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Alan Schram

The Treasury's policy did nothing to build confidence or stabilize the markets. The precipitous drop of the equity markets in October and November are the market's judgment on their policies.

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End the Bailout

Alan Schram | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Insurance Companies, Winston Churchill, Credit Crunch, Libor, S&P 500, Fdic, Money Market Funds, Dollar, Paulson, Bailout, Wall Street, Financial Services, Business News, Banks, Financial Crisis, Bank Deposits, Subprime Mortgages, Saving Money, Dow, Tarp, Genworth, Business News
Alan Schram

Paulson is now on his third plan for how to spend the cash Congress gave him. Nobody knows what he will do next.

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Do You Have One Of The Worst Jobs For The 21st Century?

Forbes | Brian Wingfield | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Health Care, Worst Jobs, Financial Services, Education, Business News

Health care, education and financial services -- if you're looking for work in the coming decades, these are the fields to get into. What to avoid? T...

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