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GE To Pay Up Over Claims It Hid Billions In Troubled Assets During The Financial Crisis

Reuters | Posted 04.30.2013 | Business

* GE accused of hiding billions in troubled assets * About $200 bln market value lost during class period * GE says sett...

GE Takes Big Stand Against Gun Industry

Reuters | Posted 04.25.2013 | Business

By Ernest Scheyder April 24 (Reuters) - General Electric Co discovered it was financing a small number of firearm purchases in the wak...

Major Manufacturer To Let You Design New Gadgets

AP | Posted 04.11.2013 | Small Business

NEW YORK (AP) — GE says it is licensing thousands of patents to Quirky, a New York City startup that lets people collaborate on designing household ...

10 Companies Whose Offshore Profits Are Exploding

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.13.2013 | Business

Sending profits away keeps the taxman at bay. That's the motto that Apple, along with dozens of other companies, has subscribed to in an effort to...

Report: GE Keeps Billions Overseas To Avoid Taxes

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.11.2013 | Business

The company with the most profits parked overseas is General Electric, according to a new Bloomberg analysis of 83 corporations. GE said in a Feb. ...

GE Nominates Former Regulator To Its Board

Reuters | Posted 05.11.2013 | Business

March 11 (Reuters) - General Electric Co nominated Mary Schapiro, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to its board. ...

March 1st Has Come and Gone - Now What?

Camille Rivera | Posted 05.07.2013 | New York
Camille Rivera

Wwhile much of the pain may not be immediate, the sequester will soon take a horrible toll on all of us. To me it's just another reminder that the rich get richer while the rest of us just get screwed.

The Revolving Door Spins From Sea to Shining Sea

Bill Moyers | Posted 04.28.2013 | Politics
Bill Moyers

In 15 states, according to the progressive Center for Public Integrity, "there aren't any laws preventing legislators from resigning one day and registering as lobbyists the next."

8 Steps to Drive Innovation in Large Companies

Peter Diamandis | Posted 04.23.2013 | Business
Peter Diamandis

Most people want to be creative, but at big companies, they're often stymied by rules, regulations and fear of failure.

List Of SEC Nominee's Past Clients Raises Eyebrows

AP | By MARCY GORDON | Posted 04.10.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mary Jo White, President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, has represented an A-list of banks...

Radical Reform of the Tax System Is Urgently Needed

Allan Brawley | Posted 04.09.2013 | Business
Allan Brawley

Is what I am proposing pretty radical and does it face an uphill battle in Congress? Absolutely. But the stakes are enormous for the country and nickel-and-dime tinkering with the tax system will not fix the problem.

Why Onshoring High-tech Manufacturing Jobs Makes Economic Sense

Linda Mayer | Posted 03.26.2013 | Business
Linda Mayer

The shift toward electronics and other high-tech products requires different facilities and skill sets than the U.S. employed in its manufacturing heyday. And as a country we need to portray manufacturing as an attractive, stable career.

GE To Settle Claims It Misled Government Agency

Reuters | Posted 03.25.2013 | Business

NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - General Electric Co has agreed to settle a federal agency's lawsuit accusing it of misleading Freddie Mac into buying $...

Let's Make America the Creation Nation Again

Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam | Posted 03.12.2013 | Business
Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam

We define "Creation Nation" as a country in which the private and public sector collaborate to develop and commercialize innovative products and services that create businesses or business opportunities that grow the economy and generate good-paying, value-added jobs.

Chris Kirkham

CEOs Pan Fiscal Cliff 'Joke' As Corporate Purses Fill

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 01.05.2013 | Business

In the wake of this week's last-minute deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, executives at some of the nation's largest corporations have denounce...

What Would FDR Do?

Frances Causey | Posted 02.16.2013 | Politics
Frances Causey

If FDR were president today, my guess is he would not meet in secret with the House speaker to cut a backroom deal that would further hammer the 99 percent by reducing Medicare and Social Security benefits. Instead, FDR would call it like he saw it.

Poland Attracts U.S. Tech Giants As Its Universities Turn Out Engineering Grads

| Tom Marshall | Posted 12.12.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. WARSAW, Poland — Foreign companies flock to invest. Its balance sheet is the envy of Eur...

Innovation Rhetoric Is at an All-time High: Here's How to Turn Theory Into Practice

Michael Zacka | Posted 02.10.2013 | Business
Michael Zacka

It is hard to do -- especially since most think of innovation as seismic change brought about by all those much-heralded, mass-market disruptions dreamed up by boy geniuses and biotech scientists.

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein Wants Seniors to Get Less

Ethan Rome | Posted 01.27.2013 | Business
Ethan Rome

In the name of "fiscal responsibility," the self-interested CEOs animating Fix the Debt are pushing a deficit reduction plan that would lower taxes for corporations and the super-rich while slashing programs central to the middle class and those working their way into it.

Dow Has Worst Day In Months

AP | Posted 12.19.2012 | Business

NEW YORK (AP) — Poor corporate earnings reports are pounding the stock market in a sour end to an otherwise strong week. The Dow Jone...

Good News For GE

AP | JONATHAN FAHEY | Posted 12.19.2012 | Business

NEW YORK — General Electric Co.'s transformation into a more simple industrial company seems to be helping its bottom line. The top line, thoug...

Ex-GE Bankers Sent To Prison For Screwing Cities

Reuters | Posted 12.18.2012 | Business

* Defendants sentenced to three- and four-year prison terms * Three were charged as part of US probe of muni market * Ap...

Paul Blumenthal

Which Corporations Funded the RNC Convention?

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 10.18.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Republican National Convention in Tampa, where former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney accepted the presidential nomination of the Rep...

Jack Welch: I Should Have 'Added A Few Question Marks'

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 10.10.2012 | Business

Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch isn’t about to admit he’s wrong to be skeptical about September’s unemployment numbers. But he will confe...

Jack Welch Causes Controversy, Promptly Quits Jobs

Reuters | Posted 12.09.2012 | Business

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Jack Welch, the former chairman of General Electric who sparked an outcry with a tweet last week suggesting the Wh...