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Meteoric Business Innovation at MIT

Gideon Gartner | Posted 11.26.2011

Gideon Gartner

Many of my mechanical engineering learning experiences at MIT bored me to tears. One exception was an undergraduate course called "Creativity," which possibly influenced my entrepreneurial future.

Citigroup Customer Data Exposed In Computer Breach

Reuters | Posted 08.08.2011

June 9, 2011 3:37:53 AM Bangalore (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc confirmed a computer breach at Citi Account Online, giving hackers access to the da...

Fed's Dividends Decision Helps Shareholders, Might Hurt Taxpayers

The New York Times | Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Four groups of people were directly affected by the Federal Reserve's decision late last week to allow major banks to increase their dividends and to ...

Goldman Sachs's Hudson Mezzanine CDO Subect Of New Probe By SEC

bloomberg.com | Joshua Gallu and Christine Harper | Posted 05.25.2011

June 10 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s $2 billion Hudson Mezzanine collateralized debt obligation, sold in 2006, is the target of a probe b...

Goldman Turns Into a Financial Frankenstein While the Fed Snoozes Away

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Raymond J. Learsy

Goldman was not assisted by the government to become a voracious and even heftier investment bank. Rather, one can presume that the government's assistance was to prevent systemic failure.

Economics and the Power of Prediction

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert Teitelman

Economics gets its large and defining role in our world through the shamanistic believe that prediction is possible. Why would economists surrender such a "power"?

How The Press Failed Readers On The Changing Credit Card Industry

Columbia Journalism Review | Dean Starkman | Posted 05.25.2011

One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in the economy, not everyone does. In fact, most p...