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Splash! Could that be the sound of Lord Mandelson hitting one of the Dolce hotel’s four pools? Or Robert Zoellick of the World Bank? Paul Volcker of the US Economic Recovery Advisory Board? Or merely the euro taking another dive? That is the thing about the Bilderberg group’s top secret meetings: you never know quite…
How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit
by Danny Sullivan on June 1, 2010
in Newspapers
Greece’s government must cut spending and improve tax revenue in order to greatly reduce or eliminate its need to borrow, reduce the cost of its output (via domestic deflation or leaving the Euro and depreciating a new currency) in order to restore the external balance between its imports and exports, and to reduce the impediments to economic efficiency and productivity growth so that its economy can grow more rapidly. How did it get in such a mess? What role was and is played by its use of the Euro? And what are its options?
While the number of suicides is below China’s average rate of 14 per 100,000, according to the World Health Organization, it is enough to worry some of Foxconn’s customers. Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard and Sony have all ordered their own investigations.
Stone’s challenge this time around was to make his protagonist, Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), a hotshot, 20-something banker, sympathetic in an age when fresh-out-of-school Wall Street types are vilified as bottle-service-swilling douchebags. On the face of it, the casting of LaBeouf, whose grating, agitated swagger has never seemed more appropriate than in a trading room, runs counter to that goal. But his character is redeemed by the following “good-guy” factors:
ABU DHABI (AFP) – There’s no mistaking what’s in this vending machine. The well-heeled in the Gulf can now grab “gold to go” from a hotel lobby in the United Arab Emirates, when the need for a quick ingot strikes. On Thursday, a day after its inauguration, the shiny machine attracted spectators of many different…
Last week’s market swoon briefly shaved about $1 trillion dollars off of the value of U.S. equities. But it may have a much more lasting and beneficial effect on the NYSE Euronext — the exchange world’s resident tortoise. Until last Thursday, the NYSE’s gripes about the dangers of market fragmentation and opaqueness seemed like little…
Profitable Long Form Journalism May 9, 2010 – 7:26 pm | Edited by Frédéric Filloux Over the last month, I’ve been stuffing my iPad with books purchased online, long PDF files and other documents for later reading sessions. I’m waiting for the mind-blowing media applications, they’re still in the making. Several prototypes of French newspapers…
HOW TO SAVE YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPERS By paulgillin | April 28, 2010 – Meet Bobbie Carlton. She’s come up with an idea that every newspaper publisher in New England should have had but didn’t. Her success demonstrates how news publishers can reinvent themselves and survive – maybe even thrive – but only if they have…
government’s endless stock market manipulation gimmicks, deserves a broader audience.