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• Suing Gartner Doesn’t Work After All

  
  DevelopmentCorporate — Authority: 406
  Earlier this year, ZL Technologies sued Gartner for over $1.6 billion in damages over Gartner’s placement of ZL Technologies in the email archiving Magic Quadrant.  Recently, the Federal Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the case and handed Gartner a nice little victory.  The Court did not ...
  13 hours ago

• A Bit of Macro over the Weekend

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 425
  I ran across two items that might be of interest to you. The first is a paper from a pair of Harvard professors. (HT to Greg Mankiw .) Their research is noteworthy for its conclusion: "Fiscal stimuli based upon tax cuts are more likely to increase growth than those based upon spending increases." Their ...
  19 hours ago

• Top-down Versus Bottom-up

  
  MV=PQ: A Resource for Economic Educators — Authority: 425
  There was a very interesting post on Voxeu.org the other day. The upshot was that bottom-up economics is better than top-down. When I first read the title, I was expecting a discussion of trickle-down vs. trickle-up. But that was not the case. Based on some research from other sciences, the author makes a case ...
  2 days ago

• The Truth Behind China’s Currency Peg

  
  Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog — Authority: 121
  Peter Schiff does a good job of explaining The Truth Behind China’s Currency Peg The peg, they argue, offers China a competitive advantage by making its products cheaper in U.S. markets, thus allowing Chinese firms to gobble up market share and steal jobs from U.S. manufacturers . The thought is that were China ...
  2 days ago

• I, Pencil

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 132
  This is a fascinating piece about a common pencil, written in 1958 it looks at the miraculous synergy that occurs, to make the seemingly common pencil, I hope you are inspired by this, I was! It is a testament to the fact that markets do in fact, offer so much good to people all around the world, that humans dealing ...
  3 days ago

• Reset: An analysis of negative equity in Ireland and the UK

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 132
  I found a group called ‘Reset’ who are group hoping to lobby on behalf of people in negative equity and arrears in the UK and Ireland. They have a presentation which I have posted part of. Why Negative Equity Matters: Lower house prices, which may lead to negative equity, can reduce housing investment by ...
  3 days ago

• Do low-income mobile phone users want mobile money?

  
  CGAP Technology Blog — Authority: 121
  Since the official launch of GCASH in early 2004, Globe Telecom’s subsidiary GXI set-up a number of initiatives to help them arrive at a strategy for mobile banking in the Philippines. As part of those efforts, CGAP and GXI partnered to roll-out GCASH in three predominantly rural and low-income provinces of Bohol, ...
  4 days ago

• Knowledge + Attitude = Action?

  
  SocialButterfly — Authority: 113
  This was the equation at the center of one of Thursday’s New York Times Articles titled: How Understanding the Human Mind Might Save the World from CO2 . The article shared insights gained from the Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference this past week in Washington D.C., and wouldn’t you ...
  4 days ago

• If you Can’t Explain it, You Can’t Sell It

  
  Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog — Authority: 121
  Over the last few years Elizabeth Warren has become one of my favorite leaders. She is a leader in economic thought, ethical society and the law (she is a law professor at Harvard Law School). Far too many on Wall Street, Washington and in C-suites are leading us down a very bad path. She is a voice we need to ...
  4 days ago

• Turning One Red Paper Clip into A House

  
  Robert Kiyosaki Blog — Authority: 121
  Money is a HandicapMost people assume that one needs money in order to invest. Robert Kiyosaki and Wayne Palmer know that money can be a handicap because it limits your thinking.When money is involved, people focus on how much money something is worth. Without money in the equation, the entire focus moves to value. ...
  4 days ago

• Turning One Red Paper Clip into A House

  
  Cashflow Blog — Authority: 121
  Money is a HandicapMost people assume that one needs money in order to invest. Robert Kiyosaki and Wayne Palmer know that money can be a handicap because it limits your thinking.When money is involved, people focus on how much money something is worth. Without money in the equation, the entire focus moves to value. ...
  4 days ago

• Forge Consulting "Financial Literacy Lesson" on Negotiating Structured Settlement Payments

  
  Structured Settlements 4Real: What's Real in the Structured Settlements, Settlement Planning, Settlement Consulting and Litigation Recovery Management Space? — Authority: 431
  Todays lesson is courtesy of our "friends" at Forge Consulting to whom we sing... "Reading Writing and Arithmetic Are The Branches of The Learning Tree T-T-Teachers gonna show you how to get an A" *** The Forge Consulting Website said in May 2007 and still says in November 2009, in relation to how structured ...
  5 days ago

• Chase Employees Join HOPE to Teach the Basics of Banking

  
  Operation HOPE Blog — Authority: 110
  Banking on Our Future, Program Manager Patricia Robles headed up a spectacular event pairing Chase employees with Skinner Elementary to deliver a financial literacy session on Thursday, November 12.  Operation HOPE educated 245 students, grades 6th though 8th using Banking on Our Future’s core curriculum of ...
  6 days ago

• Welcome to beautiful Salvador, Brazil

  
  John Hope Bryant — Authority: 141
  Bamboo beautifully covers the entrance to the airport here in Salvador, Brazil, in Bahia State. 3 million people in Salvador and 14 million in the state, with a significant Latin-African influence everywhere. My driver tells me that public schools are not so good, but the public university is the best, while ...
  6 days ago

• Twitter Lists: introducing the FindependenceDay and The Wealthy Boomer lists

  
  The Wealthy Boomer — Authority: 581
  The Twitter micro-blogging service recently rolled out a newfeature called Lists, which makes it a lot more useful in organizing theveritable Niagara Falls of information that pours through the site every momentof the day. Twitter quietly introduced this feature some weeks ago among certain users but its fully ...
  6 days ago

• Twitter Lists: introducing the FindependenceDay and The Wealthy Boomer lists

  
  The Wealthy Boomer — Authority: 581
  The Twitter micro-blogging service recently rolled out a newfeature called Lists, which makes it a lot more useful in organizing theveritable Niagara Falls of information that pours through the site every momentof the day. Twitter quietly introduced this feature some weeks ago among certain users but its fully ...
  1 week ago

• Index Tracking methodologies

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 132
  when you hear about investments, bonds, and ‘tracking’ products that follow a certain index it is important to know exactly what is going on, today we will describe a technical difference between replication and sampled/optimised funds, and yes, we’ll keep it short so you don’t fall asleep! Replication: This ...
  1 week ago

• Product Management Financial Literacy

  
  DevelopmentCorporate — Authority: 406
  It continues to be a tough market to sell technology products and services.  Recent Q3 earnings announcements help to reinforce that the recession is still impacting the top lines of technology companies.  Consider the following: IBM total Q3 revenues declined 6.9% SAP’s new license revenue declined 31% and ...
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• Bill Gates and Warren Buffet: Were business schools to blame for the meltdown?

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 132
  This is (to my warped mind), one of the most beautiful things to witness, world class leaders in their respective fields talking to the young leaders of tomorrow on matters of life, ethics, success and what it takes. There is simply no alternative for being around great people, it should be part of any university ...
  1 week ago

• Free 2010 Jumpstart Calendar

  
  The Freebie Blogger — Authority: 620
  JumpStart Coalition for Financial Literacy is offering a free 2010 calendar courtesy of Capital One. Offer available to U.S. residents only. Related Posts: Free HWH 2010 Calendar Free 2010 Biosecurity for Birds Calendar
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