Hazard of the Trade: Bankers’ Health
By LESLIE KWOH Add investment banking to the list of things that could be dangerous to your health. A University of Southern California researcher found insomnia, alcoholism, heart palpitations, eating disorders and an explosive temper in some of the roughly two dozen entry-level investment bankers she shadowed fresh out of business school. Every individual she ...
America’s long and costly infrastructure projects
Feb 12th 2012, 21:19 by N.B. | WASHINGTON, D.C. economist.com America’s long and costly infrastructure projects SALON‘s Will Doig had a nice piece last week riffing off a common theme: why does it take so long and cost so much for America to complete infrastructure projects when China seems to complete them in mere months ...
8 Legal Steps for Starting Your Business
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. By Nellie Akalp 8 Legal Steps for Starting Your Business With each new year, budding entrepreneurs look to turn their vision into a business. These startups are often overflowing with tremendous ...
The Best Retirement Plan for Entrepreneurs
Retirement Plan used to be, you had to give up either savings or flexibility to create a tax-deferred nest egg. Not any more. By Charles Farrell | Jan 27, 2012 Building your retirement plan while you’re also trying to build your business can be tough. Many retirement plans don’t allow entrepreneurs to put much money ...
Creating a Company Vision
Do you have a vision of where your company will be in three years? In five? 10? Here’s a sure-fire way to get clear about the future you want. By Ari Weinzweig | Feb 1, 2011 Hardly a day passes without someone asking me for business advice. It might be a student or a struggling ...
Porsche Building – At planned Sunny Isles Beach condo, cars and drivers ride elevator home
The latest twist on designer parking garages: a Jetsonesque elevator that whisks residents to their condos while they are still in the driver’s seat. By Lidia Dinkova Pull over into the designated space. Turn off the engine. And enjoy the oceanfront view as you escalate in a glass elevator that takes you, while you are ...
How to develop a killer marketing plan
By Melinda Emerson on January 20, 2012 If it has been a long time since you looked at your business plan and now you’re ready to kick off your business for the new year, here’s a tip: Start with the marketing plan first. There are two reasons for this: 1) You must know who is ...
Portfolio Management Tips For Young Investors
I would like to thank Marc Davis for this post and information herein. Too many young people rarely, or never, invest for their retirement years. Some distant date, 40 or so years in the future, is hard to imagine. However, without investments to supplement retirement income, if any, retirees will have a difficult time paying ...
World Bank warns on risk of global recession
By Chris Isidore @CNNMoney January 18, 2012: 6:51 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The World Bank Wednesday slashed its 2012 growth forecasts for both emerging and developing economies from its estimates of only six months ago, and warned the world is on the cusp of a new global recession that could be as bad ...
A market in real estate fraud
Some say today’s real estate market conditions are ripe for a reprise of some of the worst behavior of the boom and bust. Could today’s seductive conditions in the housing market — severely marked-down prices, record low interest rates and hundreds of thousands of foreclosures waiting to be resold — be breeding new generations of ...
Market News
- GM won't advertise in the 2013 Super Bowl May 18, 2012General Motors will not advertise during this year's Super Bowl game, the automaker said Friday. […]
- Postal Service's next deadline: Aug. 1 May 18, 2012The next deadline facing Congress to save the U.S. Postal Service is Aug. 1. That's when the agency won't have enough money to make a $5.5 billion payment to a retirement fund mandated by law. […]
- New York penthouse sells for a record $90 million May 18, 2012An unnamed buyer paid more than $90 million for a Midtown Manhattan penthouse, the highest price ever paid for a New York apartment, according to the building's developer. […]
- Stocks: Worst week of the year May 18, 2012Stocks closed out an ugly week. Despite initial euphoria surrounding Facebook's public debut, the social network's shares barely popped above its offering price and failed to inspire investors to buy into the broader market. […]
- Anti-social: Zynga tumbles after Facebook IPO May 18, 2012Social media stocks just aren't feeling the love, despite Facebook's highly-anticipated stock market debut. […]
- Enough on Facebook! Buy Google or Apple May 18, 2012Facebook is finally trading. And even though the stock didn't explode out of the gate, the company is still worth more than $100 billion. It shouldn't be. […]
- Facebook trading sets record IPO volume May 18, 2012Facebook's stock market debut finally came and went -- but for all the breathless hype, shares ended right near their offering price. […]
- Facebook: Many mutual funds already have a stake May 18, 2012Whether you do or don't like Facebook, you may already own a piece of the social media site: over the past year, nearly 70 mutual funds have snapped up pre-IPO shares on private markets. […]
- Thrilled and bummed by Google's self-driving car May 18, 2012My first ride in Google's self-driving car was, all at the same time, thrilling, fascinating and a little disappointing. […]
- Europe fears pressure world markets May 18, 2012European and Asian markets closed lower on Friday amid anxiety about Spanish and Greek banks and worries of a further slowdown in China. […]
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