Archive for May, 2009:

What’s The “New Normal” For Car Sales?*

{ Posted on May 31 2009 by Henry Blodget }
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Categories : All, Clusterstock
In the middle of this decade, Americans bought 17 million cars per year (.8 per driver per decade).  Now they're buying 9 million (.4 per driver per decade).  Detroit is terrified that Americans have discovered that they can get by ...Read More »

What to do now with $50,000 cash??

{ Posted on May 31 2009 by Rdan }
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Seven Hidden Lessons from “Getting Things Done”

{ Posted on May 30 2009 by Trent }
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Categories : All, Learning, The Simple Dollar
A few years ago, I first read David Allen’s seminal book on time management, Getting Things Done (here’s the skinny on what it’s all about). To put it bluntly, it was an epiphany for me. Let me make ...Read More »

Guest Blog: Japan’s first trade deficit in 28 years

{ Posted on May 30 2009 by Menzie Chinn }
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By Eiji Fujii Today, we're fortunate to have Eiji Fujii, Professor of Economics at Tsukuba University as a guest blogger. Shaken by the world financial crisis, Japan has recorded the first trade deficit (on the April-March fiscal year basis) in 28 ...Read More »

The Simple Dollar Time Machine – May 30, 2009

{ Posted on May 30 2009 by Trent }
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Many newer readers of The Simple Dollar haven’t been exposed to the hundreds of great articles in the archives of the site, so this is a weekly series that highlights the five best posts from one year ago this week, ...Read More »

It’s Official: It’s Barack Obama’s Economy Now

{ Posted on May 30 2009 by Joe Weisenthal }
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With the stock market now up solidly since Obama's inauguration, consumer confidence nearing pre-crisis levels, and the banking crisis now in the rear-view mirror, the economy is Obama's to own. If we'd just kept going down and down, then it'd still ...Read More »

Jack Welch: How To Kick Ass In These Tough Times

{ Posted on May 30 2009 by Henry Blodget }
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From last week's Bloomberg-Vanity Fair panel, here's Jack Welch on what companies should do in these "uncertain" times: AL HUNT: Okay. The next question... is from India, and it’s directed to Jack... And it says, “How does your perspective differ as ...Read More »

David Rosenberg’s Got Big “Crystal Balls”

{ Posted on May 30 2009 by Joe Weisenthal }
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A reader passes along a full-page newspaper ad taken out by Gluskin Sheff, the Canadian wealth management firm where David Rosenberg has gone to work. The firm calls him "The man with the crystal balls." Now, that could be a Canada ...Read More »

Harvard Business Students Take Dumb “Ethics” Pledge

{ Posted on May 30 2009 by Joe Weisenthal }
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Maybe we're a little cynical, but there's something awfully silly and infantilizing about having business school students take an "I will be ethical pledge" upon graduation. Then again, considering some of the rotten apples that have come out of the ...Read More »

“You Have To Eat While You Dream!”

{ Posted on May 30 2009 by Henry Blodget }
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At the Bloomberg-Vanity Fair panel the other night, Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Jack Welch whether it was, in fact, true that Welch's relentless focus on short-term earnings targets destroyed corporate America. SORKIN: This question is for Jack. Someone said to me ...Read More »
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