The Global Housing Boom | The worldwide rise in house prices is the biggest bubble in history. Prepare for the economic pain when it pops
June 12, 2005
Dollar's Climb Creates Opportunities | The strengthening dollar has weakened the returns of many international mutual funds. 'We're heading into a scenario that's just the opposite from what we've seen in the past several years,' said Martin Schulz, who oversees $430 million in international stock assets run by National City Investment Management for mutual funds and institutional accounts.
April 18, 2005
Playing Chicken With the Fed | Duru's latest market missive, focusing on the Fed's part in this year's market slide.
They Made America | Set your TiVos for this PBS documentary (the 'Rebels' episode features Russell Simmons & Ted Turner) -- This four-part series, based on the new book by Harold Evans (The American Century), examines the history of innovation in the United States and its impact around the world. By telling the stories of the inventive men and women who transformed the world, THEY MADE AMERICA explores the political, social, economic and environmental forces that made the United States an incubator for so much radical and far-reaching creativity. Evans provides on-camera commentary.
September 14, 2004
Out-eBaying eBay | Some interesting thoughts on decentralized e-commerce, with examples of companies that are thriving despite, or maybe even because of eBay
One in Six Silicon Valley Tech Jobs Ripe for Offshoring | I still can't get over the irony off how outsourcing has turned the tables on the white collar workers who used to tell the outsourced blue collar workers to just go get retrained.
August 14, 2003
Tech vs. Jobs | The good news: tech spending is coming back. The bad news(for the unemployed) : all that technology is allowing companies to get by with fewer employees and/or outsource positions overseas.
August 06, 2003
Job Cut Announcements Up 43% | This lagging indicator is in no hurry to turn around -- U.S. job-cut announcements jumped in July to their highest level in three months, an outplacement firm said Tuesday, another sign that the longest job-market slump since World War II continues.
June 24, 2003
Don't Bet the House | How to keep your home equity afloat if the housing market takes a dive
June 20, 2003
Hydrogen to the Rescue | A rising star at Accenture is advising Big Oil and the auto industry that they can revitalize the economy, mint profits, and save the planet -- if they'll just learn to stop worrying and love hydrogen.
