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Visualization: What's a Billion, Here and There?

With all this talk of billion-dollar bailout programs, one information designer creates a chart that puts it all in context.READ»

Goldman's Trading Formulae Leaked by Quant Spy

Star bank holding firm Goldman Sachs has been getting its fair share of antipathy this month. First it was Rolling Stone's polemic against the bank; then it was BusinessWeek's sobering review of how the 140-year-old firm will be ...READ»

Can ZipCar Remake Government Fleets?

For the last 10 years, ZipCar has succeeded in getting urban drivers to share cars. Now it's trying to get government in on the game. The car-sharing company announced plans on Monday to venture into the public sector with a ...READ»

Clash of the Classes

Acerbic public discourse is nothing new...READ»

iFive: GM and Chrysler to Get Bailed Out Again, Peter Chernin Meets Peter Griffin, and Amazon-Digg? in Today's Innovation News

While you were sleeping, innovation plotted its comeback. Here's today's innovation news: President Obama's auto task force appears ready to keep GM and Chrysler afloat with more bailout loans, pending concessions from ...READ»

On Not Getting It

I was with a client last week, the CEO of a public company. I have known and worked with this person for about 10 years. Although the company is on solid financial footing, the current business climate has forced him to make some ...READ»

The Death of 'Cruel Arrogance'?

Arrogance will never die of course, but hopefully the last few months have set it back a pinch. The Wall Street Journal had a remarkable piece this past weekend on the banking boom and bust of Iceland. An entire economy - currency ...READ»

Bailouts and Stimulus Packages: Missing the Mark

22 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com What exactly was all this U.S. Federal bailout money—the Temporary Asset Relief Program (TARP)—supposed to relieve?   Let’s review the highlights First of all, ...READ»

How Honda Used An Unlikely Partner to Conquer India

"It is more advantageous to conquer nearby enemies, because of geographical reasons, than those far away. So ally yourself temporarily with your distant enemies in spite of political differences.” —From The Thirty-Six ...READ»

Easter Island Comes to Detroit

When I saw the photo on the cover of the NY Times this week of the congregation at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, rallying around three huge white SUVs (yes, there were gas guzzlers on the altar), I first thought of the scene in ...READ»

Inside The Chevy Volt [pics]

GM is gambling on the plug-in electric Chevy Volt to boost sales -- and recharge its fortunes.READ»

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Dodge's New Ram Is a WiFi Hotspot, Too?

As Detroit feels the noose around its neck, everyone says it's getting what it deserves for years of crappy cars. And it is. But you wouldn't know it by looking at the new Dodge Ram, which is replete with more tech toys than most ...READ»

Bankrupt Carmaker No, Bankrupt Airline Yes?

With the Detroit bailout now a wreck, the refrain from the impacted carmakers is that a the money is still necessary, because "consumers won't buy cars from companies in bankruptcy."But they readily flew bankrupt airlines.  For ...READ»

The Case of the Puzzled Baboons

America has collectively awakened to a crisis. Fear and a bunker mentality have choked consumer spending. It seems bad news makes people act even more conservatively, which makes things worse, which makes for more bad news. Most of ...READ»

Where is the Auto Industry’s Moore’s Law?

In the April 19, 1965 issue of Electronics Magazine, Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel made an observation about the development of integrated circuits, which are at the heart of the modern computer's ever improving ...READ»

MBE-Barter: Serious CPR For An Economic Meltdown

Leveraging the power of MBE BarterREAD»

Diversity in companies

I have been checking on claims of companies for diversity. It seems that the diversity claims doesn't hold moch ground if we look at diversity in mnagement positions.READ»

Bailout or reward to network

There is money involved and the priority of nation seems to be capital. The President elect announces economy or bail out team first. If that is the CHANGE then I would like to announce a welcome change to disaster. A look at some of ...READ»

A Wall to Push Off...

To intervene or not to intervene. That is the raging debate on our satellites. That is the raging debate around our water coolers. ‘Let them fail!’ or “They are too big to fail.’ But it is far deeper and more subtle than ...READ»

Bailout, Bailout, Who Gets the Bailout?

It might be time for government to stop proposing bailout packages for multinational banks, and throw the cash at the retail sector instead. With a little capital, maybe our nation’s stores could finance new and exciting ways to get people back in the holiday shopping groove.READ»

Capitalism....dot gov?

There is a new drugstore test called the E.G.T. (Early Government Test). You pee on a stick. If the lines appear, you are no longer living in a free market. Of course, it may be a temporary condition. A few months of ...READ»

Should GM Start Making Floor Polish?

A quick check of the headlines and blogosphere reveals some very innovative approaches to 'rescuing' GM and its brethren in Detroit. Most all of them forsake a cash bailout (or otherwise pecuniary reward) for various plans to remake ...READ»

The Yearning for a Malefactor (and other failures)

The churning of the press in the last few weeks has at least been good for something. If there were any doubt before, none now should remain. Our national conversation about our economic woes is shockingly devoid of an original voice. ...READ»

Another Stimulus Package? Give Me a Break

Democrats, now backed by Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, are calling for a second stimulus package which could cost as much as $300 billion. To clarify, that’s $300 billion on top of the $168 billion stimulus passed last ...READ»

The Treasury, Mosquitoes, and Unintended Consequences

The moves of our Federal Reserve and Treasury in the last few weeks are gigantic in scope. Decades from now students will study 2008 when the financial markets changed, when the relationship between the government and the private ...READ»