Stealthmode Partners has been working with the Kauffman Foundation since 2003, as a regional center for its Fasttrac Entrepreneurial Education program. On Friday, Jan. 29, the Foundation issued a large report ...READ»
I gave a talk on Marketing Technology in Troubled Times at the recent Software Business conference in San Francisco. Seems that the topic is popular as I have been invited to give the same presentation via webinars in December to the ...READ»
Working from home is impossible:Have you wondered why so many people treat coffee shops as workstations? I’ve finally figured it out. No, no, it’s got little to do with this recession even though this recession has ...READ»
"Dr. Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics and international business at the Stern School of Business at NYU and chairman of RGE Monitor, is perhaps best known for his prescient predictions of the financial market collapse in ...READ»
12 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com
The economic downturn has hit businesses both large and small, boosting the number of bankruptcies to levels not seen since 1939. Growing unemployment rolls, losses of ...READ»
The recovery in the US (and global) economy is hale and hearty. Amidst deep economic gloom, I had written in April 2009 that the US and world economies would show strong signs of recovery by July 2009 (see here and here). Ensnared in ...READ»
My latest project, now in the hands of the editors, is called 2011 Career Plan. The idea is that as America moves out of recession, 2011 is a good time for your next career move, so make a plan and get moving! Of course, this is ...READ»
Our sponsor is Seagate, first storage company to ship a billion hard drives. Here the CEO, Bill Watkins, sits down with us to discuss what’s happening in the storage business. Bill’s known for taking on tough issues and here we ...READ»
Let's not call our wobbly progress from the brink of a global financial meltdown a "recovery." Why? Because we are doomed by our collective mindset to plunge into more financial crises as soon as we recover, says author and CEO Dov Seidman. The problem is we continue to function according to a 20th-century operating system whose catastrophic bugs have been exposed as critical flaws.
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The massive oil spill off the Gulf Coast has left a bitter taste in our mouths, and for good reason--how could this happen at the same time that the environmental movement is finally rallying popular support? But all is not lost, ...READ»
Alan Insul, a Los Angeles lawyer
limiting his practice to business, corporate, and real estate cases,
offers some candid commentary about his law firms dealing with new
economic realities.
It’s tough out there, even for lawyers. ...READ»
By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN
AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our ...READ»
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»
Our ability to foresee the economy is plagued by an institutionalized muddleheadedness. When it comes to the economy, we have a serious foresight deficit. Consider this: Most business- and world- leaders and eminent economists ...READ»
There's a game called the Waiting Game that works like this: you sit on the sidelines, waiting for everyone else to go first. And then you skip a turn. Or a hundred turns. And before you know it, the game's over. Everyone else is ...READ»
Organizations today are in a tough spot, says Nick Holley, Director of the HR Centre of Excellence at Henley Business School in the UK. The solution lies not in the employee engagement survey but in the sincere actions of individual managers.READ»
Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspecultaion.comThere have been so many bail-out packages, stimulus proposals and other unprecedented plans designed to save the economy, it's become nearly impossible for the casual observer to keep track of ...READ»
In case you have not seen it, here's a great article that supports new business start ups in 2010 http://www.entrepreneur.com/trends/index.htmlIt's not the $700 billion bank bailout. And no, it's not the $787 billion American ...READ»
Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comOur current economic crisis is so deep and complex it's not likely to right itself anytime soon. How do we work ourselves out of this hole? Do we need more regulation or less? This is a ...READ»
For many, 2009 was a year that forced many companies to overcome significant obstacles in order to keep the doors open, the recession being the primary culprit. And while 2010 may not see as much economic bloodletting, no one that ...READ»
Wherever he is, Chicken Little is probably grinning. For many Americans these days, it feels like the sky is falling, and financially speaking, the evidence supports Mr. Little’s claim. The consensus around here is that we are ...READ»
The old saying goes “Better late than never.” So while the Innovating To Win poll on governmental economic intervention and innovation closed two months, the results of the poll are at the bottom of this posting.
The question ...READ»
Around this time last year, the deathwatch for sustainability was on full alert. Many wondered whether the "green bubble" would burst the same way the tech bubble and the housing bubble did. Would sustainability follow Lehman Brothers into the pages of history, a relic of the good times?READ»
29 January 2009
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
All eyes are on the current recession, but we tend to overlook the many U.S. recessions we've survived since the Great Depression. They’ve varied in length and ...READ»
