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  • Auto sales plunge again in December

    Ford Motor and Toyota Motor both reported December sales declines of more than 30% Monday, capping the industry's worst year since 1992.
  • Stocks finish lower

    Stocks fell Monday, retreating after last week's big rally, as investors digested President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus plan, monthly auto sales and surging oil prices.
  • Gold sinks to 2-week low

    The price of gold fell to a two-week low Monday as the U.S. dollar rallied on new details about President-elect Barack Obama's fiscal stimulus plan.
  • Obama: $300 billion in tax cuts

    President-elect Barack Obama launched his campaign Monday for a massive package of tax cuts and spending proposals aimed at reviving an economy mired in recession.
  • Consumer bankruptcies jump in 2008

    Bankruptcy filings by American consumers increased nearly a third in 2008, according to a new report.
  • Face value: The other transition

    Leo Apotheker, SAP’s new boss, is an unusual choice, installed in an unusual wayCHANGES in leadership at big companies can be like those in Washington, DC. They bring in fresh perspectives and n...
  • Management: Generation Y goes to work

    Reality bites for young workersJESSICA BUCHSBAUM first noticed that something had changed in May 2008. The head of recruitment for a law firm in Florida, Ms Buchsbaum was used to interviewing young ca...
  • Performance management: The Rypple effect

    A novel way to satisfy feedback junkiesONE defining characteristic of the Net Generation is that it thrives on feedback. Just as they are used to checking their progress on leader boards when playing...
  • European bankruptcy laws: Out of pocket

    Europe’s flawed insolvency regimes will face a severe test in 2009THE word “bankrupt” originally came from Italy, deriving from banca rotta, or broken bench. When a medieval moneylen...
  • America's car industry: No end to the nightmare

    Detroit has been given a brief reprieve, but the threat of bankruptcy still loomsTHE sense of relief in Detroit that greeted the $17.4 billion federal lifeline thrown by President Bush to General Moto...
  • Who Saw The Housing Bubble Coming?

    The current economic crisis is raising many legitimate questions about the failure of economists and financial analysts to foresee the housing bubble and warn of its collapse.
  • Trading Strategies - MarketWatch

    After a tumultuous and sometimes painful year, most of us are glad to see the close of 2008. Our experts offer 13 ways to put last year in the past and gear up for a profitable 2009.
  • Gold Down as Dollar Rises, Precious Metals Split

    Precious metals split ways on Monday as the U.S. dollar rebounded and oil prices rose. New York gold and silver futures declined 2.5 percent and 1.7 percent, respectively, while platinum headed north...
  • Bleak Sales in December Cap a Grim Year for Automakers

    Vehicle sales in the United States tumbled more than 35 percent in December, dragging the Detroit automakers' full-year totals down to their lowest levels in nearly half a century.
  • Steve Jobs Admits to Skipping Macworld 2009 Due to Illness

    Another Steve Jobs health rumor? No, not a rumor this time. Information from an open letter from Steve Jobs, filed via press release, confirms that he is skipping Macworld due to illness. Yet, at the...
  • Prosecutor wants Madoff jailed immediately

    A prosecutor says disgraced financier Bernard Madoff violated bail conditions by mailing about $1 million worth of jewelry and other assets to relatives, and wants him jailed.
  • Stocks end trading day with modest losses

    Caution returned to Wall Street Monday as investors gave back some gains from last week's rally even as they found some encouragement from a report on construction spending.
  • Apple's Steve Jobs will stay as CEO

    Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs, looking to quell rumors about his health, said Monday his doctors have discovered a hormonal imbalance that has been causing his weight loss.
  • Major automakers report U.S. sales plunge

    Huge rebates and zero-percent loans couldn’t overcome economic uncertainty as U.S. auto sales plunged 36 percent in December, capping a dismal year.
  • Answer Desk: Uncle Sam's borrowing binge

    As the government works out the details of a massive economic stimulus plan, some readers are asking: where is all this money going to come from?  The Answer Desk.
  • Car sales plunge heralding bleak 2009

    DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. auto sales plunged by 36 percent in December led by outsized declines at Chrysler LLC, Hyundai Motor and Toyota Motor Corp as the battered industry closed out its weakest year...
  • Asia stocks up on hopes of recovery

    HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian stocks edged up for a seventh day on Tuesday, boosted by hopes for a global economic recovery later in 2009, though the rising yen and falling high-yielding currencies sugg...
  • Prosecutors seek to jail Madoff

    NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors asked a judge to jail accused swindler Bernard Madoff on Monday, saying he sent jewelry and other items worth more than $1 million to family and friend...
  • GE's finance arm launches $10 billion FDIC-backed debt

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Electric Co's finance arm on Monday launched a $10 billion sale of FDIC-backed debt, the largest sale under the government guarantee program since its inception last Nove...
  • Fed buys MBS in latest unconventional move

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Monday kick-started its latest unconventional program to boost the moribund economy, this time taking aim at the heart of the slumping housing market.
  • Where is the geographic center of Johnny Cash's moral and musical universe?

    I was listening to the new and excellent Vince Mira CD of Johnny Cash covers (some of them in an elegant Spanish), when Yana asked me to explain Johnny Cash to her. "Does he sing about the South?
  • How did the tax cut get so big?

    Yes, 40 percent of the Obama stimulus package will be a tax cut. It's already a talking point that "the Democrats have lost their nerve" but the reality is not so devious. Obama wishes to de...
  • Do we compete more against fewer competitors?

    This caught my eye:If you've ever had to take a test in a room with a lot of people, you may be able to relate to this study: The more people you're competing against, it turns out, the less motivated...
  • Assorted links

    1. The work habits of famous people. 2. MasterResource; a free market energy blog. 3. Arnold Kling is very wise; today on fiscal policy. 4. Saying words wrong on purpose.
  • Why being President-elect is a difficult job

    But evidence is mounting that Obama is already losing ground among key Arab and Muslim audiences that cannot understand why, given his promise of change, he has not spoken out. Arab commentators and e...
  • Write-Offs: 01.05.09

    $$$ The Mustique Connection And The "Lucky" Number 12 [Guest of a Guest] $$$ "Too many reporters are so inauthentic"-- Liz Claman [Poynter] $$$ "NEW YORK - (Business Wire) It's the Economy, NY! What...
  • Imminent Death Of Capitalism Predicted

    We are, I suppose, to believe in Taleb's genius: Universa Investments, a firm run by two of Mr Taleb's protégés who receive advice from their mentor, had as of mid-October posted yearly returns of...
  • Bernie Madoff Treated With The Respect He Deserves

    Collective sigh of relief, my darlings-- Bernie Madoff, at least for now, will remain in the comfort of his own home. Earlier today prosecutors were trying to change the terms of his bail and lock up...
  • Madoff Family's Last Remaining Asset?

    In our ongoing saga to determine whether or not the Madoff sons, Mark and Andy, really had no idea their family business was a scam, we've said several times that one the one hand, how could they not,...
  • Boom Goes The Dynamite

    BlueGold Global:...

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