What Penguins Know About Business: The Value of Sharing in Markets From Paul J. Zak at Claremont Graduate University: “There’s nothing new about being shameless, or ruthless and cynical, when it comes to making a buck. Plenty of people in business seem to think that fakery and exploitation is the name of the game. Which …
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Has the U.S. Reached The Debt Saturation Point? The linked article below is a couple of years old, but contains an interesting chart about our return on debt. It shows that when the change in U.S. GDP is divided by the change in U. S. debt, we actually reached the point of debt saturation in …
What’s Causing Market Volatility and What Can We Do? I read an interesting short article this morning on Seeking Alpha in which Todd Campbell discussed the rising stock market volatility that has been happening since the 1970s. The article entitled “Volatility Across the Decades: It’s No Wonder We’re Edgy” (click here to view) included the …
Forget Peak Oil, Time To Worry About Peak Oil Labor (via Market Shadows) Courtesy of www.econmatters.com. By EconMatters In a recent working paper, researchers at the the IMF (International Monetary Fund) attempt to reconcile the Peak Oil debate that whether resource constraints will dictate the future of oil output and prices, or advance in technology …
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By LESLIE KWOH Got innovation? Just about every company says it does. Photo: Getty Images. Companies throw the term “innovation” around but that doesn’t mean they are actually changing anything monumental. Leslie Kwoh reports on digits. Businesses throw around the term to show they’re on the cutting edge of everything from technology and medicine to …
Faculty are great at educating students–just keep them out of meetings. I still view higher education with a bit of an outsider’s lens as I spent the first 20+ years of my career in the “real world” of business. I’ve found higher ed. requires a sense of humor. Moving from a corporation to a university …
The Economics of Fame I have a good friend who loves to tell me I’m going to be famous someday. He seems to think the tipping point is just around the corner. I simply smile and say, “You’re too kind” because I know better. While fame is not something I’ve studied formally, I do have …
Dating? While this is not something I would normally post, this was just too outrageous to pass up. Please gentlemen, don’t do this. The future of the species is at stake. From Amy Tennery in Time: It’s tough to tell when an internet phenomenon reaches actual meme status. But, in the case of the “creepy …
I’m convinced the primary goal universities have for Doctoral students is to make them even more socially awkward than they were when they showed up. I realized this at a party the other day when I noticed I wasn’t talking to people as much as I was observing them. I used to be interesting, now …
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Myanmar could boom if it sticks to reforms: IMF (via AFP) The International Monetary Fund said Monday that Myanmar could be Asia’s next boom economy if the country sticks to its new path of political and economic reforms. In its first-ever “Article IV” review of the economy, the IMF praised the initial moves to free …
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