Houston-based Oxford “is a publicly traded Asset Resolution company specializing in the purchase and management of individual and bulk loan portfolios consisting primarily of Sub-Performing, and Non-Performing Residential and Commercial loans.” I went to its website after reading a post at Calculated Risk about Oxford buying a bunch …
This from WiP reader Anne Witkavich (check out her blog here):
You, Inc.: The Art of Selling Yourself
By Harry Beckwith and Christine Clifford Beckwith
Review by Anne Witkavitch
Walk into any bookstore or surf online and there is an overabundance of self-help and motivational books promising something new, something different for the …
In today’s FT, Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann gives the Fed and this entire nation of whiners we live in a scolding:
[M]acroeconomic policy should not be based on a panicky attempt to avoid a 2008 recession at all costs but on a forward-looking strategy that achieves the needed reduction in consumption at the lowest cost in terms of
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Reader Henri Tournyol du Clos calls to my attention a post I wrote back in September on an FT interview with Jean-Pierre Mustier, chief executive of corporate and investment banking at Societe Generale. The FT wrote:
Mr Mustier reckons that credit conditions will normalise at around the level they were late in 2004. This means that
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My sister Emy loves to tell this story.
In high school P.E., we had to run races of varying lengths as part of the Presidential Fitness tests. You might ask why an international school populated only minimally by Americans had to abide by the American president’s fitness standards. You might ask if we even knew who the American …
Just got this memo in my inbox from Time Inc.’s corporate leader, Ann Moore:
I want to share the details surrounding our newest sustainability initiative. ReMix (which stands for Recycling Magazines is Excellent) is a national public education campaign aimed at increasing residential recycling of magazines and catalogs. The campaign
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The latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price numbers came out yesterday. The headline was bad: The 10-city composite was down 8.4% in the 12 months ending in November, the worst performance in the history of the index, which goes back to January 1987.
But real estate is, as they say, local. So Feilding Cage …
I awoke this morning from a disturbing dream. In the dream, I was…typing. Actually, I was cutting and pasting within a document in an effort to format it correctly for a blog post.
I’m not kidding. I wish I was. Of all the places to let my unconscious roam in my too-few hours of sleep, it has to trot straight to the office.
Don’t lie …
Adrian Furnham is British psychologist who studies perceptions of human intellect. He found that while men and women score pretty much the same in IQ, men tend to think their scores are higher than they are and women think the opposite. He discusses his findings in a magazine we at TIME prefer to call Brand X.
Shakesville, via Alternet, …
True or false:
Californians are permitted to grow and possess marijuana if a doctor says they need it for medicinal purposes.
True! A 1996 “compassionate use” law makes pot legal for those whose health is aided by its use.
True or false:
Private employers in California can fire you for using …
Time.com has assembled a photo gallery of my Ten Things I Learned at Davos. As I worked on the list on the plane home Sunday, I realized that I really hadn’t learned much at all. I had to do a bit of padding, and recycling from this blog. And now I’m wondering why the heck my employer sent me all the way to Switzerland to learn so …
About an hour ago, 100-plus TIME staffers gathered in a large auditorium here at Time Inc. for what were billed as the Kudos Awards.
The whatos? is what I thought when I got the e-mailed invite. The invite looked important: it came from Ed McCarrick, the business chief of TIME, and the reminder note came from Rick Stengel, our managing …
