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Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is one of the few Davos Women (Christian Hartmann/REUTERS)
I was LOLing at my friend Anya Schiffrin’s very clever piece in the Guardian this week on the new quota for women at Davos. I also love her Davos Wife blog for Reuters: (the list of essentials is truly mandatory reading …
A combo of pictures shows Egyptian demonstrators tearing a huge portrait of President Hosni Mubarak during a protest (Getty Images)
A guest post from business author Don Tapscott:
Davos: Having just done a CNBC interview I was reminded of the interplay between the global media and the discussions among leaders at Davos. News …
“We have these tapes in our heads about how the wedding itself should be conducted, and what you should ask for. It’s very common for people to think, when I’m married I will be like my mother or grandmother or like the fantasies I had when I was 10.”
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Should we worry about the numbers out today showing that jobless claims have surged to 454,000 thousand, up from 403,000 the week previously? That’s a large jump, one of the biggest in recent memory. At the same time, there’s some new data showing that orders of big new equipment and machinery are down, which …
The smartest shoppers are aware of the games being played at the supermarket. Higher-priced items tend to be stocked in aisles right at eye level, so that consumers must crane their necks or bend down to find deals. The milk and eggs are way at the back of the store, forcing consumers to walk past all sorts of enticing other goodies on …
Now that we have the recovery, we will have to pay for it. The question is did we take the appropriate measures or did we overspend.
On Thursday, the CBO estimated that the federal deficit in 2011 will reach nearly $1.5 …
Over the years I’ve been attending Davos not as a Global 500 CEO, government or NGO leader but as a worker. Basically I’m one of hundreds of academics and authors who are invited to hold sessions, participate in panels and …
Book flights by Thursday, January 27, on Southwest Airlines to take advantage of discounted one-way fares such as $29 (example: Los Angeles-Las Vegas), $41 (Boston-Baltimore), $86 (Nashville-Panama City Beach), and $99 (St. Louis-Philadelphia). A 14-day advance purchase is required, and travel is valid through May 21. Flights on Fridays …
Next up in our personal finance guru Q&A series is Farnoosh Torabi, who doles out financial advice regularly on all the major morning talk shows, writes MoneyWatch’s Your So Money blog, and has a new book out called Psych Yourself Rich: Get the Mindset and Discipline You Need to Build Your Financial Life.
Let’s take a look at a country with mounting national debt, big fiscal deficits, low growth, and no solid plan for dealing with those problems due to incessant political bickering. In this case I’m talking about Japan, but many of you could have rightly assumed I was talking about the U.S. That’s why what happened today to Japan …
Living out here in Asia, it’s only too easy to see how quickly the East is catching up to, and in some cases, even surpassing the United States. The airport in Beijing is more efficient than JFK. I get dropped from mobile phone calls more readily in New Jersey than in Jakarta. Students in Seoul walk home with backpacks of books at …
When Verizon announced it would be selling the iPhone, a certain breed of consumers were overjoyed with the prospect that they’d soon be able buy an iPhone without an AT&T contract, and without the restrictions of an AT&T limited-data plan. Verizon iPhone customers should be able to pay a flat $30 all-you-can-eat fee for data. But, in …
