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Daily Archives: June 22, 2009

welch

The Jack Welch College Opens For Business

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 4:45 am

Jack Welch, former head of GE (GE), is too old to be a CEO and is overexposed as an "on air" pundit who spends his time giving opinions on CNBC. ...
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house

Can Boomer’s Children Save Housing?

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 4:26 am

It is a nifty, logical, and overly optimistic theory. Housing demand will rise as the children of the baby boomers hit their late twenties and thirties and need homes where they can raise ...
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bucks

The Death Of Brands: Passing Up Advil For Aspirin

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 4:04 am

Who needs Advil when it is more expensive than aspirin and probably does no better at reducing pain? Who needs Starbucks (SBUX) when Maxwell House has just as much caffeine? ...
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house

Housing Market Disaster Worsens

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 3:43 am

The brief moment of hope that housing had hit a bottom and that both the rate of home sales and prices would improve is slipping away. The pressures that will ...
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Treasury

The Government Versus Goldman Sachs (GS)

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 3:37 am

Goldman Sachs (GS) has now paid back the TARP funds which removes the firm from what it must consider the government's most draconian pay restrictions, those applied to companies living on taxpayer ...
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Media Digest 6/22/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg.

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 2:55 am

Reuters:   Airlines are cutting back on first class seating. Reuters:   Xstrata wants merger talks with mining rival Anglo American. Reuters:   Employers are cutting 401 (K) plans. Reuters:   Brand loyalty is being ...
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china

Asia Markets And Europe Open 6/22/2009

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 2:25 am

Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose .4% to 9,826. The Hang Seng was up 1.6% to 18,213. The Shanghai Composite rose .6% to 2,896. At the open in ...
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