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New Yorker (no fee): Rational Irrationality – The real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone. by John Cassidy “Most of the time, financial markets are pretty calm, trading is orderly, and participants can buy and sell in large quantities. Whenever a crisis hits, however, the biggest playersbanks, investment banks, hedge fundsrush to reduce their exposure, …
World’s Best Companies 2009: “Companies are little different. So as the economic outlook brightens, those that have worked hard to survive the tough times of the past year are best prepared to seize new opportunities. It is these enterprises that have risen to the top of the World’s Best Companies/Global Top 40 list, compiled for …
Corporate Governance Report 2009: Boards in turbulent times “The global financial crisis has heralded a new international order that has yet to be understood fully or accepted widely. The economic changes happening now are structural, not cyclical, and therefore truly transformative. These changes will affect every company in every sector across the world. There has …
News release: “The National Archives and Records Administration and Footnote.com announced the release of the internets largest Interactive Holocaust Collection. For the first time ever, over one million Holocaust-related records including millions of names and 26,000 photos from the National Archives will be available online. The collection can be viewed at: http://www.footnote.com/holocaust…The collection …
Pew Financial Reform Project Briefing Paper# 7 – Quantifying the cost on lending of increased capital requirements, Douglas J. Elliott. “The analysis presented here strongly suggests that the U.S. banking industry could adjust to higher capital requirements on loans through a combination of actions that would not wreak havoc on the system. Not surprisingly, the …
Deloitte: Cloud computing – A collection of working papers, released September 17, 2009 and published on July 31, 2009. “Cloud Computing frequently is taken to be a term that simply renames common technologies and techniques that we have come to know in IT. It may be interpreted to mean data center hosting and then subsequently …
News release: “In a trend that is likely to continue, nearly half of U.S. companies are automatically enrolling workers into 401(k) plans to encourage them to save for retirement, according to a survey by Watson Wyatt, a leading global consulting firm. The survey also found that the number of companies that use target-date or lifecycle …
“Over the next 15 years, battery electric vehicles will barely reach a market share of three percent in the worldwide automotive sector. Substantial extra costs, which presently reach as much as Euro 20,000 for a car in the same category as the Volkswagen Golf, and limited driving ranges stand in the way of broad distribution …
Peek: Mobile E-Mail On A Budget – Conrad J. Jacoby discusses his experiences using the Peek mobile e-mail device (Time Magazine’s 2008 Gadget of the Year), which he believes is genuinely useful and an excellent value for its cost.
ILTA 2009: Smaller, Cheaper… Better? – Attorney and legal IT expert Conrad J. Jacoby believes participants in this year’s conference were hungry for the knowledge available there, for the ability to see in-depth presentations of products, and to attend personal briefings with high-level vendor-side programmers and product directors.
“Federal Computer Week has compiled lists of the top 10 federal agencies using Facebook and Twitter.”
