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Are Bankers Competent to be Running Banks?
15 january 2013 Not especially, according to an IBM report which surveyed more than 2,000 financial executives. How good are banks on core technology skills? Not very, they admit. Although…
Is Brazilian Soccer Star Neymar Spending His Way To Bankruptcy?
15 january 2013 There’s no question about how talented is Brazilian soccer star Neymar. A sports prodigy in his own right, Neymar is not only the most celebrated athlete in…
Note To Republicans: The U.S. Can’t Run A Gold Standard On Its Own
15 january 2013 The Republican proposal for a commission to consider “restoring a link between the U.S. dollar and gold” has generated a lot of excitement among the internet’s many…
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15 january 2013 “Women are poised to shape not only their own destiny but the destiny of this century,” President Barak Obama proclaimed in his commencement address at Barnard College…
Airbus Explores Building Planes With Giant 3D Printers – Updated With Video
15 january 2013 [Updated with video, below] We already know that 3D-printing has revolutionized the way we can make everyday objects from Lego pieces, to guitars, and from car bodies to artificial livers. But the…
Why Is The EU’s Spanish Bailout Beginning to Unravel?
15 january 2013 Steve Schaefer reports here on Forbes that stocks have given up their early gains following an apparent EU bailout of Spain, this past weekend. Here are a…
Why the Barclays Scandal Matters for Marketers
15 january 2013 At its heart, commerce is fundamentally about trust, and any agreement in the business world is an expression of trust. Employment agreements are an expression of mutual…
‘World’s Worst Banker’ Loses British Royal Honor–Like Mussolini
15 january 2013 He didn’t go to jail. But Fred Goodwin, whose reign running the Royal Bank of Scotland resulted in the world’s biggest-ever bank bailout in 2008, received the…
EU Bans Bottled Water Claim That Water Prevents Dehydration: Ludicrous or Just?
15 january 2013 Europe may be on the brink of collapse, but this hasn’t stopped decision-makers in Brussels from much investing time and resources in issues which may well seem…
On MF Global Anniversary Something Still Missing
15 january 2013 Something is still missing today, the one year anniversary of the bankruptcy of MF Global. Of course, we’re not yet being told who has $1.6 billion of…
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