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Hollywood CEOs: Steven SpielbergWed Oct 28th, 2009
Scott Reeves
Photo by Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images
In 1994, Spielberg launched DreamWorks SKG with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. It produced or distributed about 10 movies w |
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Wal-Mart: The Leaders We DeserveFri Oct 9th, 2009
Jeff Macke Editors Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past co |
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Why Would Anyone Want to Hold Dollars?Tue Oct 6th, 2009
Mike Mish Shedlock Surprise, surprise, surprise -- not: The oil-hype story as discussed in Ten Reasons to Ignore the Hype Over Secret Oil Meetings has blown sky high already, just hours after I wrote it.Russia Denies T |
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Who Needs Newspapers Anyway?Mon Oct 5th, 2009
Scott Reeves Saving the dinosaur press is apparently a bipartisan effort -- and blather from both sides of the aisle doesn’t give a bad idea a patina of credibility. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, a Republ |
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True Luxury: Beginning at the EndThu Oct 1st, 2009
Amy McVay Tombstones were a lot more fun prior to the nineteenth century. Many of them contained epitaphs in addition to dates and names. For example:Here lies my poor wife, much lamented,She is happy and I am |
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Apocalypse Now: A Checklist for the FearfulWed Sep 16th, 2009
Ryan Goldberg It’s never been hard to find a small group of Cassandras, so-called “doomers” who see the apocalypse foreshadowed in Mayan calendars, Nostradamus writings, and the Terminator movies |
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Apocalypse Now: Where to EscapeWed Sep 16th, 2009
Ryan Goldberg Peripatetic author and professional international investor Doug Casey has, by his count, traveled to 175 countries and lived in 12. One of the last places he thinks is fitting to live now is the Unit |
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Investors Respond to Backdating 2.0 with Resounding "Who Cares?"Tue Aug 18th, 2009
Megan Barnett Watch out, corporate beancounters. Backdating is back.Or at least the Wall Street Journal thinks it is. The paper, which exposed the pervasive, illegal practice of rewarding executives with stock opt |
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Why Investors Can't Afford to Miss Flight to ChinaWed Jul 22nd, 2009
Keith Fitz-Gerald Individual investors who still hold any doubts about mainland China’s future growth potential should take a long hard look at Airbus SAS, the Pan-European commercial-airliner maker that's now b |
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Threatening to Kill Telemarketers Apparently IllegalWed Jul 22nd, 2009
Scott Reeves An Ohio man who received one unsolicited phone call too many did the only logical thing: He allegedly threatened to burn down the telemarketer’s building and slaughter all the employees. T |






