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Hollywood CEOs: Steven Spielberg

Wed 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

Wal-Mart: The Leaders We Deserve

Fri 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

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

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

True Luxury: Beginning at the End

Thu 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

Apocalypse Now: A Checklist for the Fearful

Wed 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

Apocalypse Now: Where to Escape

Wed 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

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

Why Investors Can't Afford to Miss Flight to China

Wed 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

Threatening to Kill Telemarketers Apparently Illegal

Wed 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
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