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Exxon: Oiling the Engine of Our EconomyWed Nov 18th, 2009
Scott Reeves Editor's 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 c |
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Exxon: Slick, Slimy, and DangerousWed Nov 18th, 2009
Ryan Goldberg 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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Let's Talk About Sex and MoneyMon Nov 9th, 2009
Karen Salmansohn All throughout my life, I’ve noticed a big difference between men and women when it comes to the conversational topic of money.I’ve found that men have no trouble talking about money. Men |
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Will Activision Be Able to Sink 'Titanic' Sales?Fri Nov 6th, 2009
Michael Comeau The video-game industry has been living on a prayer all year, but Activision (ATVI) managed to squeak past expectations with a solid third-quarter earnings report. Fourth-quarter earnings guidance wa |
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Las Vegas Sands Is Not an Oasis YetFri Oct 30th, 2009
Glenn Curtis The weekend is upon us! Asian stocks rebounded overnight. The Hang Seng and the Nikkei were up 2.4% and 1.45%, respectively. European stocks were mixed early this morning. And here in the US, we&rsqu |
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Hollywood CEOs: George ForemanWed Oct 28th, 2009
Jarrod Dicker George Foreman once said: “When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor that we couldn’t afford the last two letters…so we called ourselves po’.”But he sure aint po&rsq |
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Hollywood CEOs: Jay-ZWed Oct 28th, 2009
Justin Rohrlich “I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.” -- Jay-ZFrom the Marcy Houses in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, to a hip-hop superstar with nearly 40 million albums sold, to a corner offic |
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Futures Contracts: Avoid Delivery of One Million EggsMon Sep 21st, 2009
Justin Rohrlich If I buy a single futures contract for ethanol on the Chicago Board of Trade, am I literally buying 29,000 gallons of the stuff?What about picking up a contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for |
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The Bad Boys of Business: CitigroupThu Sep 3rd, 2009
Scott Reeves
A day after the story broke, Citigroup canceled the order.“Citi continually explores ways to reduce all its assets, including aircraft," Michael J. Hanretta, a company spokesman, said |
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The Bad Boys of Business: BlackwaterThu Sep 3rd, 2009
Justin Rohrlich
Gibney says:“There is a different, more robust approach to making peace in nasty places: deploy private military companies. Put them on retainer, and they’ll go where they’re p |






