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Posts Tagged ‘Economy’
BREAKING NEWS: Agriculture reforms in North Korea!
Exclusive: North Korea plans agriculture reforms BEIJING – North Korea plans to allow farmers to keep more of their produce in an attempt to boost agricultural output, a source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing said, in a move that could boost supplies, help cap rising food prices and e[...]
Will NIH Go Chapter 11? Higher Education and the NIH Face a Fiscal Cliff
Report on Looming Federal Budget Cuts ‘Confirms the Worst’ for Higher Education By Lee Gardner Washington The dire consequences of looming automatic cuts in the federal budget came into sharper focus on Friday with the release of a 394-page report by the White House Office of Mana[...]
July 23rd, 2012 - 11:32 pm § in America
BREAKING NEWS: $1,000,000 Parking Spot
Real estate MUST be coming back: New York parking spot on sale for $1m Submitted by Jamie Williamsonon Mon, 05/21/2012 – 10:31 Washington, May 21 : A parking space for one million-dollar has gone on the market in New York City. The 12-feet wide, 23-feet long and 15 feet high parking spa[...]
May 7th, 2012 - 8:23 am § in The Ave Scene
Apple, the iMALL, and the retail wars,
Target’s decision to stop selling Kindle makes sense. The Kindle is much more than an e reader, it is a virtual store front. Sitting in my arm chair or by a fire at the campsite, I can use the Kindle to shop at Amazon for anything Target sells. Target selling Kindles makes no ,more sense[...]
March 28th, 2012 - 10:56 pm § in Misc.
North Korea Announces Invitation to Foreign Investors
KCNA March 23. 2012 Juch 101 It is a consistent policy of the DPRK Government to enhance economic cooperation with other countries, while beefing up its self-reliant national economy. In December last year, the government amended investment-related laws, including the DPRK Law and Regulations on For[...]
February 15th, 2012 - 6:01 pm § in The Ave Scene, UW
Richard Zerbe: Doing Things Is Worthwhile!
Decades-old riddle in economics — solved? By Peter Kelley UW News and Information You could say that the economic field of benefit-cost analysis has been stuck in a loop on a specific matter for 70 years — a kind of logical figure-eight that leads not forward, but back upon itself. And you could[...]
What Happened to America As The Land of Opportunity
Der Spiegel Reports: Has America Become an Oligarchy? The Occupy Wall Street movement is just one example of the sudden outbreak of tension between America’s super-rich and the “other 99 percent.” Experts now say the US has entered a second Gilded Age, but one in which hedge fund m[...]
October 11th, 2011 - 10:26 am § in The Ave Scene
Rosetta, a child of Seattle Biotech, lays off workers.
UPDATE: The title above is incorrect. This Rosetta, despite its name, is not a spin off from the Rosetta founded by Steve Friend in Seattle. Nonetheless, the loss of Rosetta from Seattle is inestimable. Friend has assembled a world class team under Eric Schadt. Schadt left Seattle and is now bui[...]
Nobel Prize Cut by One Fifth!
Sagging Global Economy Causes NOBEL PRIZE Prize Winnings To Be Slashed 20%! For those in the waiting …. bad news![...]