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D igital L ibrarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York A Revival In American Manufacturing, Led By Brooklyn Foodies - By Adam Davidson , NPR's Planet Money , February 24, 2012. Steve Inskeep suggests that "far from being a niche market, craft food makers just might represent the future of American manufacturing." Davidson's story also appeared in the NYT: Don't Mock the Artisanal-Pickle Makers , New York Times, February 15, 2012. Last updated 4 March 2012 © 1996-2012.
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The following story is currently making the rounds on the Internet. The events probably didn’t happen exactly as described, but for my purposes it doesn’t really matter. Supposedly, a woman posted the following personal ad on Craigslist : What am I doing wrong?
The Economics of Gold-Digging
Academic Help
Chris Wyser-Pratte, who got his MBA from Stanford in 1972 and then spent the next 23 years as an investment banker, sent me the following note last night. I'm reprinting it here with his permission: I learned exactly seven things at Stanford Graduate School of Business getting an MBA degree in 1972.
What They Used To Teach You At Stanford Business School - Market Movers
The 10 Best Games for Learning About the Stock Market
Much like skydiving, playing the stock market is not an activity you want to learn through your mistakes. Fortunes are made and lost all the time by people who think (or thought) they had a handle on stock trading. If you have a few million you can afford to lose, or you're investing with someone else's money (you're a bank, in other words), by all means, jump right in.
Anytime we talk about stock picks or building a portfolio, one of the most asked questions on this blog is how to start building the portfolio itself. It’s easier said than done of course and lends easily to procrastination. Of course, this is what makes the biggest difference in the end. Making the right picks and trades is important but getting started, to actually build the portfolio is the real critical part. That being said, we decided to write a general guide.
How to start a dividend portfolio with $5,000 « Intelligent Speculator
Plus one more that might, if this African maybe-power can get its act together. Reuters About 20 years after the Soviet Union collapsed, China opened, India liberalized, and Brazil saved its economy with the Plano Real , and 10 years after a banker at Goldman Sachs labeled them the BRICs, those four economic rising powers have transformed how we think about the developing world. The centuries-old idea that there is an uncrossable gulf between powerful, rich countries and everyone else has been disproven not just by BRICs' economic power but by their use of that power to help shape world events. You might say that the glass ceiling has been broken. China, once the "sick man of Asia" and one of the world's poorest places, now boasts the world's second-largest economy and may someday soon even surpass the U.S. in wealth.
