The Corporate "Green Olympics": Sponsors Use Green Messaging in Their Pavilions
If Beijing were to choose a representative for its "Green Olympics," China Sinopec would win gold.
In the heady world of finance, there are powerful players. Some of them believe the rules do not apply to them -- or maybe they just weren't thinking. Here are some current examples.
If Beijing were to choose a representative for its "Green Olympics," China Sinopec would win gold.
At a time when everybody is writing down the value of a bunch of assets, we're seeing some of the largest firms buy-back more trash. This will make the next few quarters of earnings releases that much more interesting.
In just a few years Pickens has moved from being a totally partisan political animal to a man who is looking for the partial truth in the disparate views of a variety of people.
Amazon claims to be able to intuit what I would want to read, so why can't it figure out that I don't want a Kindle and actually resent the thing? I am not "platform-agnostic."
In reaction to the torrent of hostile Obama books, my publisher made an early release deal with Amazon, spurring Barnes & Noble to cancel its orders and refuse to stock the book in any of its stores.
Fuel prices drive up the cost of physical goods -- and shift the economy to digital goods. Just in time.
The barrenness of the US manufacturing landscape was very much the consequence of a dollar that was too high for too long.
I'm using the verb "to proact" on a regular basis now, especially at work and in a strategic context. No matter the situation, I want proaction to be the primary strategy.
The US financial system sold the world's investors mortgage securities that were founded on faulty assumptions that a) U.S. homeowners will never default, and b) that U.S. housing prices always go up.
Chevron has been lobbying the U.S. government to pressure Ecuador to intervene the dispute between Chevron and 30,000 Amazon jungle dwellers suing the company for environmental damages.
The Republicans will always back a pro-oil immediate future, until their own voters, and the lobbyists filling their coffers with dollars, stop supporting them.
These days, you'll find more images of windmills and solar panels in campaign ads than pictures of cute babies and American flags. Why, then, is it so hard to pass a simple bill promoting solar power?