Finance
The Unfulfilled Promise of Exports
Increasing exports has long been a campaigning point for the office of U.S. presidency. It is no secret that a sound trade policy must center on American-made goods hitting the shelves overseas. Every president of the last hundred years – Republican or Democrat – has understood this and searched for ways to boost exports. Recently [...]
The Message from U.S. Politicians to American Companies: Either Move Out or Go Bankrupt!
Wake up! Where are our jobs? They are being shipped overseas along with our wealth. Too many of our dollars spent on foreign manufactured products are spent directly on imports, including much of our capital equipment and strategic items like electronics, computers, transportation equipment, and other machinery. How Did This Happen? China has now accumulated [...]
Semantic Propaganda Feeds Stupidity
We would already have had a much needed American revolution in response to the tyranny of the money-fed two-party plutocracy that is destroying the middle class except for one big problem: so much of the American population is just plain stupid. Too stupid to behave like angry Greeks and rise up in the streets to [...]
Executive Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession
The 17th annual executive compensation survey looks at how CEOs laid off thousands while raking in millions. America’s CEOs had a terribly rough 2009. Or so the national and regional executive pay surveys released so far this year would suggest. “CEOs See Pay Fall Again,” blared one headline early this past spring. “CEO pay rankings [...]
The Myth of Privatization in China
As the People’s Republic of China privatizes companies, there is the illusion that the country is transforming from a communist state to a more capitalist society, like the United States. The reality is dangerously different. The “Socialist Market System” (SMS), as the Chinese call it, is very much what the name implies: a socialist system. [...]
Textile Industry Threatened By KORUS
Now that the South Korean government has ratified the U.S.- South Korea free trade agreement (KORUS), it is set to go into effect early next year. This will likely have negative effects on many U.S. industries, and some will be completely devastated. One industry that looks to be hit particularly hard is the American textile [...]
We Must Start Fixing America Now
The United States has morphed from a manufacturing society to a service society, leading to the greatest number of unemployed/underemployed Americans since the Great Depression. With working Americans making less and less, the U.S. is running out of funding for its welfare programs. This is happening at a time when programs like health care and [...]
Wealth Gap Burdens the Entire Economy
The increasing gap between the middle class and the wealthy has garnered a great deal of attention over the last several years. Even before Occupy Wall Street’s rally against the 1 percent was a whisper in the wind, there were significant moral outcries against a growing inequality in income. But beyond the ethical implications, economists [...]
Commerce Department To Move Forward With Dumping Inquiry
A coalition of U.S. solar manufacturers has been joined by the United Steelworkers Union in petitioning the government for protective measures against Chinese solar manufacturers this week. The petition comes in response to unfair practices by Chinese manufacturers who have threatened the ability of American manufacturers to compete. U.S. solar manufacturer SolarWorld filed a petition [...]
U.S. Subsidized Lamb Producers Due To WTO Ruling
The membership of the United States in the World Trade Organization (WTO) has made it nearly impossible for the U.S. to instate trade policies that are in the best interest of the country. In fact, the United States loses 9 out of 10 cases that are brought against it in the WTO. In 1999, the [...]
Canadian Build Programs and Wealth Management
In early 2011 a survey was conducted of North American drilling contractors. The following explanation describes how the surveyors interpreted this data in terms of the differences between US and Canadian contractors and in which ways this affected wealth management. From their analysis the surveyors observed that Canadian contractors were budgeting slightly more new-build growth [...]
Customer Centric Trumps Customer Service Every Time
New product startups rightfully begin with a heads-down focus on creating the ultimate product – whether it’s a new technology, a new look and ease of use, or a new low-cost delivery approach. Most then add customer service at the rollout, but very few really understand what it means to be truly customer centric, and [...]
How Citizens United Corrupts Campaigns
Funding from private organizations and programs continues to hold major influence in campaigns and elections, thanks to the highly controversial Citizens United vs. FEC decision from early 2010. Many tax-exempt 501(c) organizations are concealing the identities of their donors, thus attracting generous assets to contribute to political advocates. These types of boosted campaigns had a [...]
Occupy Wall Street: New Politics and New Milestones
This is an extraordinary time. The astonishing Occupy Wall Street movement emerged as the heart of our 99%, claimed the little scrap of earth in Zuccotti Park on behalf of all of us, and created a live-in soapbox from which to challenge inequality — how the 1% controls our economy, buys off our government, imposes their [...]
What You Need to Know About Move Your Money Day
You may not be aware, but Saturday, November 5 is Move Your Money Day. The big conglomerate banks in the United States have created a culture of “too big to fail” in that their actions are rarely met with repercussions, especially considering the government bailouts of three or four years ago. Move Your Money Day [...]
Global Economic Crisis Deepens
Millions are being impoverished by today’s global depression. Global Depression grips world economies. Destructive polices fueled today’s crisis. Conditions are fast coming to a head. Throwing good money after bad delays decision day at the price of far greater trouble on arrival. D-Day will shake world economies. It may, in fact, be months away, perhaps [...]
Banks draw up code on lending for power plants
Dirty coal-fired power plants would not be financed under standards being drawn up by some of Europe’s best-known banks in a sign of the growing pressure on lenders to scale down support for fossil fuels. HSBC and Standard Chartered in the UK, and France’s BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole have helped develop the code, along [...]
On-line Security And Internet Banking
Web banking is very typical these days. Most banks are offering web banking for buyers to ensure that they are able to manage their funds on the internet. It really is crucial that you simply select a bank that delivers safe web banking. The bank need to use 128 bit encryption technique to protect the [...]
Wall Street Reformer Cantwell Responds to Wall Street Protests
US Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) has been one of the sharpest critics of Wall Street malfeasance and one of the most adamant advocates for regulatory reform. She was also one of the few senators—Democratic or Republican—to vote against the bank bailouts. (Watch her dissident floor speech here.) Cantwell seemed positioned, in 2009, to lead the Democratic rejoinder to [...]
Healthcare Real Estate Fund Structure
Healthcare Real Estates is basically any property hosting healthcare facilities. This includes complete range of services provider and their real estate needs. In brief it can be hospital real estate, pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, research center, clinics, laboratories facilities, and senior living , assisted living homes, home care, diagnostic, special zone and research center, clinics. These are wide range of facilities considered as [...]
