Web 2.0 has revolutionized the panorama of the information society: users have become information producers and the new web platforms have become relationship venues where new knowledge and ideas emerge. Also the new tools of social networking, social tagging, wikis
I want to be abundantly clear about one thing. This bailout constitutes the single greatest case of ignoring the free market in modern history. As we went to press, it seems as if the bailout plan isn't going to make
2008 will have to answer questions such as: "What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy?" "What does the Constitution do?" Anyone who wants to apply for naturalization will have to answer 10 of a possible100 questions.
universally known as "Wall Street," is a huge, empty crater where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center once stood. Within weeks of the disaster that annihilated those once-glorious free market icons, fear served as the justification for a
a host of countries, including some emerging markets, banned short-selling financial stocks. In some areas, they banned short-selling altogether. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) banned shorting 799 financial companies until October 2. In doing so, they're hoping
If history is our teacher, it tells us that the dollar does respond to any crisis for a few months or so typically after the economy hits another rough patch. 09.25.08
it sounds like something Hitler's propaganda minister Josef Goebbels would have dreamed up to impress the gullible masses. Indeed, the attitude too often displayed at airports by overpaid DHS minions is akin to that of storm troopers. Two years ago
if you had a net worth over US$1 million, you gained entrance into a very exclusive club. It's not so exclusive today: According to the World Wealth Report 2008, at the end of 2007 there were about three million millionaires
Merrill Lynch ( NYSE: MER ) merged with Bank of America ( NYSE:BAC ). And - perhaps most importantly - the U.S. government bailed out AIG ( NYSE:AIG ). While all these events serve to remind the world of just
a number of attendees approached me saying..."I never knew anything like those investments even existed," followed by "Let me make sure I understood you correctly." The same thing happened a few days later in both San Diego and Dallas. In
