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No Business is an Island
4 hours 2 minutes ago
When English poet John Donne wrote his famous line ?No man is an island,? some 389 years ago, he was forecasting the future of social innovation. Donne was thinking metaphorically of course, but his point that we are all part of the larger fabric of humanity applies to a much more literal trend I discovered in recent travels to two island nations?Japan and Iceland. That old mantra of think globally, act locally is out. Japanese and Icelandic businesses are replacing it with think globally, act globally, and they are doing it in the pursuit of double, if not triple ...
How Bayern Munich Beat Borussia Dortmund To Win The 2013 Champions League
Yesterday
Background
The Bundesliga became the fourth league to provide both teams for a Champions League Final. La Liga (Real Madrid vs. Valencia ’00), Serie A (Milan vs. Juventus ’03) and the Barclays Premier League (Manchester United vs. Chelsea ’08) all came before.
Bayern was making a third appearance in the final of the Champions League in the last four seasons having lost previously to Inter in 2010 and to Chelsea in 2012.
Bayern entered the match having already won the Bundesliga and with a date against Stuttgart next weekend in the German Cup Final. This was stage 2 of a possible treble and ...
5 Places For Your Cash Instead Of Money Markets & Treasurys
Yesterday
EverBank World Markets of St. Louis, Mo. recommends these alternative fixed income investments instead of U.S. money market accounts or even long term Treasury bonds that pay under 2.2% interest.
Move Over Japanese Yen, Make Way For China's Yuan
Yesterday
By 2015 the Chinese currency, the renminbi (RMB), will be one of the three most traded currencies in the world, on par with the euro and the dollar, HSBC said on Friday.
Billionaires Who Spent Time Behind Bars
Yesterday
Thousands Of Jailed Russian Oligarchs May Finally Walk
Yesterday
Around 6,000 of Russia's jailed oligarchs, the multi-millionaire business men who ran afoul of the Putin Administration in the late 1990s and early half of the 2000s may soon be granted amnesty, business daily Kommersant reported Saturday.
The Whole Bluth And Nothing But The Bluth: An 'Arrested Development' FAQ
Yesterday
"I've made a huge mistake." "There's always money in the banana stand." "Motherboy." If you don't understand why the people around you have lately taken to uttering these phrases and then simpering like they just said something clever, it's probably because you never got into "Arrested Development."
Why I'm Not Binge Watching 'Arrested Development'
Yesterday
Unless you've been living under a rock (or don't care about pop culture), you know that the beloved but little-watched TV series Arrested Development is making its return this weekend. At 12:01 am PST Sunday, all 15 episodes of season 4 will be immediately available on Netflix.
How State Governments Raise Costs And Rip Hundreds Of Billions Off The Federal Government, Using Health Insurance Premium Taxes
Yesterday
One of the reasons why our government is so messed up is because it’s so complicated. Complexity is the best friend of clever—but dishonest—people who take advantages of subtleties of the law to enrich themselves at the expense of others. Nowhere is this more true than in the U.S. health-care system. And one of the biggest perpetrators of financial shenanigans in our health-care system is state governments. Because Washington subsidizes health insurance for hundreds of millions of Americans, states have figured out that by taxing insurance premiums, they can generate billions of dollars in extra revenue for themselves. But that ...
Five Quick and Important Facts On Health Insurance Through Obamacare
Yesterday
The year is flying by and beginning in 2014, you’ll be required to have health insurance coverage. There is still significant confusion on how insurance will be bought and sold, and how much it will cost. In this post, I discuss five quick facts you need to know to prepare for the health insurance change.
#1 - Where will you get health insurance?
Insurance will be purchased exactly the same place you purchase insurance now – through large employers, small employers, individual coverage, or public programs. The big difference – large employers will be required to offer coverage or pay a fine. ...
Music Streaming Service Supplies Upbeat Playlists For The Fitness Freak
Yesterday
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Annual Healthcare Costs For Family of 4 Now At $22,030
Yesterday
It's that time of year for our annual check-up with the folks at Milliman. We'll cut to the chase - it's not good news. The full report is available (here) and the chart for annual healthcare costs for a fictional family of 4 (with a PPO) for each of the last 11 years
Who Got Rich This Week: A 3D Printer Maker, A High Tech Bookseller And More
Yesterday
Each week at Forbes we scan our database of corporate insiders to see who got richer from the action in the stock market. A flat week was turned by a steep sell off on Wednesday afternoon as Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke testified before Congress on the current state of the American economy. When he hinted that the central bank could potentially begin to slow its bond buying pace before the end of the year, stock prices fell, yields on 10 year Treasury notes rose and gold dove back below $1,400 per ounce. Though economic observers have reason to believe ...
Why Europe Really Has To Drill For Shale And Quickly
Yesterday
There's a fascinating little report here about the effects of shale gas on the European energy market. The conclusion to be drawn from it is that Europe really does need to be drilling for shale gas and quickly. The reason for this though is that the US has already decided to do so: and it's the effects of the US shale revolution that mean that Europe's got to follow.
Google Glass's #1 Fan
Yesterday
For an unreleased product whose initial price point (and utility?) remains a disconnect for most people, Google Glass (via Google+ and Twitter) certainly has garnered a boffo share of media attention - good, bad and geeky.
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