???Happy birthday to the bull market, which turned three March 9. It's been far from smooth sailing (what bull market is?) as the bull has contended near constantly with greatly exaggerated rumors of its death at the hands of some tiny European nations' debt loads, "too-high" unemployment, a US double-dip (that never happened), contentious politics, ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 16:53

Audiences have to be passive most of the time. Allow them to be active and they'll give you lots of energy back.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 19:55

What's the goal of Goldman's muppet hunt?

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 17:26

"I do biz dev." Few times in history have more ambiguous words been spoken. ??Ask ten "VPs of????Development" or similarly business card-ed folks what is business development, and you're like to get just as many answers. "??development is sales," some will say, concisely. "??development is partnerships," others will say, vaguely. "??development is hustling,"??the??startup folks will ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 16:57

It?s like applying instant replay?to your entire life. You have habits you realize you need to change?eating too much, drinking too much, or not exercising enough?and you take a day out of your life and examine it, blow by blow, to find the ?pressure? points where you let your brain go on auto-pilot. Charles Duhigg?s ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 17:57

Liberals and moderates are watching the GOP tackle issues like contraception and religion with horrified bafflement. Are they trying to lose?

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 19:56

We must be at the point where statisticians are being employed around the globe just to keep track of the records being set by . This past week Messi beat the Barcelona all-time goal scoring record of Cesar Rodriguez that had stood for over half a century. They say that records are made to be ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 14:56

A recent research article in Science brings home one of the more disturbing aspects of adaptive evolution: spontaneous abortion as a survival mechanism among primates. Field studies by Jacinta C. Beehner of University of Michigan, and her team, revealed that female geladas, (Theropithecus gelada), a species of Old World Monkey found in Ethiopia, will terminate ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 18:26

One of the most common nuggets of advice dispensed by??financial??experts is to pay down your??debt aggressively. According to this strategy, paying down high-interest rate loans and debt before saving for retirement ensures that??compound interest doesn?t eat up any more of your disposable??funds than is necessary. In many personal financial situations, this makes sense. However, the ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 15:27

It?s become a regular ritual:?? waiting outside stores for the new iPad, as some people did today. But there was a time when even bigger throngs of people waited to look at new cars. Known as the Motorama, these annual events built into a formidable sales and marketing powerhouse. From 1949 to 1961, millions of ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 16:53