Submitted by Businomics Blog
Last year the business strategy segment of the Businomics Audio Magazine featured a segment on “Business Uses for Web 2.0: How Companies Can Help Their Customers and Their Employees While Cutting Costs” (Transcript available for free).
Now McKinsey Quarterly features an article describing the same thing, highlighting some of the hurdles and issues […]

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Submitted by Econbrowser
This morning we were pleased to welcome Janet Yellen, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to our UCSD Economics Roundtable. She focused on three main challenges: the housing slump, financial market turmoil, and commodity prices, which she likened to the three witches from Macbeth. Her complete speech is available from […]

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Submitted by unsettling economics
Here is my contribution for the panel on freedom, which got hammered out today after I cleared my head with an hour and a half of basketball, mostly unsuccessfully trying to keep up with a 20-year-old Vietnamese kid. My goal here was to speak against the idea of individual responsibility.
Mark Skousen, the […]

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Submitted by The Capital Spectator
Oil is a commodity, but it’s also something more, and therein lies the complication, risk and opportunity.
The dual status of oil as raw material and proxy for global macroeconomic risk dates to at least the 1973-74 oil crisis, when OPEC waged an economic war against the West with crude as its […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
1-Year Return: DJ Commodity Index vs. DJIA
WASHINGTON POST — Soaring fuel prices that are burning a hole in the wallets of consumers are not only benefiting oil companies and Middle Eastern producers. They are also lighting up the investment returns of pensions funds, which millions of ordinary Americans are counting on for […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Fort Worth (TX) Star Telegram — From Main Street to Wall Street, the economic news gets more depressing every day, but things could be worse: You could be living outside of Texas.

Last week, the government reported that the U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June, the sixth consecutive monthly decline. Texas, meanwhile, […]

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