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...news," says Song Seng Wun, regional economist at CIMB-GK Research in Singapore, who like other market-watchers believes some sort of bailout plan will get through. Unlike U.S. taxpayers, market actors in Asia aren't overly concerned about details like limiting golden parachutes extended to disgraced CEOs of bankrupt financial companies, or whether the U.S. government gets enough equity for their investment. "They just want something to be passed," notes Kowalcyzk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Markets React with Caution to US Crisis | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...those historians should not forget that roots of the failure predate the vote on Monday, and even the mistakes of Wall Street. Years ago, the trust between the people and their politicians was broken. Credibility was lost. The reserve of goodwill went bankrupt. And when they needed it most, our nation's leaders found that they had squandered their ability to exert influence over the people who chose them to lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bailout Defeat: A Political Credibility Crisis | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...propose to all the companies flailing in this soon-to-be bankrupt economy a "take-away test" to figure out which of your employees you really need. Simply give each worker a nice long vacation - paid, of course (it will be a cost-saver in the long run). Then sit back and see what happens. If your business output suffers and important things go undone, get that employee back. Your company clearly needs him or her. If, on the other hand, you find no discernable fall-off in business, you know what to do: Give him a raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Workplace Quiz: Which Employees Are Worth Keeping? | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

...adjudicate these matters - to tell the patient that he or she is cured and has to go back to work - when companies want their employees back. But the sad truth is that within our medico-legal system, any doc would be a fool, and a soon-to-be bankrupt fool, if he thinks he can force a patient to return to work against his will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Workplace Quiz: Which Employees Are Worth Keeping? | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

Clearly, Jobs, who left Apple in a power struggle, then returned to resurrect it from a near bankrupt state, learned something from his missteps. The iPhone is more open than Apple's computers. Apple relies almost exclusively on third parties to create software for the iPhone, and even sells it to developers in its App Store. That's why iPhone applications look to be a $1 billion business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google vs. iPhone: Is Steve Jobs Reliving Past Mistakes? | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

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