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...home," whose every appliance leaps to attention at your command: finding and dialing the number you request, diagnosing that ping in your car, displaying the recipe you choose, deciding which ingredients you're missing and ordering them for instant delivery from the grocer. What's more, each machine would borrow the computing power it needs on a moment-to-moment basis by accessing a wider network via wireless signal, without the annoyance of the endless peripherals yoked to today's desktop...
These high, demand-driven prices become, in a sense, a self-fulfilling prophecy. So-called short sellers--speculators who borrow stock and then sell it in the expectation that its price will drop--have been furiously buying back shares in recent months to cut their losses as the stock goes up. But such panicky buying only serves to raise prices higher still. So do hopes that a FORTUNE 500 giant will pour big bucks into an Internet company. Disney did just that last month when it acquired a 43% stake in InfoSeek, the third largest Internet search engine...
...quite the way a National Basketball Association team would go after Michael Jordan. But if you're a manager in the American Hiring League, you are looking for employees in the hottest U.S. economy in 28 years, and you're going to have to wheel and deal, beg, borrow and steal--however and wherever you can--to find the help you need. Not since 1970, when the Vietnam War and a guns-and-butter economy created a huge demand for skilled manpower, has there been a tougher time to expand the corporate work force, especially in the high-tech industries...
...rest of the year will probably be wiped out, with serious repercussions for our economy," says TIME reporter Bernard Baumohl. Even more serious than the trade deficit is the $47.2 billion all-time high in the current account deficit -- the indicator of the amount America has to borrow from overseas. Baumohl warns that the record current account deficit represents a serious threat to the long-term health of the dollar...
More than a million homeowners overpaying on their mortgages could soon get a windfall. The rebate stems from private mortgage insurance, which lenders require if you borrow more than 80% on a home. Yet many people keep paying the $50 to $150 a month even after their equity has reached 20%. Bills now before Congress would force the private firms to stop the unnecessary charges. But don't wait: check your equity statements...