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The failure of these New Economy players in China is in stark contrast to the success of brick-and-mortar companies. Consumer stars like Nike, food franchises like Kentucky Fried Chicken, industrial giants like General Electric and United Technologies, and technology behemoths ranging from Microsoft to Intel to IBM have...
Of course, losing subscribers is not exactly going to help beef up the Times's copydesk. But as a consumer, she had a point: Why pay for a product that disappoints her? So what if the newspaper business model is challenging. That's not her problem. Just fix it! (See...
When politicians began discussing similar restrictions at the federal level, nervous investors sold off the pawnshop stocks. When the most restrictive proposal - a 36% cap proposed by Senator Richard Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois - failed to win support, the shares rebounded. However, the Senator has reintroduced the bill in the...
Blankfein even seemed to show some support for a consumer financial-product regulator, saying he thought there should be more attention paid to how financial markets interact with the retail market. But when it comes to more restrictions on the way large Wall Street firms like Goldman do business, Blankfein...
What's the alternative? The Federal Government could enforce the new national rules, but this would require creating a sizable new regulatory bureaucracy, even though one already exists at the state level. The states don't want that to happen. If the federal bureaucrats assumed regulatory control, says Sandy Praeger...