Word: controllable
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Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America By Julia Angwin 268 pages; Random House...
...sites, the latter is currently in the ascendant - so much so that a book devoted to MySpace's origins seems almost dated. Angwin doesn't leave the reader with a clear picture of how the site will continue to grow, but this may be out of the author's control. Perhaps MySpace isn't quite sure about that either...
Since shoppers with bigger bills are less likely to make purchases, frugal consumers can carry hundreds as a form of self-control. From a recession-fighting perspective, however, self-control is Satan. The U.S. government is desperate for consumers to start spending again. So maybe the Obama Administration is approaching the economic stimulus the wrong way. Forget about tax cuts and grants to state governments. Just give people a bunch of $1 bills...
...seems obvious to most average people now that the control, and to some extent the creation of content, began moving rapidly to the Internet as long as eleven or twelve years ago. Not a single large print media company chief saw that at the time. The role of the content CEO as visionary did not work. Looking ahead in 1998, he saw the U.S. Postal System and his unionized workers as his greatest enemies. Now newspaper unions have almost no bargaining power to save their member's jobs because the entire industry is going under...
...companies, making the Fed the lender of last resort for those firms, just as it is for traditional banks. In the past two days, Geithner unveiled the final two safeguards that he, Bernanke and Bair believe will help to prevent a future widespread financial meltdown: the power to take control of collapsing companies to ensure their failure is orderly and not contagious, and a limit to the amount of risk and leverage that non-bank financial players can take on. (Read TIME's Q&A with Sheila Bair...