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...allow artists to deliver services "quicker, faster, better and cheaper" to its fans, said Luke Froeb, associate professor at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management and a former senior economist with the FTC and Justice Department. From a stock perspective, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney sees significantly bigger growth than Ticketmaster would enjoy...
...Glick figured that for U.S. households to resume a debt-to-income ratio of 100% over the next decade, the savings rate would have to nearly double, from its already elevated 5.7% all the way up to 10%. That would subtract three-quarters of a percentage point from consumption growth each year...
...already ill on the inside. Second, we tend to think decline happens because of complacency - people just sitting still, not being aggressive or innovating. But we found there's often tremendous change and innovation leading right up to the point of fall. It's overreaching: undisciplined growth, undisciplined risk-taking. Finally, I was surprised by how far you really can fall and still come back - it's one of the most wonderful things to come from this work. The tendency for many of us might be to give up too early. (See pictures of retailers that have gone...
...Some observers wondered whether money, and not morality, might be motivating the government, which for years has tried to support the growth of China's indigenous software industry. A prominent blogger who calls himself Imagethief wrote that he "detects the whiff of a sweetheart deal. Certainly the company that produced the software, Jinhui Computer System Engineering Company, will cash a nice check from the government, which will apparently underwrite the inclusion of the program." Jinhui Computer System Engineering, a private company based in Henan Province, currently offers the Green Dam Youth Escort software to the public as a free download...
...Therein lies a critical challenge for Asia. Unless it comes up with a new source of demand to support its export-led growth model, Asia will face stiff and enduring headwinds. Nowhere is this more evident than in China, where the mood has turned particularly upbeat. While I no longer doubt that China's performance will be better than expected in 2009, there is good reason to be wary of extrapolation. China's incipient rebound relies on a timeworn stimulus formula: upping the ante on infrastructure spending to support growth in anticipation of a return of global demand for Chinese...