Word: markets
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...This has got to be part of a Disney expansion strategy. Where once the company aimed to keep its target market in perpetual childhood, now it is priming kids for the more overtly erotic signals of puberty. The Jonas Brothers concert is like a very gentle sex-education lecture given by the most adorable young teacher around, and his two brothers...
...Washington. So he willingly traded small pay raises for deferred compensation in the form of pensions and retirement health care. The Big Three gladly signed on because the trade-off held down cash wages - and because they were lushly profitable companies, controlling 90% of the U.S. car market. Executives never conceived of a day they might run out of money. One result, though, is that GM has paid out more than $100 billion in retiree and health-care costs over the past 15 years and is now facing $47 billion in future retiree health-care payments...
...overall insurance plan may not be. Some argue that many remain uninsured because they simply decide not to buy insurance—perhaps because of young age, for example. To avoid paying for those who can afford insurance, Obama’s team should encourage Congress to include a market mandate, which would require Americans to opt in to plans they could afford. This would help to avoid subsidizing those who do not need subsidies...
...economic recovery because it's easy for these firms to find good workers while unemployment is still high-and easy for workers to come across small companies since there are so many of them. Once the economy is chugging along at full-steam and the labor market is tight, larger companies regain the advantage, since they're likely able to offer more money-and poach from smaller outfits...
...shrink drastically. Jing Ulrich, chairman of China securities at JPMorgan in Hong Kong, noted after client meetings that "attitudes toward China's efforts to counter the economic slump seem to have turned more positive." The happy mood also showed up in Chinese stocks. By mid-February, the Shanghai stock market had surged more than 30% since the beginning of the year, making it the world's best performer. (The index has fallen off slightly since.) (See 10 things to do in Shanghai...