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...billion gift to the Salvation Army from the late Joan Kroc and the staggering $37.1 billion pledge from Warren Buffett to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, lead some folks to conclude that big charities don't need their support--although the huge gifts more than offset any loss of small donations...
What no one in Wolfsburg wants to admit is that VW may have a broken business model in the U.S. Unlike BMW or Mercedes-Benz, VW can't charge the rich prices necessary to offset the cost of exporting from Germany. And unlike its German rivals, VW doesn't make cars in the U.S.--its one American plant shut in 1988--a problem given the dollar's slump versus the euro...
Laugh tracking all the way to the bank, U.S. TV studios are counting on foreign sales to offset the losses they incur selling prime-time TV shows to the networks. While an hour of episodic TV typically costs $2.5 million to produce, studios usually recoup only 65% of the cost from networks, adding up to $45 million to $55 million in deficits each season. Syndication and foreign rights turn losers into winners. "If we didn't have international sales, no studio could afford to produce those shows," says 20th Century Fox's Newman. "They're critical...
Working in an archaic mode has its competitive advantages. "Because the presses are obsolete, you're not competing with other people who are getting the newest machinery, so actually our capital investment is far less than most offset printers'," says Julie Holcomb, who has run Julie Holcomb Printers in Emeryville, Calif., for 25 years. Ironically, she adds, advances in computer technology have allowed letterpress designers to use photopolymer plates--which contain the image and text to be printed--in place of hand-set type. "I hope the people who are printing now--me included--are helping develop an audience that...
...achieve that? By letting free markets discover the best solutions and invest in them. Create a market for carbon removal, and set limits on companies' allowance for carbon emissions. Companies that pollute less get credits and can then sell those credits to other companies, who buy them to offset their excess carbon. A similar market system for sulfur dioxide is already in place to cut sulfur pollution in half by 2010, dramatically reducing acid rain...