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...markets shot up with so little volatility that speculators were encouraged to borrow and bet with ever greater abandon. Now, with confidence shaken by the belated realization that risk is not dead after all, they will be less inclined to ignore the reality that the global economy and corporate profit growth are likely to be far more disappointing than their giddy optimism led them to believe...
...France employees so that they began to feel involved in the airline's management (staff opinions are sought on cabin uniforms from Christian Lacroix), and he struck labor agreements that would leave American managers gobsmacked. "We found a right balance of effort and reward, of commitment to plan and profit sharing via salaries and benefits," Spinetta explains. "Since then, the success of the company has depended on employees understanding our strategy, getting fully behind it and feeling secure knowing that if it all works out, profits from it will be redistributed to them." It's also allowing Spinetta to continue...
...months a market to trade emission credits. TXU, as part of its agreement, plans to join DuPont, Alcoa, General Electric and seven other firms in pushing Congress for a national cap-and-trade program, that would give companies "credits" for carbon emissions to use--or sell at a profit. It's a win for the environment, notes Reilly, and not bad for the bottom line either...
...January. That followed an unnerving speech by someone many consider the great economic forecaster of our era, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. On Feb. 26, he warned in a speech that investors couldn't rule out the possibility of a U.S. recession in 2007, noting that corporate profit margins "have begun to stabilize, which is an early sign we are in the later stages of a cycle." Most economists had figured the U.S. was downshifting from a growth rate of 3.5% to about 2%, but few had predicted a recession. Greenspan's warning was particularly chilling because the truth...
...growing addiction to TV, and one could argue that hype and attention fueled his random acts of violence. In the end, the film indicts mass media nearly as much as the killer, himself. Fincher portrays the media not as a fact-finding source, but as a for-profit company that gives voice and confidence to the wrong people. —Reviewer Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...