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...India's outsourcing giant WiPro (WIP) recently posted mediocre financial results, especially based on Wall St expectations. Its stock traded for $14 a little over a year ago. Recently it was as low as $5. Wall St. expects that the situation at the firm is going to get worse. The other large outsourcing operation in India, Infosys (INFY), is also doing poorly...
...ended when Americans got tired of being alarmed and hectored, and "the '70s" ended when stimulants became more popular than depressants and AIDS appeared. But in all salient respects, "the '80s" - Reaganism's reshaping of the political economy, the thrall of the PC, the vertiginous rise in the stock market...
...want to feel encouraged about our economic near future - not this damned decade but the one to come - ignore the stock traders and go talk to some venture capitalists. They aren't quite giddy (after the '80s and '90s and '00s, beware all giddiness), but they are optimistic about an imminent tide of innovations in technology, energy and transportation. Recall, please, the national mood in the mid-'70s: after the 1960s party, we found ourselves in a slough of despondency, with an oil crisis, a terrible recession, a kind of Weimarish embrace of decadence, national malaise - and at that very...
...digital devices and networked systems, biotechnology, subatomic nanotechnology. As China and other developing countries finally achieve the industrial plenty that we enjoyed 50 years ago, the U.S. can stay ahead once again by pioneering the next-generation technologies that the increasingly industrialized world will require. (Read "Will China's Stock Market Rebound Before...
...Treasury only just found out about the bonus payments. This week, though, Geithner was saved, in part, by the introduction Monday of the long-awaited details of his plan to get credit flowing again. Unlike his first stab at a rollout, this scheme was well received by the stock market, sending the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 500 points, the fourth best day of trading since 1933 (though many economists still had doubts about it). At least half the questions Tuesday were forward-looking, centered on the particulars of the public/private partnership plan to get toxic assets...