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...sale of a cup of coffee seems like a meaningless thing, but experts report that more than 110 million Americans drink it and total national consumption is more than 300 million cups a day. Part of the reason that so many people pick coffee over other beverages is the health benefits. Medical experts say that modest consumption has physical effects that range from slowing cognitive decline in the elderly to an improvement of the level of serum cholesterol in the blood. But, it is more likely that coffee is attractive because it is a legal stimulant, a drug without...
...looks far worse for Toronto-based Nortel Networks, a key supplier to North American telcos and once the brightest light in the Canadian economy. It was worth $250 billion, or about 35% of the total market capitalization of the Toronto Stock Exchange, before it flamed out in the post-dotcom bust. Earlier this year, Nortel, a company with $10.4 billion in annual revenues that has spent nearly a decade mired in accounting scandals and feckless attempts to reinvent itself, initiated bankruptcy proceedings. It will probably sell its most prized assets to chief rivals, including Nokia Siemens Networks and Avaya...
...networks to support voice than to retrofit telephone networks for video and high-speed Internet. The sharp decline Bell Canada has sustained in its core fixed-line business is mirrored in telcos around the world. In the U.S., cable companies added 4.9 million voice subscribers in 2008, bringing their total to 20 million. By contrast, AT&T, Verizon and Qwest lost 10.9 million voice customers last year...
...vehicle and pay our credit card in full each month. Where is the problem? Health care is simply out of control. I was taken to the emergency room a few weeks ago. Ambulance bill: $959. Hospital bill: $13,830. Follow-up with a personal physician and specialist: $463. Total: $15,252 for a six-hour, non-life-threatening situation that was diagnosed incorrectly in the emergency room. No wonder the country is in trouble. Frugality cannot cure this type of debt, and common situations like this one cannot be ignored. Jean Dennis, WESTMINSTER, COLO...
...time when credit in China is rapidly expanding -loans in the first quarter totaled $670 billion, almost equaling total lending for all of 2008- the risk of bad loans is increasing. With small and medium-sized private firms collapsing with disturbing frequency, SOEs offer Chinese banks a margin of safety: an implicit guarantee that the government will ultimately make good on their loans. This is making it harder for China's banks to adopt modern risk-management practices and diversify their traditional customer base, which is largely SOEs. "It's difficult to go on a massive spending binge...