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Mike is a friend and has been a friend for a long time. He's a very intelligent human being, and he is extraordinarily funny. When he did this movie, I was not a consultant. I wish I had been. Because it wasn't well done. What Mike was trying to do was aim at 14-year-olds, but at the same time he was trying to bring some fairly esoteric complex concepts from Eastern philosophy. It didn't work...
...government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) are a handful of midsize banks, which rank among the 50 largest in the nation by the Federal Reserve. And that has a number of analysts and investors who follow these companies worried. "It's a case of be careful what you wish for," says Thomas Brown, whose hedge fund Second Curve Capital specializes in financial firms. "We asked for the $700 billion, and we asked for capital purchases of bank shares. Now we have a case where if banks don't get approved for this money, they may not be able...
...economy worsens, fundraising has become, and is going to be, an increasingly difficult challenge. Alumni have voiced much concern about funding financial aid: their wish to establish a “rainy day fund” for scholarship holders covering them in case of crisis, is being taken seriously. Unfortunately, no one knows how long the rain will last...
...wish I was smart enough to know. It's scary. I don't know how you turn that around...
Other sites, like the month-old Wishabi, involve members acting as personal shoppers. People post wish lists while deal hunters (anyone can serve as one) search the Net to find the best bargains for those items. The results are then rated by the site's Deal Rank software. If the person ends up buying an item, the deal hunter who found the price gets a small percentage of the commission. "People are leveraging other people to determine if deals are good," says Wehuns Tan, CEO of Wishabi. Adds Resource Interactive's Rollins: "The retailer that accepts that social media...