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BusinessWeek February 29, 2008 Geri Smith |
When Will Cuba Be Open for Business? It's unclear whether a new U.S. President would lift the 45-year trade embargo, but public opinion favors improved relations between the countries. |
Salon.com September 28, 2001 Damien Cave |
Greenspan's New Deal Save the poor! No breaks for the rich! Has the Fed chairman become a tax-and-spend Democrat? |
Salon.com January 10, 2001 Damien Cave |
How Alan Greenspan runs the world Bob Woodward, author of a new book on the Federal Reserve chairman, explains the "maestro's" search for an economic soft landing... |
Reason February 2002 Sam MacDonald |
Cuban Confusion How well has the decades-old U.S. embargo of Cuba worked? The official story is that the 39-year-old time-out imposed on our island neighbor to the south of Florida has successfully isolated Fidel Castro and friends from the rest of the world. Cuban officials are all too happy to agree... |
Reason May 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Connecticut vs. Cuba The Cuban government took a surprising step forward regarding taxis, loosening the strict rules, even going so far as to let taxis set their own rates, while Connecticut taxi drivers aren't as lucky. |
Wired June 2006 Daniel Gross |
The Other Fed Chief Philip Rosedale is the founder and CEO of Linden Lab. But he prefers to think of himself as the Federal Reserve chair of Second Life, the popular online role-playing world Linden Lab operates. |
Reason March 2007 Glenn Garvin |
Fidel's Favorite Propagandist How a New York Times reporter's passion for Castro led him astray. Book Review: The Man Who Invented Fidel: Cuba, Castro, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times, by Anthony DePalma. |
BusinessWeek October 1, 2007 Michael Mandel |
The Maestro Speaks His Mind "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World" is a careful, sometimes powerfully provocative memoir by the former Fed chief. |
Insurance & Technology March 26, 2010 Anthony O'Donnell |
Fidel Castro Applauds US Healthcare Reform Castro calls reform a "miracle" and a victory over "lobbyists and political mercenaries," in qualified praise of President Obama, whom he calls a "fanatical believer in the imperialist capitalist system." |
BusinessWeek August 14, 2006 Frederik Balfour |
Cuba: Visit To An Island Frozen In Time One reporter finds scant evidence that Cuba is poised for change after Castro. |
Inc. May 2007 Sarah Goldstein |
Perestroika Continues Will Cuba, post-Fidel, be ready for U.S. trade? |
Reason January 2006 Jeff A. Taylor |
The Gentle Persuader The Fed should be moving to a neutral stance on rates just as Greenspan leaves, which buys Bernanke time. But sooner or later the business cycle pendulum will swing back; it will be time to ease. |
Home Theater April 3, 2008 Mark Fleischmann |
Semi-Liberated Cubans Buy Electronic Goods The new government in Cuba will allow the purchase of electronic goods such as TVs, DVDs and computers, but prices are aimed at the wealthy population. |
InternetNews April 14, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
U.S. Promotes Telecom Expansion Into Cuba New policies aiming to spur Cuban-American communications could be a boon for U.S. telecom providers. |
Reason June 2002 Matt Welch |
Foul Ball How a communist dictatorship and a U.S. embargo has silenced a revered Cuban baseball historian... |
Financial Advisor April 2008 Gregory Bresiger |
Life Of The Party William Fleckenstein, hedge fund manager and author, asserts that Alan Greenspan's easy-money policies caused two bubbles, resulting in stock market and real estate crashes. |
U.S. Banker November 2005 |
Finding the Country's Next Alan Greenspan The former Fed chairman's stewardship of the economy has taken on an almost biblical meaning. Succeeding, never mind outperforming, him will be anything but easy. |
InternetNews January 30, 2006 Paul Shread |
Farewell Greenspan, Hello Google Tuesday will be an eventful day for investors... Stocks were mixed Monday... eBay fell on the latest in its counterfeit jewelry dispute with Tiffany... etc. |
The Motley Fool March 1, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: Greenspan's Prescient Call What was Greenspan really saying this time? People can no better decipher Greenspan's double-talk today than they could when he was the chairman of the Federal Reserve. |
The Motley Fool December 17, 2004 |
The Stock Market's Weird Ways It's odd, but the stock market often tanks when there's good economic news reported. That might not make sense to you, but there's an explanation. |
Reason April 2008 Kerry Howley |
Cigar Bar The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the effort going into policing Cuban cigars might be reducing the security of the homeland. |
Wired December 2004 Douglas Starr |
The Cuban Biotech Revolution Embargo or no, Castro's socialist paradise has quietly become a pharmaceutical powerhouse. (They're still working on the capitalism thing.) |
Sports Illustrated March 17, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Knight dictates his own terms Bob Knight, the 59-year-old dictator from Indiana, stepped up to the lectern here and delivered a similarly mind-numbing defense of his program... |
Fast Company September 1, 2007 Elizabeth Spiers |
The Hollow Man Peeling the layers off Alan Greenspan's real contribution to the economy. |
The Motley Fool December 2, 2004 |
Why Mortgage Rates Rise and Fall Remember that the money markets themselves (basic supply and demand for money at each price point) exert the biggest influence over interest rates, though the Fed is a big influence on market expectations. |
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 Rich Miller |
In Greenspan's Shadow In A Term at the Fed, An Insider's View, former Federal Reserve Governor Laurence H. Meyer offers a peek at how the fed chairman wields clout. |
The Motley Fool July 7, 2004 Brian Gorman |
Crude Near Cuba How will Repsol's findings affect energy reserves, U.S. policies, and the Cuban populace? |
Registered Rep. October 24, 2005 Halah Touryalai |
Bernanke Nomination Applauded by Brokerage Industry With the nomination of Ben Bernanke to chairman of the Federal Reserve Board -- likely the most powerful banking job in the world -- President Bush hit the nail on the head, say brokerage industry officials, as well as brokers. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Barker & Magyer |
Who's More to Blame: The Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act or Alan Greenspan? March Madness series: The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act deserves the blame, or maybe it's Alan Greenspan's fault, for making borrowing too cheap. |
IndustryWeek September 1, 2005 Michael K. Evans |
Evans On The Economy -- Assessing Alan Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve has done a competent but not outstanding job. |
Reason September 2005 Matt Welch |
Quien es Libre? The U.S. government tightens its Cuban embargo policy by restricting fringe religion-related travel there. |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2004 |
Understanding Stock Market Gyrations Sometimes Alan Greenspan is behind the curtain, moving the market. |
Inc. October 2007 Leigh Buchanan |
Ayn of a Thousand Pages Ayn Rand's characters embody a philosophy she called "objectivism," a worldview that eschewed religion but gave a big thumbs-up to facts, reason, capitalism, and rational self-interest. |
Wired June 22, 2009 Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on Cuba's Potential Tech Boom In sheer human potential, Cuba is an economic and technological miracle waiting to happen. |
Financial Advisor December 2009 Evan Simonoff |
Is Goldilocks Back? The editor of this publication talks about the sunnier outlook of the economy. |
Reason October 2001 Michael W. Lynch |
No Controlling Authority The economy is too complex for even Alan Greenspan to handle... |
InternetNews June 6, 2005 Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: Stocks Tread Water Greenspan comments will likely be key this week. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Alan Greenspan: Another Bull Market Awaits Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan wrote a long, wonky paper on the economy last week stating that stocks are cheap compared with the alternatives, and thus, a bull awaits. |
BusinessWeek March 12, 2007 Christopher Farrell |
How Alan Helped Ben Greenspan just made Bernanke's job a bit easier. |
Entrepreneur November 2006 Kristin Ohlson |
Connect with Cuba The embargo is still in place, but it's not too early to dream. |
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Rich Miller |
Why Greenspan Will Just Let It Ride Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will wait till there's less economic slack to raise interest rates. |
Salon.com January 25, 2001 Carina Chocano |
The people's Cuba Thierry Le Goues' new collection of photos, "Popular," reveals Castro's lush and decaying secret... |
Salon.com January 26, 2001 Charles Taylor |
"Before Night Falls" Julian Schnabel's tale of a gay Cuban poet smolders with vivid sensuality. Plus: Johnny Depp in drag... |
Inc. October 2003 Anton Piech |
Small Biz Barges into Cuba Get this: Fidel Castro hates dissent, yet he appears to like American entrepreneurs. |
The Motley Fool May 2, 2008 Todd Wenning |
A Rice Cartel? The week in world stock market news. |
Financial Advisor September 2005 J. Kevin Meaders |
Riding Out The Interest Rate Conundrum As soon as the market thinks the Fed is done manipulating the rate (let's just call it what it is), you'll see the demand for longer terms strengthen, and poof -- just like that, there goes the conundrum. |
U.S. Banker May 2002 |
Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan clearly believes that business should be big and should be run in a clubby atmosphere. Or else he chooses not to hear, see or speak of evil... |
Reason April 2008 Michael C. Moynihan |
Shoot Down Over Cuba A bold documentary takes Castro to task for senseless murders. |
BusinessWeek March 15, 2004 Rich Miller |
Greenspan Unbound As the Fed Chairman's term winds down, his opinions are getting more pointed |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2008 David A. Geracioti |
It's All Greenspan's Fault A conversation with William Fleckenstein, whose book, Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance At The Federal Reserve, was recently published by McGraw-Hill. |