What is the thing that you really want to do after graduation? Rest? Find a job? Have a break? Get married?
Most of the fresh graduates are seeking for a job right after graduation. Everybody wants to earn money and everybody wants to have a job that is related to ... Leer más
The Conference Board's consumer confidence index fell sharply in today's trading, pressuring the greenback against its major rivals. The EUR/USD tested the area just below 1.36, the USD/JPY fell to its lowest since intervention, the USD/CHF hit a record low....
It was a pretty quiet day in currency markets, in that we had mainly tepid movements in our majors. In the EUR/USD pair, slumped slightly as a result of Moody's downgraded the debt of Anglo Irish Bank, created some fresh concerns about sovereign debt worries. Late in the session , ... Leer más
Princeton's Paul Krugman wins Nobel in economics--
by Eric Quiñones · Posted October 13, 2008; 06:40 p.m.
Princeton economist Paul Krugman, acclaimed in his field for insights into international trade patterns that overturned longheld theories about the global economy before he rose to popular distinction as a media columnist and ... Leer más
According to a recent article in The Economist, "technology is spreading to emerging markets faster than it has ever done anywhere." The World Bank studied how long it took after the initial invention of a new technology for 80% of surveyed countries to report use. The result are that adoption ... Leer más
Is the mainstream finally catching on to the grassroots change possiblities of the internet? I must say, this recent article on the BusinessWeek web site isn't half bad. Here's a quote: The age when organizers can drum up support by sending an e-mail blast is giving way to a new ... Leer más
Ocho tendencias de la tecnología de negociosLa última edición del The McKinsey Quarterly, de hoy jueves 20 de diciembre de 2007, publica un extenso reporte acerca de las tendencias de las tecnologías de negocios. En lo que sigue, muestro solamente los párrafos más sustantivos de cada una de las ocho ... Leer más
Now we know why Ron Paul is smiling.UPDATE: See the YouTube video belowTrevor Lyman, a supporter of libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul, decided to help his preferred candidate raise money. He bought the domain ThisNovember5th.com, the purpose of which was to encourage people to make a small donation on that ... Leer más
Traditional social change orgs are beholden to rich people. Internet organizers aren't. On Wednesday I wrote a post about why grassroots digital activism is potentially more revolutionary than institution digital activism. My logic was based on a fuzzy proposition that institutions necessarily have "credibility, legitimacy, and resources" invested in the ... Leer más
Open it up, it's free... and here's why One of the basic tenets of anarchist thought is the gift economy, an economic system in which goods and services are given without any explicit agreement for a reciprocal gift of money, good or services from the receiver. Basically, in a ... Leer más