Also in Merkel's response to the S&P downgrades comes this chilling idea: She says she will consider legislation to bar institutional investors such as insurance companies from selling bonds when ratings are downgraded, or fell below investment grade. If banning short sales doesn't work, why not step it up a notch and ban selling altogether? [View news story]
So what she is saying is that the large institutional investors that world governments (a.k.a taxpayers) spend billions bailing out, in part because they bought risky investments, should be forced to hold risky investments.
Dealing With Debt: What Investors Should Expect [View article]
So what your saying is "There is no free lunch" here. Whatever we do is going to exact a 'price'. That being the case, shouldn't we just pick a course of action and get on with it, since the 'price' is increasing over time.
Fed Open Market Committee: No real surprises as the panel says it's "prepared" to ease if necessary, due to worries about deflation. No change to near-zero interest rate policy or in plans to keep rates low for an "extended period." Hawkish Hoenig stands as the lone dissenter again. [View news story]
What exactly can they do anyway. Nothing up to now has been effective.
Is AT&T Stranded Alone on the Data Cap Island? [View article]
keep in mind that Clearwire competes with DSL/Cable as much as or more than wireless so they wouldn't change pricing until those competitors are willing to.
Salesforce.com's Outage: Will It Derail the SaaS Market? [View article]
I am an application/system administrator for a medium sized company, and we apply a large amount of resourced to ensuring uptime, but we still experience outages from time to time. So to believe that this is a disadvantage to cloud computing is a bit one-sided. In the long run downtime is a wash between internal and external apps.
Also in Merkel's response to the S&P downgrades comes this chilling idea: She says she will consider legislation to bar institutional investors such as insurance companies from selling bonds when ratings are downgraded, or fell below investment grade. If banning short sales doesn't work, why not step it up a notch and ban selling altogether? [View news story]
Arable Farmland And The Case For Agriculture [View article]
Dealing With Debt: What Investors Should Expect [View article]
Fed Open Market Committee: No real surprises as the panel says it's "prepared" to ease if necessary, due to worries about deflation. No change to near-zero interest rate policy or in plans to keep rates low for an "extended period." Hawkish Hoenig stands as the lone dissenter again. [View news story]
Is AT&T Stranded Alone on the Data Cap Island? [View article]
Amazon Losing the E-Book Battle: Content vs. Distribution [View article]
Salesforce.com's Outage: Will It Derail the SaaS Market? [View article]