Capitalist

Source: articles.moneycentral.msn.com --- 8 hours ago
Legacy Venture named Alan Marty, who was formerly venture Capitalist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as its new managing partner. ...

Source: www.nytimes.com --- 10 days ago
“All Eyes and Ears” is an interesting but overstuffed new play. ...

Source: blogs.wsj.com --- 7 days ago
A roundup of economic news from around the Web. Crises of Capitalism: Writing for the Financial Times, Samuel Brittan looks at how booms and busts have been features of capitalism since the beginning. “The beginning of wisdom is to recognize that financial booms and busts have been a feature of capitalism from the very start. Indeed [...] ...

Source: twcrossroadsdiscussionforum.yuku.com --- 4 days ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/world/asia/24china.html?ref=world ...

Source: www.ft.com --- 13 days ago
More than 31,000 followers have travelled from around the US to hear Berkshire Hathaway's legendary boss, Warren Buffett, riff on everything from bond insurance to US energy policy at the company's annual meeting in Omaha ...

Source: cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil --- 45 days ago
Link to full record ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 34 days ago
HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania should make wholesale changes to its request for federal approval to add tolls to I-80 and pursue a private lease for the Pennsylvania Turnpike, according to a study released yesterday. ...

Source: www.philly.com --- 19 days ago
Of all the hundreds of people who contributed to the attempt to restore the vision of three blind patients at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, perhaps none has so personal a connection as venture Capitalist Gordon Gund. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 34 days ago
Workers World Online Apr 12 2008 3:07PM GMT ...

Source: deadspin.com --- 18 hours ago
We hadn't checked in on Kige in a while, but man ... that dude has TOTALLY sold out. We should hire body language expert Janine Driver to analyze this video. ...

Source: upcoming.yahoo.com --- 11 days ago
Speaker: Feng Deng, General Partner, Northern Light Venture Capital Feng’s glories started when he picked up a book called “Fire In Valley: The Making Of The Personal Computer”, which awakened his entrepreneur spirit. Netscreen, the company that he co-founded in 1997, had tremendous growth. With less than 6 years, it became the third largest network security company in the world. In 2004, Juniper Network acquired the company for a whopping $4 billion, which is the biggest deal in Juniper history. After becoming one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, Feng is taking his next challenge to bring Chinese entrepreneurs to the world as a successful venture Capitalist. In 2005, he co-founded Northern Light Venture Capital. Its portfolio includes Nasdaq companies, such as Aciton Semiconductor and Spreadtrum Communications, and the No. 1 dating site in China -- baihe.com. We are honored to have Feng share his glories and his perspective on both entrepreneurial and VC investment opportunities and challenges in China, one of the biggest emerging markets. The event will be offered with free admission. However seats are limited and pre-registration is required. Date & Time: 1:30PM – 5:00PM, Saturday, May 10th, 2008 Venue: Fenwick & West, 801 California Street, Mountain View, California 94041 Google Map Agenda: 1:30PM – 2:00PM Registration and Networking 2:00PM – 4:00PM Speech by Feng Deng 4:00PM – 5:00PM Q&A Biography of ...

Source: www.xxlmag.com --- 36 days ago
The ad deal is the new record deal. ...

Source: cashflow.blogs.foxbusiness.com --- 2 hours ago
Well, well, well. At a time when most CEOs are dreading their own annual shareholder meetings (remember our Liz McDonald reporting that security guards were checking Citi shareholders’ bags for fruit in case they’d try to throw it at the meeting?!!), Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) is throwing his massive, annual party under [...] ...

Source: www.centredaily.com --- 24 days ago
A retired venture Capitalist from the Philadelphia suburbs was leading a four-way race for the Democratic nomination for state treasurer with about half the votes counted Tuesday. ...

Source: www.clusterflock.org --- 21 days ago
The goons at the Lomographic Society International—the people who brought the world the $20 Holga for $70 and monopolistic control over the distribution of the Lomo LC-A camera—have now added Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day to the list of products and events they had nothing to do with creating that they’ve claimed as their own. The [...] ...

Source: www.getrichslowly.org --- 27 days ago
Here’s a short-film produced by General Motors in 1939 called “Round & Round”. It’s a brief look at the free market system. It feels like it was produced for first-graders: This is a factory. This is a machine in the factory. This is the workman who tends the machine in the factory. And this is what [...] ...

Source: pacificfreepress.com --- 36 days ago
Sink or Swim in the Capitalist ocean by William Bowles When a group of so-called Aboriginals from I believe Borneo (or maybe... ...

Source: www.anarkismo.net --- 23 days ago
Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction This is the first part of a series of articles investigating the Capitalist financial markets from a critical perspective. With such a large topic it is tricky finding a route into the subject and a plan of enquiry. The chosen road is to start with a look at the financial markets, particularly focusing on the mechanics of some of the instruments that have led to a momentous transformation of the workings of global financial markets in the most recent decades. ... ...

Source: dealbreaker.com --- 24 days ago
Count on Bloomberg to give Congress a financial literacy quiz. Of course, also count on Bloomberg to slant so severely in the direction of fiscal conservatism so as to dull its credibility to near-zero figures. Still, occasionally we get a half-way amusing passage out of the piece. 8. The purpose of the tax code is: a) To empower astute government bureaucrats to pick economic winners and losers. (For a history of recent picks, see ethanol subsidies, which contributed to food shortages, hundreds of millions of dollars in food aid for developing countries and an increase in greenhouse gases.) b) To ensure full employment for lobbyists; c) To encourage ``good'' behavior, such as homeownership, and discourage ``bad'' behavior, including smoking and drinking. d) To create enough lucre to pay for the 11,610 pork-barrel projects in fiscal 2008, the second highest ever and a 337 percent increase from 2007, according to Citizens Against Government Waste, a private, non-profit group dedicated to eliminating waste in the federal government. This is after ``Congress adopted earmark reforms last year,'' the CAGW says. A Financial Literacy Quiz for Congress [Bloomberg] ...

Source: www.tribunemagazine.co.uk --- 33 days ago
FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY: Michael Meacher sees the whole neo-liberal economic agenda beginning to unravel ...