MARCH 19, 2011 Into the time machine to see how a major company coped with its black swans By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. The following memo was unearthed as part of the litigation, now entering its 50th year, over the Great Japan Nuclear Incident of 2011. Addressed to General Electric’s then-CEO Jeff Immelt, the memo […]
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MARCH 15, 2011 Banking’s Scourge on Charm Offensive By VICTORIA MCGRANE And MAYA JACKSON RANDALL Elizabeth Warren has earned a reputation as the scourge of the financial industry. Banks used “tricks and traps” to carry out a “massive looting from middle-class families,” the Harvard professor and consumer advocate has said. She slammed Wall Street chiefs
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FEBRUARY 25, 2011 The average American factory worker today is responsible for more than $180,000 of annual output, triple the $60,000 in 1972. By MARK J. PERRYMr. Perry, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan, Flint, is also a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Is American manufacturing dead? You might think
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FEBRUARY 22, 2011, 11:56 P.M. ET Arab Unrest Stuns Markets Oil Soars, Stocks Fall as Libyan Rebels Take Energy Zone; Shipments Are Halted By LIAM PLEVEN, JONATHAN CHENG And GUY CHAZAN Libya’s descent into violence rattled global financial markets Tuesday, sending oil prices surging to their biggest gain in more than two years and driving
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Thomas Sowell: New Heroes vs. Old Thomas Sowell 2011-01-26 14:27:31 When I mention that my family used kerosene lamps when I was a small child in the South during the 1930s, that is usually taken as a sign of our poverty, though I never thought of us as poor at the time. What is ironic
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——————————————————————————– Carolina Journal Exclusives Hard to Reproduce Game Plan of RTP Founders Unique confluence of time and place made RTP possible By Jay Schalin February 10, 2011 RALEIGH — Perhaps North Carolina’s history should be dated “B.T.” and “A.T.” — Before the Triangle and After the Triangle. In the early 1950s, when Research Triangle Park
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FEBRUARY 5, 2011 Listening to the Shale Revolution Often the only ‘reform’ needed is a plan to remove obstacles to innovation. By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. With turmoil in the Middle East comes the inevitable spike in oil prices, topping $90 this week. Look for energy security to make one of its recurrent runs to
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February 4, 2011 Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere By Victor Davis Hanson The 2008 financial crash originated with a housing bubble. Not long ago, the cheap money policies of the Federal Reserve, the infusion of trillions of dollars in new foreign investment, and the misguided policies of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae all conspired to extend to
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