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Ukraine + Russia Peace Reconstruction Effort Groups
GM's (General Motors) safety practices before and after bankruptcy
04/19/2014
Grouped Articles
Sending Alerts Instead, G.M. Delayed Car Recalls
New York Times 04/19/2014
Investing for 2014- strategies and prospects
04/19/2014
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/19/2014
Barry Ritholtz: Time, not timing, is key to investing success - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/25/2014
Are Stock Prices Headed for a Fall?
Wall Street Journal 08/28/2014
A Foreign Affair Can Benefit Stock Investors
Wall Street Journal 11/22/2014
16 Rules for Investors to Live By
Wall Street Journal 12/06/2014
Advice After Stock Market Drop: Take Some Deep Breaths, and Don’t Do a Thing
New York Times 08/21/2015
Advice to young peope for career selection, career planning, job interviews, and career development
04/19/2014
Grouped Articles
How to Get a Job at Google, Part 2
New York Times 04/19/2014
Good practices for hiring, interviewing and selection in Human Resource departments
04/19/2014
Grouped Articles
How to Get a Job at Google, Part 2
New York Times 04/19/2014
German public opinion on Russia and the Ukraine crisis
04/18/2014
Grouped Articles
Twin Shocks Shake Foundation of German Power
New York Times 04/18/2014
New York Times 05/05/2014
Germany's Wolfgang Schäuble: Prepared to Raise Pressure on Russia
Wall Street Journal 05/24/2014
Merkel Seeks to Defuse Ukraine Crisis as Convoy Returns to Russia
Wall Street Journal 08/23/2014
Making Merkel Wait, Finding Time for Truffles
New York Times 10/17/2014
In Reversal, Germany Cools to Russian Investment
New York Times 12/28/2014
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena stock offering in 2014
04/18/2014
Grouped Articles
Italian Bank Proposes Increased Stock Offering
New York Times 04/18/2014
Monte dei Paschi Raises Cash Call
Wall Street Journal 04/19/2014
Monte dei Paschi di Siena’s Former Executives Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison
New York Times 10/31/2014
Siena Tries to Regain Its Financial Footing, and Its Identity
New York Times 06/15/2015
U.S. Federal Reserve Beige Book Survey in April 2014
04/17/2014
Grouped Articles
Economy Thawing Out, but Pockets of Weakness Remain
Wall Street Journal 04/17/2014
Wal-mart and banking services
04/17/2014
Grouped Articles
Wal-Mart Undercuts Rivals With New U.S. Money Transfer Service
Wall Street Journal 04/18/2014
Walmart Will Enter Cash Wiring Business
New York Times 04/17/2014
Official report in 2014 after 7 year survey shows 19.4% of arable land in China is polluted
04/17/2014
Land contaminated after years of lax enforcement and poor pollution controls with rapid industrialization in China.
Grouped Articles
China Details Vast Extent of Soil Pollution
Wall Street Journal 04/18/2014
One-Fifth of China’s Farmland Is Polluted, State Study Finds
New York Times 04/17/2014
In China, Beijing Fights Losing Battle to Rein In Factory Production
Wall Street Journal 07/16/2014
Chinese Steel Expert- N Way Out for Mills Caught in Crackdown
Wall Street Journal 07/16/2014
In China’s Coal Country, a Ban Brings Blue Skies and Cold Homes
The New York Times 02/10/2018
The influence of Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's style and pluralism on a generation of Chinese authors after the Cultural Revolution
04/17/2014
A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman in Beijing praises the author and his books which had an influence on many people in China, giving them "a new spirit" after the stifling of culture and personal expression under the Cultural Revolution.
Grouped Articles
China Mourns Gabriel Garcia Marquez: ‘A Kind of Spirit’ Authors Should Learn From
Wall Street Journal 04/18/2014
The Work of Gabriel García Márquez
New York Times 04/17/2014
A Gabriel García Márquez Sampler
New York Times 04/18/2014
Yellen and Krueger on low short term unemployment pushing inflation up when long term unemployment is high
04/16/2014
Yellen's position is that it is premature to assume low short term unemployment at a time of high long tem unemployment will lead to increasing inflation. Krueger's research shows that this can happen. Yellen prefers to go by a range of indicators and look at the overall picture of evidence from economic trends including deflationary trends in Europe, low inflation and low wage pressures in the U.S. with slack in the economy.
Grouped Articles
Yellen’s Not on Team Krueger When it Comes to Inflation and the Unemployed
Wall Street Journal 04/16/2014
Yellen Says Job Weakness Forestalls Raising Rates
New York Times 04/16/2014
Hiring Is Strong and Jobless Rate Declines to 6.1%
New York Times 07/03/2014
WSJ's Hilsenrath: Fed Can Be Patient on Rate-Hike Debate After Data
Wall Street Journal 08/02/2014
Yellen Goes on Road to Investigate Health of the Jobs Market
New York Times 10/16/2014
Yellen's speech and Q&A with Feldstein at the New York Economic Club, May 16, 2014
04/16/2014
Grouped Articles
Yellen Stakes Out a Flexible Policy Path
Wall Street Journal 04/17/2014
Yellen Says Job Weakness Forestalls Raising Rates
New York Times 04/16/2014
WSJ's Hilsenrath: Fed Can Be Patient on Rate-Hike Debate After Data
Wall Street Journal 08/02/2014
Recognizing Bubbles But Still Cautious About Deflating Them
New York Times 09/10/2014
Fed Plots Cautious Course on Rate Rises
Wall Street Journal 09/18/2014
J&J's Olysio drug for Hepatitis C
04/16/2014
Grouped Articles
Sales of Johnson & Johnson's New Hepatitis C Drug Soar
Wall Street Journal 04/16/2014
J&J’s Earnings Jump on Higher Drug Sales
Wall Street Journal 10/15/2014
AbbVie Pins Hopes on Hepatitis C Treatment
Wall Street Journal 12/18/2014
Slovakia and tax revenues
04/19/2014
Grouped Articles
In Slovakia, Real Lottery Prize Goes to Tax Man
New York Times 04/19/14
Investing carefully- ways to detect bubbles in stock prices, real estate and using caution
04/19/2014
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/19/14
Barry Ritholtz: Time, not timing, is key to investing success - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/25/14
Are Stock Prices Headed for a Fall?
Wall Street Journal 08/28/14
Lessons From Fund Managers in Their 70s, 80s
Wall Street Journal 01/06/15
Google's Laszlo Bock on hiring at Google, how young people should prepare for a career, and how to present yourself in an interview
04/19/2014
Grouped Articles
How to Get a Job at Google, Part 2
New York Times 04/19/14
Wall Street Journal 04/07/15
Amit Singh of Google for Work: A Respectful Clash of Ideas
New York Times 01/22/16
Italy's Renzi government's 2014 tax cuts of 10 billion euros with about $1000 annually going to middle and lower income households
04/19/2014
Efforts to stimulate consumer spending and provide relief to cash strapped households in Italy.
Grouped Articles
Italy Cuts Income Taxes in Effort to Boost Economy
Wall Street Journal 04/19/14
Wall Street Journal 05/27/14
Matteo Renzi Needs to Look Out for Italy First
Wall Street Journal 07/07/14
Merkel Hints at Economic Policy Shift in Germany
New York Times 10/09/14
EU Won’t Reject French, Italian Budgets
Wall Street Journal 10/28/14
Paul J. Taubman, the sole practitioner firm in M&A, advisor to Verizon Wireless and Comcast
04/18/2014
Taubman spent 30 years, his entire career at Morgan Stanley, before leaving to start his own firm- almost by accident when Verizon Wireless asked him to be advisor on the Vodafone deal.
Grouped Articles
Goldman, Citi, UBS ... and a Guy in an Office
New York Times 04/18/14
Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez
04/17/2014
Grouped Articles
The Work of Gabriel García Márquez
New York Times 04/17/14
A Gabriel García Márquez Sampler
New York Times 04/18/14
U.S. Federal Reserve Beige Book Surveys of 12 Bank districts in 2014
04/17/2014
Grouped Articles
Economy Thawing Out, but Pockets of Weakness Remain
Wall Street Journal 04/17/14
Demand for Skilled Workers Beginning to Percolate, Fed Survey Says
Wall Street Journal 06/05/14
Matthew Gentzkow, winner of the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economics Association
04/17/2014
Gentzkow wins the medal for work at the intersection of politics, economics and big data. His 2010 paper with Shapiro explored the effects of political slant in media articles for economic issues and foud that the readers perceptions and preferences played a bigger part than the bias of the news source itself. For the first time politics, sociology and other disciplines are becoming part of groundbreaking research in the field.
Grouped Articles
Economist Honored for Work on Media Slant
Wall Street Journal 04/18/14
University of Chicago Economist Who Studies Media Receives Clark Medal
New York Times 04/17/14
Google performance 2014-2015
04/17/2014
Grouped Articles
Google's Earnings Grounded by Rising Costs
Wall Street Journal 04/17/14
Rising Costs Erode Google Profits
Wall Street Journal 04/17/14
Amid Stratospheric Valuations, Google Unearths a Deal With Skybox
Wall Street Journal 06/16/14
As Google Builds Out Own Content, Some Advertisers Feel Pushed Aside
Wall Street Journal 08/19/14
Google’s Results Disappoint on Slowdown in Paid Clicks
Wall Street Journal 10/17/14
Overheard: Google’s Sticker Shock
Wall Street Journal 10/17/14
Yahoo's Board of Directors and changes in 2014-2016- Fund Starboard Value pushes for changes
04/17/2014
Grouped Articles
Yahoo CEO Aims to Bring Back Co-Founder
Wall Street Journal 04/17/14
Wall Street Journal 12/03/15
Yahoo Struggles as an Afterthought to Advertisers
New York Times 12/02/15
Yahoo’s Course Is Less Certain
Wall Street Journal 12/10/15
Yahoo: This Time It’s Personal
Wall Street Journal 01/07/16
Starboard Value Calls for Shake-Up at Yahoo and Shift in Strategy
New York Times 01/06/16
Facebook's strategies in 2014 to move beyond social media
04/16/2014
Grouped Articles
The Future of Facebook May Not Say ‘Facebook’
New York Times 04/16/14
Facebook Results Surge as Ad Revenue Keeps Climbing
Wall Street Journal 04/24/14
Facebook Advertises Its Strength
Wall Street Journal 04/24/14
Facebook’s Spending Weighs on Profits
Wall Street Journal 04/22/15
VMware and disruptions in technolgy
04/16/2014
Grouped Articles
To Build Cloud-Services, Some Companies Adopt OpenStack
Wall Street Journal 04/16/14
VMware Moves to Defuse Software Threats, Plans Hardware
Wall Street Journal 08/26/14
Why Dell’s EMC Bid Leaves VMware Looking Like Devalued Currency
Wall Street Journal 10/13/15
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