Category: Sector

Outsource Term Paper Grading to India ??? Already Happening

This fascinating little item in “The Choice,” the New York Times regular feature on different aspects of Higher Education,

Krugman in NYTimes Magazine: Building A Green Economy

In this full-length feature, our favorite economics columnist – except, of course, when it comes to China and currency values 😉 –

Murdoch Sets Up “Web Subscription” Scheme for Newspapers

News International, the British arm of News Corp., said two of its publications, The Times and The Sunday Times of London, would begin charging readers using its Web sites in June.

News International, the British arm of News Corp., said two of its publications, The Times and The Sunday Times of London, would begin charging readers using its Web sites in June.

Swiss Banks Mourn As US Tax Transparency Dramatically Increases

Gretchen Morgenson is one of our favorite financial writers on the New York Times, responsible – along with colleague Louise Story – for breaking those “hidden in plain sight” stories about Goldman Sachs’s various machinations with derivatives,

Legalize It ??? Pot As Cure for California Fiscal Disaster ???

Perhaps only in California could a group of marijuana smokers call themselves fiscal realists.

And yet, faced with a $20 billion deficit, strained state services and regular legislative paralysis, voters in California are now set to consider a single-word solution to help ease some of the state’s money troubles: legalize.

A Carbon Index for Financial Markets?

EconomyWatch.com reader and Worldwatch Institute (worldwatch.org) publisher from Brazil, Eduardo Athayde, has sent us this thought provoking piece: