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The Incredible Merge |
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According to numerous sources ranging from the New York Times and Reuters to Fortune magazine, one clear sign of renewed economic health in this country is the recent boom in mergers and acquisitions. Even the perpetually gloomy takeover lawyer, Martin Lipton, who once declared the virtual demise of M&A activity, recently announced that, we are in a burgeoning mergers and acquisitions boom. |
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On-Line Libraries, C |
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Nearly everyone would agree that today’s constant changes in technologies, work, and global markets require companies to hire well-educated employees and to train and retrain their workforces continually. But, until now, there have been at least three obstacles to lifelong learning: |
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The "Efficient Marke |
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The 밻fficient market hypothesis,?which Wall Street embraced for decades, holds that in a market where everyone has equal access to the same information, rational investors will set stock prices ?and the prices will reflect the generally understood information about the value of those stocks. No one has an unfair advantage ?and no one is supposed to be able to beat the market over the long term. This is the foundation upon which the $1 trillion index-fund industry rests. |
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Moving South |
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America is on the verge of a great migration that is affecting where people will live and how companies will profit. As futurist Dr. Jim Taylor points out in American Demographics, the U.S. has been the site of two previous major migrations. |
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The End of the "End |
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People who are spreading fear about the world running out of oil are either trying to distort the markets, or they fail to understand the underlying realities of the business that delivers gasoline to the pumps and petroleum products to nearly every niche in our modern economy. |
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