Executive pay still a mystery to investors - Financial Times

Miami Condos Go For A Song At Auction

U.S. New-Home Sales Slump More Than Forecast; Prices Drop Most Since 1970

Outsourcing Works So Well, India Is Exporting Jobs - NYT

S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index Falls 3.9% in July

Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take fright.

US Mortgage foreclosures at a record high.

Half of S&P 500 CEO paid more than $8 million. Yahoo CEO gets $71.7 million despite under performance.

Greenspan opposed sub-prime crackdown - Former Fed Governer

Fed sees housing damping growth longer than expected.

Big drop in home prices predicted - CNN/Money.

US home prices to drop in 2007, first since 30s.

Duke MBAs cheating scandal may be a national trend

Home sales plunge in March

The number of mortgage default notices sent to California homeowners last quarter rose to its highest in nearly 10 years.

Kenneth Heebner, manager of the top-performing real-estate fund over the past decade, says

U.S. home prices may plunge as much as 20 percent because of rising defaults on riskier mortgages.

The home mortgage crisis spirals, taking a toll in the U.S.

Home Sales in U.S. Tumble Most in 13 Years

More Californians at risk of losing homes - latimes.com

M.B.A.s are the Biggest Cheaters - Graduate business students take their cue from corporate scandals

Bernanke Says Housing in `Substantial Correction' - Bloomberg.com

cbs2.com - 4 Major California Home Markets See Drop In Prices

House prices show first annual fall in 11 years | Business News | Reuters.com

As the numbers keep getting worse, the housing industry feigns surprise and tries to put on a happy face. - Fool.com

Finally, The chief economist of the California Assn. of Realtors has stopped using the term "soft landing" to describe the state's real estate market, saying she no longer feels comfortable with that mild label!

Housing Expert: 'Soft Landing' Off Mark !

USATODAY.com - CEO pay soars in 2005 as a select group break the $100 million mark

Speaking truth or crying 'wolf'? - Predictions of housing collapse worth listening to - MarketWatch Article

Farewell, Condo Cash-Outs - New York Times

Economist says it is a Danger time for America

BRIC update + new growing countries by Goldman Sachs

Most Large Company CEOs Enjoy Gross-ups - - CFO.com

Home sales shifting into buyer's market -USATODAY.com -

Report: Survey, experts say housing market may have peaked - "The air is coming out of the balloons."

Malignant Design - Chomsky

STUDY: FALSIFIED DOCUMENTS HELPED PRECIPITATE VIETNAM WAR

Intel delays and slows dual-core Itanium | Channel Register

Indian call centres are like slave ships, says study : HindustanTimes.com

Telegraph | News | Secret MoD poll: Iraqis support attacks on British troops

ZNet |U.S. | The Truth About the Red Cross

It's Not up to the Court - Howad Zinn

The worldwide rise in house prices is the biggest bubble in history. Prepare for the economic pain when it pops - Economist

Warren Buffett remains bearish on the dollar

Bubble's New Home . Good review of Shiller's views on Housing.

Questions remain over Itaniums potential. Michael Dell said - "If I talked for three hours about what's important to our business I don't think I'd ever mention Itanium".

Of all the magazines, Forbes talks about The Golden Parachutes of CEOs !

Biharis are happier than Americans !

Mike Davis on Riding the Real-Estate Tsunami - TomDispatch.com

Job Market good ? Tech layoffs continue - says this SJMercury article.

Wayman's way big bonus - 3 mil for 3 months !

Say 'Golden Hello' to Mr Hurd !

ECONOMISTS ALARMED BY U.S. HOUSING MARKET'S PARALLELS WITH LAST DECADE'S STOCK BUBBLE

Executives Cash In, Regardless of Performance -washingtonpost.com

NYT article - The New York Times > National > Speculators Seeing Gold in a Boom in the Prices for Homes

Stock-market bull sees housing bubble

US Workers Voice Increasing Dissatisfaction With Jobs, Survey Says - Duh ?

Is it the last bear throwing in the towel ?

Yet more CEO pay indulgence : Report says top CEOs saw cash bonuses soar in '04

While on the topic of salary hikes, Indians took home heftiest hikes in 2004

The average salary of technology workers in the United States last year slipped to $67,800 from $69,600, a 2.6% decline according to this IT Salary Survey by dice.com

Warren Buffett sees no way but down for US dollar

According to this NYT article, India's Boom Spreads to Smaller Cities

Even Economist talks about the disconnect between Executive pay and performance .

California, U.S. in a Housing 'Bubble,' UCLA Forecast Says

The weak dollar – causes and consequences - Bill Gross , PIMCO

Housing experts say cash in now - Modbee.com

Is it a sign of things to come ? BBC reports -Call of India lures European workers

Despite all the noise about 2000 election issues, 2004 is still An Election Spoiled Rotten

American consumers and Chinese producers have led a global boom. China is creating genuine wealth, but America's binge is based partly on an illusion, according to this Economist article

CEO pay packages swelled across a wide array of U.S. industries in 2003 despite shrinking salaries for many workers, a report showed. Pay disparity up for CEOs and workers

As I suspected all along Job Cuts in Tech Sector Soar, Report Finds

Just when the news looks hopeless and gets bleaker and bleaker, The Optimism of Uncertainty by Howard Zinn gives a glimmer of hope.

I found out this Google reverse lookup

Readers rage over worst CEOs -- their bosses. And Carly figures prominently.

Jim Cramer's famous? speech about TheStreet.com: The Winners of the New World

Why Housing Is About to Go "Pop!" from BW online and couple of links to CEPR on housing bubble debate.

New details about the tactics Microsoft used to secure a dominant position in software markets for nearly two decades.
Newly Released Documents Shed Light on Microsoft Tactics

U.S. housing boom poised for a bust : Whether later this year or next, the real worry is will it just pop or slowly deflate?

This article from the Wall Street Journal questions whether Microsoft really innovates enough to justify the enormous amount of money (nearly 10% of the cost of every PC!) it takes from consumers each year. Hard drive and chip makers innovate constantly, but what about Microsoft?

Who Sank Itanic

Experts: Executive Pay Still Out of Control

Trying out BlogThis feature of Mozilla Firebird - Next Generation Browser

Now it's public ! I always thought Powerpoint does make you dumb !

Long pause in whatever little blogging I do, because of NSJ4.

Robert Shiller's research shows still there is irrational exuberance in US real estate market.

A list of Top 100 Corporate Criminals of the Decade from Corporate Crime Reporter.

Ballmer tells Microsoft employees that Linux poses tough challenge .

Microsoft will steeply discount or give away products to fight Linux.

Economist takes note of Linux.

In a survey of global economic dangers, the International Monetary Fund warned on Thursday that the U.S. housing market, after two years of record sales over and strong increases in home prices, could be headed for a fall.

According to this USAToday story, bubble hasn't burst yet on CEO salaries despite the times

Who supports war ? Not many people around the world, according to the surveys.

According to this Economist article, housing markets in several countries are looking decidedly bubbly .

Jim Rogers talks about the downward spiral of US Dollar and why it could lose its status as world reserve currency.

While thousands of HP employees were laid off and its earnings plunged into red for the year 2002, its ex-president Michael Capellas walked away with cool $26 million.

Despite the recent round of corporate scandals, US companies are continuing to promise their chief executives hefty severance payments and benefits.

Report - War alone won't boost economy

Report -
Silicon Valley Picture grim for job rebound

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