With a just-out reporting predicting $1,600-an-ounce gold prices, and another report from the World Gold Council due next week, it might be a good time to prospect for some local business and consumer angles related to the in-demand precious metal. As this CNBC.com article reports, the U.K.-based consultancy GFMS is out with its 2011 gold [...]
Nathaniel Popper, the New York correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, wrote about the collapse of Harry & David last year, prompting comments from readers about their own employment horror stories. He even got complaints about Ikea, one of my favorite destinations for decorating ideas, fun kids’ stuff and indoor exercise during the cold Midwest [...]
St. Petersburg Times business reporter Jeff Harrington has watched the already-quirky state of Florida ride through a wild economic decade, ending as one of the country’s biggest casualties of the housing bubble. He has been with the Times since 1998 after stints in Chicago, Toledo and Cincinnati. In 2003, he won a Gerald Loeb award [...]
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Duff McDonald, contributing editor for Fortune, scored a candid interview with Neil Barofsky, the former special inspector general overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) for banks. You don’t get stuff like this by sticking to a script: “Neil Barofsky has been chasing bad guys for much of his professional career. Whether it was as [...]
As President Obama prepares to make public his budget ideas on Wednesday, health care funding will be at center stage again following the new GOP proposals related to Medicare and Medicaid. Any changes to entitlement programs are hot topics to readers; this might be a good opportunity it take a look at companies and care [...]
If there were ever a time that business journalists should focus on the title insurance industry, it’s now. It’s been about a year since a federal law has required lenders to give homeowners accurate estimates for closing costs, including title insurance, early in the buying process. Several state governments are scrutinizing their regulations on how [...]
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As a part-time professor and reporter who relied on academic sources for unbiased information, I was shocked when I read Neil Parmar’s piece in SmartMoney about conflicts within investing research. But I guess I shouldn’t have been. With so much talk about conflicts of interest in the medical and pharmaceutical research areas, Neil and his [...]
