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Online Rental Markets Are Thriving

Submitted by loner on 27 December, 2010 - 6:42am

Sites like RelayRides and Airbnb are in the vanguard of rental services for all manner of private property, from automobiles to power saws to spare bedrooms

This Rebel Came Armed With a Balance Sheet

Submitted by loner on 29 November, 2010 - 10:58am

 By JOHN STEELE GORDON

When most people think about the American Revolution, they think about the remarkable ideals that lay behind it and that guide the country still, or they think of the war itself, with Gen. Washington's men freezing and half-starved at Valley Forge.
What doesn't come to mind very often is how the Revolution was paid for. "Wars are fought with silver bullets," according to a Chinese saying, meaning that the side with the most money usually wins. But in the case of the Revolution, Great Britain—the richest country in Europe and the possessor of the most advanced financial system—lost despite its silver bullets. And it lost to a ragtag bunch of former colonies that didn't have a regular money supply, let alone a financial system. Nor did the rebels have the capacity to manufacture arms or gunpowder in any quantity.

In Quest for 'Legal High,' Chemists Outfox Law

Submitted by loner on 31 October, 2010 - 12:52pm
ANTWERP, Belgium—When the housing market crashed in 2008, David Llewellyn's construction business went with it.

Calypso Acquires CDO Platform Provider - February 26, 2009

Submitted by loner on 3 September, 2009 - 1:14pm

Calypso Technology, a multi-asset-class trading and risk management software company, has purchased Codefarm, whose flagship Galapagos platform allows for the construction and management of collateralized debt obligation (CDO) portfolios. Terms of the deal, announced today, were not disclosed.

Deregulation and its trail of destruction

Submitted by loner on 1 May, 2009 - 9:28pm

When I was a child growing up in England in the 1960s, my mother's dream for me was that I would become a bank clerk, with ambitions to be a bank manager, the epitome of all that was best in the world, safe, reliable, honest, looking after people's hard-earned savings, helping business and the world to grow. A bank manager could countersign your passport application, that's how trusted he was.

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