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Technology and Environmental Leaders Unite to Call for National Strategy on Economy, Energy and Environment

Technology and environmental leaders today announced a new initiative to develop a national strategy for information and communications technologies [...] read more »
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Lawmakers Told More Is Needed to Aid Economy

Top financial officials warned Congress on Tuesday that the economy continued to need urgent attention, with the credit markets remaining tight, mill[...] read more »
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How many jobs depend on the big three?

Pretty interesting statistics!! read more »
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Bad weather blues for GM Ford and Chrysler

The debate raging in the US at the moment about the ‘to do or not to do’ bail-out of the auto industry, nice article on the topic in the NY Times, is[...] read more »
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The minefield of pricing decisions - part one

Determining the pricing for your product and service is not as easy as one might think. There are many things to consider. The first one, in this ser[...] read more »
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Buy Term and Invest the Difference: Dave Ramsey on Life Insurance

Dave Ramsey and other BTID proponents make the case that traditional Whole Life insurance is "one of the worst products that the middle class buys"[...] read more »
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Savings as Part of the Job

With the economy in a downturn, corporate travel managers are using strategies from other frugal eras to save money — pushing advance purchases of ai[...] read more »
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Is new Bond movie antitech?

Among the many other problems with the latest James Bond film Quantum of Solace, I was particularly struck with its seemingly careless stance on (gre[...] read more »
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Business leaders urge government to increase green R&D tenfold

The government must increase its annual investment in low carbon technologies tenfold from £250m to £2.5bn if the UK is to meet its climate change ta[...] read more »
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Dodd Says Auto Bailout Lacks Votes in Senate

The chairman of the Senate banking committee said on Thursday that he did not believe there would be enough Republican support for efforts to aid flo[...] read more »
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QVC layoffs make us wonder what the hell all their employees do

Low-quality TV shopping channel QVC is laying off nearly 1,000 members of its staff out of a total 14,000. read more »
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Bush Gets It Right: Intervention Not a “Cure-all”

There have been many days where I’ve questioned the actions of President Bush in regards to the economic crisis, but today he got it right. read more »
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Never Mind A New Economic Stimulus Package - Save Yourself!

12 ways to take control of your finances rather than hoping for an economic stimulus check to be approved. read more »
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Green tech: the key to Detroit's survival

In the early 1900s, workers flocked to Detroit for the promise of 'the good life' that automobile manufacturing plants could offer. Today, one out [...] read more »
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Dow Down 411 on Investor Worries

Shares on Wall Street tumbled more than 4 percent on Wednesday as frightened investors wondered how long the economic slowdown will last, how deep it[...] read more »
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