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Muscle Cars Meet Green Technology

Posted by paulronan 1157 days ago, popular 1157 days ago (http://www.cbsnews.com)
Category: Green | Tags: green tech muscle cars
Is a Ford-450. It is 14,000 pounds of pure mean, green machine. Now, every big truck or car this self-taught 7th-grade drop-out from Wichita, Kan., w[...] read more »
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Is It Time to Buy That First House?

Posted by paulronan 1161 days ago, popular 1161 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: housing market
Five or 10 years from now, when the financial crisis has ended and housing prices are up smartly once more, we will look in the rearview mirror and r[...] read more »
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Ford Will Speed Green-Car Launches

Posted by paulronan 1165 days ago, popular 1164 days ago (http://online.wsj.com)
Category: Green | Tags: green tech
Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Alan Mulally plans to tell Congress he is accelerating his company's development of hybrid and electric vehicles and [...] read more »
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Green-collar workers on the rise

Posted by paulronan 1175 days ago, popular 1175 days ago (http://www.ajc.com)
Category: Green | Tags: green tech
Birkenstocks meet business suits. The “green” movement has moved beyond the Sierra Club to Wall Street. Fortune 500 corporations and small companies [...] read more »
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Savings as Part of the Job

Posted by paulronan 1179 days ago, popular 1179 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: personal finance
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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Green tech: the key to Detroit's survival

Posted by paulronan 1184 days ago, popular 1184 days ago (http://media.www.mustangdaily.net)
Category: Green | Tags: detroit green
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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Senators Press for Action to Stem Foreclosures

Posted by paulronan 1205 days ago, popular 1204 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: regulation
Senators prodded government officials involved in the bank-rescue plan to do more to help struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure and expressed impat[...] read more »
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Bob Metcalfe cheers global warming bubble

Posted by paulronan 1208 days ago, popular 1207 days ago (http://news.cnet.com)
Category: Green | Tags: green tech
Self-described "Internet tycoon" and venture capitalist Bob Metcalfe said that the world can solve global warming by transferring Silicon Valley-st[...] read more »
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Hong Kong Backs Its Banks

Posted by paulronan 1214 days ago, popular 1213 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Commodities | Tags: economic crisis
Hong Kong’s financial regulators announced on Tuesday that they would provide government backing for all of the territory’s $773 billion in bank depo[...] read more »
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Mutual funds vs. private money managers

Posted by paulronan 1215 days ago, popular 1214 days ago (http://money.cnn.com)
Category: Funds and ETFs | Tags: investing mutual funds
Good analysis of pros/cons of investing with private money managers or mutual funds. As could probably be expected, advises for a broad portfolio. read more »
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Spinning a Web of Lies at Digital Speed

Posted by paulronan 1215 days ago, popular 1215 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Economy | Tags: information
Examines how the internet is making it easy for lies and rumors to have significant impacts on global markets and investment trends. read more »
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