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Getting a Handle on the Outsourcing Discussion

We use “outsourcing” to mean so many things that there is no way it can really be true or practical for all of them. This one term is used in reference to such widely disparate activities as accessing lower-cost labor in Asia and having a Fortune 100 company run your data centers for you. Is [...]

Sometimes, You Can Fight City Hall

In this post from last fall, I wrote about the efforts under way by members of the business community to fight changes proposed by the SEC to the regulations governing money market funds. The changes would have restricted the funds from holding commercial paper from A2/P2 issuers, such as companies like Alcoa, Inc. and Marriott [...]

GLOBAL MARKET BRACE FOR THE AFTERSHOCK

Just as the mood was lifting worldwide—and many markets had returned to their pre-Lehman Brothers bankruptcy highs—a new risk has reared its head. While the focus for much of the financial crisis has been on banks and corporate, investors have belatedly noticed the huge hazards that have built up at country level. The world has [...]

A NEW CAPITALIST ORDER

In the fall of 2008, the global economy was on the brink of a meltdown. It was in freefall. Having seen so many other crises, I was sure that this sense of freefall would soon come to an end. It happens with every crisis. But what then? We neither can nor should return to the [...]