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September 2012

The Skype Killers of Belarus

By Brett Forrest, From www.BusinessWeek.com, Living in a dictatorship has its advantages. You don’t need to stay up all night […]

Netanyahu To Obama: ‘Wait For What? Wait Until When?’

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making it clear that Israel will not wait to take out Iranian […]

The Fed Panicked

This article originally appeared on The Daily Capitalist. Here is the Fed Open Market Committee’s announcement of November 25, 2008 […]

Social Impact Bonds

A social impact bond (SIB) is a debt instrument that directly links its yield with a social outcome or series […]

Currency Market

The global foreign exchange (forex) market is the largest financial market in the world, and its size and liquidity ensure […]

Investors make $77M bet that a startup can solve the student debt crisis

By Christina Farr, http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/11/sofi/ A startup known as Social Finance has raised a sky-high $77.2 million in venture financing to bring its new lending […]

The Winds of Market Change

From http://us.beyondbullsandbears.com/2012/09/10/the-winds-of-market-change/,  Franklin Templeton Investments site, As we cross the mid-way point of the year, you might say the equity […]

Australia’s Victoria Opens $6M IT Lab

(IBT) A new state-of-the-art $6 million IT laboratory has been launched in Hawthorn East in Victoria, Australia which science experts […]

Rebalance the China Economy

I posted my old research piece – rebalance the China economy, which was written in 2010.  When I read the […]

China Surpasses U.S. in Smartphone Volume

The American media and consumer electronics research groups tend to focus on the state of the smartphone market in the […]