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Looking For A High-Tech Job? Try Cotton.

By Adam Davidson, Unemployment is still at 9 percent, leaving more than 12 million Americans without work. But there are […]

Private Company Markets, Many Opportunities With Many Caveats

From 247WallSt site, When you hear about shares of Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, LinkedIn, Zynga, Pandora, Yelp, and others selling on […]

Steve Austin Revisited – Part I

By Doug Hornig, Casey’s Daily,It was a novel idea back in the mid-1970s, when The Six Million Dollar Man hit the […]

Debt ceiling showdown

By David Greenlaw and Ted Wieseman,  Morgan Stanley, A statutory limit on the amount of federal government debt outstanding has […]

Troubled home market creates generation of renters

Derek Kravitz, AP Real Estate Writer, On Tuesday May 24, 2011, 3:44 pm EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A growing number […]

Get Ready for a New Home Construction Boom! Really

So soon after the rapture failed to materialize, I’m aware that the market for spectacularly good news might not be […]

Rent the Runway gets $15 million from KPCB

By Phil Wahba NEW YORK | Mon May 23, 2011 1:59pm EDT (Reuters) – Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & […]

Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings

From 247WallSt.com site, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed […]

AIA: Architecture Billings Index indicates declining demand in April

From CalculatedRisk site, Note: This index is a leading indicator for new Commercial Real Estate (CRE) investment. From Reuters: US […]

Home Sellers Provide Last-Resort Loans

Prashant Gopal, On Friday May 20, 2011, 8:08 am EDT Sue and Douglas Reed knew no bank would give them […]