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Forbes magazine puts out an annual ranking of the best small companies in America. Most people are familiar with the Inc. 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing private companies in America. The Forbes rankings are more comprehensive and take many more factors into account. Forbes also includes publicily traded companies.
I definitely [...]

Business · Company Rankings · Forbes · Inc. 500 · Major Companies · Net worth · Privately held company · United States

I recently re-watched this excellent CNBC Original program on the origins of the current economic decline. House Of Cards explains how over-leveraged mortgages were propagated, how these mortgages were packaged by Wall Street and resold internationally, and finally how they led to the decline in real estate prices that caused an unprecedented world-wide credit crisis.
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Business · Due diligence · Financial services · Mortgage · Real estate · Refinancing · United States · Wall Street

A recent series of experiments conducted by Chen-Bo Zhong of the University of Toronto suggests that people with an option to treat someone fairly or to lie to a person and gain at that person’s expense choose to be more honest when instructed to trust their gut feelings instead of thinking the situation through rationally.
The [...]

Business · Economy · Financial services · Loan · Mortgage · Mortgage loan · United States · University of Toronto

I saw an article in Monday’s New York  Times about IBM launching a project to develop a method to sequence the human genome more affordably then ever before. The IBM researchers have a vision of personalized medicine consisting of treatments specifically tailored to an individuals genetic predispositions.
The highlight for the article for me was the [...]

Biology · Genetics · Human genome · IBM · John Markoff · New York Times · Technology · United States