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it comes to delivering the best financial and business news on the internet, it's hard to beat Forbes and Bloomberg. Their data and news come nicely packaged in the form of intriguing stories, accurate analysis, data, photos, and videos. As good as this all sounds, don't forget that the internet is a huge place. There are plenty of other ways to get your financial news online. Today, we are looking at ten of them. FORBES BLOOMBERG ALTERNATIVES: BUSINESS WEEK BusinessWeek.com is an entirely web-based

Source qualifications: One source that I am using is “The Economist”, which is a prestigious weekly newspaper. “The Economist” offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology. Another source is the world economic outlook update by the “IMF”. Reports by the “IMF” are qualified and trustworthy because it is an international organization, which oversees the international monetary and financial system and monitors the economic and

that has been part of an endless drawn out discussion, ever since the beginning of the crash, is whether big banks should be broken up in to smaller more manageable sized institutions. It is something that divides people, there are many differing opinions on how to handle the current financial situation we are surrounded by. Within this essay, some of the key points of view from both sides of the argument will be put forward, analysing both sides will lead the essay to conclude with whether banks

Garrett / CAUSES OF GLOBALIZATION COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES / August-September 2000 The most important causes of globalization differ among the three major components of international market integration: trade, multinational production, and international finance. The information technology revolution has made it very difficult for governments to control cross-border capital movements, even if they have political incentives to do so. Governments can still restrict the multinationalization of

Globalization is not a new phenomenon; there is an increasing occurrence in the adoption of methods and operations of businesses that allow a greater level of globalization. Theodore Levitt, an editor for the Harvard Business Review, popularized the term ‘Globalization’; he is widely credited with coining the term and bringing it into the mainstream business audience, mentioning it in an article entitled “Globalization of Markets” in the May-June 1983 issue of Harvard Business Review, due to this he

According to Silvio Berlusconi, he is the “best political leader in Europe and in the world.” There can be a difference in opinion regarding that statement, but the majority of Italian voters decided Berlusconi should be elected prime minister again in 2008. He is in the midst of his third term as prime minister of Italy; inheriting many challenges from his predecessor. During his time in office, addition problems arose. An analysis of Berlusconi’s government reveals three issues affecting Italy:

of mankind. It spreads knowledge and allows for rapid communication amongst untold numbers of people on a scale previously unimaginable. It has revolutionized countless aspects of the modern world, ranging from its effects on business practices and the economy to creating new forms of leisure activities and educational content. The multitude of ways the internet has affected the modern world is truly astonishing. Online social networking is a relatively recent phenomenon of the internet. Online

History of Globalization Estle Harlan Harlan Business Consultants Tim Rahschulte, Ph.D., Professor George Fox University Abstract The historical context of globalization covers centuries. This paper divides those centuries into three eras. The first era covers the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries and views globalization through the lens of individuals who struggled to overcome natural, governmental, religious and economic barriers in their quest for wealth, freedom, position, and power.

In December of 2010 the people of Tunisia, a country located in northern Africa, revolted against their oppressive ruler, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. What triggered this uprising was an “act of desperation,” the self-immolation of 26 year old Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian merchant (The Star). Bouazizi had been an unlicensed vegetable merchant for seven years before his cart was confiscated by a police officer who then “slapped the scrawny young man, spat in his face, and insulted his dead father,” (Abouzied)

importance of the fourth Geneva Convention stated, “We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend…And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard” (“President”). Today Americans face a new type of conflict, one that many consider as the fifth breed of warfare, and answers by the name cyber warfare (“Threat”). Peculiarly, cyber