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a weak euro is bad news for the U.S <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1990788,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1990788,00.html</a>
Don't expect the euro to reverse course anytime soon.
so-called PIIGS. Fears raged about a domino-like series of debt defaults that would cast Europe back into recession.
The research firm Capital Economics predicts that the euro will reach par with the U.S. dollar by the end of next year
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/
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"The fact is, Europe deserves a weaker currency. Problem is, the rest of the world doesn't."
- What It Would Take to Recover the Weakening Euro - TIME (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
2010年5月21日 星期五
Building Business with E-mail Newsletters
Give Your Readers Useful Information
A newsletter should follow the basic rules of good conversational form. If you were meeting face-to-face with one of your newsletter’s recipients, would you use that opportunity to tell him/her about the benefits your business/product provide (including sponsorships, partnerships, etc.), or just brag about how great you are? If you involve your readers by offering solutions that can make them more efficient, successful or leadingedge, they’ll want to know more and welcome future newsletters. At the same time, convey a sense of urgency to act upon the information your readers are being given. The most effective newscasters create the impression that the information they’re delivering is absolutely essential to the well-being of their audience. Do likewise with your newsletter.
Build Community
The recipients of your newsletter want to feel that they’re members of a select group who are getting privileged information, which will help them keep ahead of the curve or gain a competitive advantage. Address that unspoken need by establishing your newsletter as this group’s definitive “voice.” Establish an identity with a specific point of view, and reinforce it throughout. Including such elements as a regular expert’s column, meet-the customer profile and other similar items will connect members of your target market with each other and with your company.
http://www.evokad.com/
"In addition, include a brief survey in your newsletter on a quarterly basis. This will deliver insight into your readers’ interests and help you further personalize your message. Keep the survey short (10 questions, maximum) to overcome the reader’s resistance to respond. The more you can tailor your newsletter to each recipient, the better chance you have of getting or keeping that person or business as a customer."
- Building Business with E-mail Newsletters | Evok Orlando Advertising Agency | Orlando Marketing (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
Global Stocks Keep Sliding Amid EU Debt Crisis
"The danger is that the fear becomes self-fulfilling and disrupts the real economy and derails what's been a stronger than expected global economic recovery," said David Cohen, an economist with Action Economics in Singapore.
"The 2008 crisis in the U.S. showed how damaging it can be when investors become so fearful of counterparty risk, they simply flee to the safety of Treasurys," he said.
"Investors fear debt problems in countries like Greece and Portugal will spill over to other countries in Europe. That could then trigger a cascade of losses for big banks and in turn halt economic recovery in the U.S. and elsewhere."
- Global Stocks Keep Sliding Amid EU Debt Crisis - CBS News (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
2010年5月20日 星期四
Gold rally not going away until bailout money disappears
Gold has long been a safe haven when world markets are gripped by fear.
Gold is also attractive during times of currency devaluation.
"Can gold prices fall? Of course they can. Traders believe a combination of market calm, stock rallies, bond market clarity, and most importantly, a lasting fix to the world's mass reliance on free money to keep its economies afloat will send prices tumbling.While there's plenty of reason to believe that gold's dramatic run can't go on forever, for now, it seems a bad time to bet that the rally will soon come to a screeching halt."
- Gold rally's not going away until bailout money disappears - May. 13, 2010 (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
in a "naked" short sale, the short seller makes the deal without ever having access to the securities to begin with.
"It's a standard part of how markets operate. It's how they bring negative information to bear in the markets," Musto said. "When someone starts trying to restrict it, it seems like an act of desperation."
Throughout history, regulators have cracked down on short selling after a period of economic declines. In the U.S., at the the height of the financial crisis in September 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission temporarily banned investors from short-selling 799 financial companies.
The term "short sale" refers to a type of bet investors can make in the financial markets when they believe a stock or bond will fall. It becomes "naked" when the seller makes the bet without having the goods to back it up.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/
""It's a standard part of how markets operate. It's how they bring negative information to bear in the markets," Musto said. "When someone starts trying to restrict it, it seems like an act of desperation.""
- What is naked short selling? - May. 19, 2010 (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
"More than ever, our customers are living paycheck to paycheck,"
"More than ever, our customers are living paycheck to paycheck,"
The problem is that both the economy and consumer sentiment remain shaky.
there are also more structural concerns that could affect the durability of the US recovery:about 40% of all spending currently comes from the 20% of households with the highest incomes.
Americans are going to need more than confidence to get moving. They are going to need more work and more money.
customers can't afford the gas to get to the stores and that they're increasingly using food stamps when they get there, things are bad.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/
"customers can't afford the gas to get to the stores and that they're increasingly using food stamps when they get there, things are bad."
- Wal-Mart sales suggest the economy is still shaky - May. 20, 2010 (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
arts and culture is mightier than the sword
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Muslim rocker Salman Ahmad says music can fight intolerance
* "Anyone who says music is un-Islamic is a poser," he says
* Influenced by both Led Zeppelin and Sufi poetry, he's sold 30 million albums
* His mentor played with Peter Gabriel, while he's collaborated wth Melissa Etheridge
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/
""My own personal narrative tells me that arts and culture is mightier than the sword," he told CNN during a tour of the United Kingdom Thursday."
- Pakistani Muslim rocks against extremism - CNN.com (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
2010年5月19日 星期三
The real reason for the drop: stabilization in other markets
it costs miners about $480 on average to extract an ounce of gold
That's not to predict an immediate gold crash. The "fear premium" it commands as a store of value during uncertain financial times could support higher prices indefinitely.
As traders sort out the effects of Europe's $1 trillion bailout and whether inflation or deflation creep up in the U.S., investors will probably continue parking in gold as long as they can. Gold has slumped just a bit as a sense of some stability has returned to the markets in Europe.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/
"The real reason for the drop: stabilization in other markets"
- Gold at $800, say some analysts - May. 19, 2010 (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
Yahoo Acquires Associated Content
"Combining our world-class editorial team with Associated Content's makes this a game-changer."
http://www.webpronews.com/
"self-promotion"
- Video: Self-Promotion Done Right (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
Add Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn Info to Your Gmail Contacts [APPS]
Relationship manager Gist has just launched the Gist Gadget for the Google Apps Marketplace. The Gist Gadget basically lets you find out way more about the people in your inbox, directly from Gmail.
This means that when you get an e-mails, you can also get links to the sender’s Twitter (Twitter), Facebook (Facebook) and LinkedIn (LinkedIn) profiles, see what updates he or she has pushed out recently to his or her blog, and also find out more about how often you connect with that person.
Gist has created a video which gives a pretty great overview of what the Gist Gadget does and how it works with your Google Apps inbox.
http://mashable.com/2010/05/
"Add Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn Info to Your Gmail Contacts [APPS]"
- Add Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn Info to Your Gmail Contacts [APPS] (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
2010年5月18日 星期二
One Corruption center of USA
Wall Street is making money by taking advantage of its rock-bottom cost of capital, provided courtesy of the Federal Reserve — now that the big Wall Street firms are all bank holding companies — and then turning around and lending it at much higher rates.
參考來源："Wall Street is making money by taking advantage of its rock-bottom cost of capital, provided courtesy of the Federal Reserve — now that the big Wall Street firms are all bank holding companies — and then turning around and lending it at much higher rates."
- You’re Welcome, Wall Street - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com (在「Google 網頁註解」中檢視)
matter and anti-matter
equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created in the Big Bang;
neutral B-mesons, which are famous for not being able to make up their minds. They oscillate back and forth trillions of times a second between their regular state and their antimatter state;As it happens, the mesons, created in the proton-antiproton collisions, seem to go from their antimatter state to their matter state more rapidly than they go the other way around, leading to an eventual preponderance of matter over antimatter of about 1 percent, when they decay to muons.
May 17, 2010
A New Clue to Explain Existence
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are reporting that they have discovered a new clue that could help unravel one of the biggest mysteries of cosmology: why the universe is composed of matter and not its evil-twin opposite, antimatter. If confirmed, the finding portends fundamental discoveries at the new Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, as well as a possible explanation for our own existence.
In a mathematically perfect universe, we would be less than dead; we would never have existed. According to the basic precepts of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created in the Big Bang and then immediately annihilated each other in a blaze of lethal energy, leaving a big fat goose egg with which to make to make stars, galaxies and us. And yet we exist, and physicists (among others) would dearly like to know why.
Sifting data from collisions of protons and antiprotons at Fermilab’s Tevatron, which until last winter was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the team, known as the DZero collaboration, found that the fireballs produced pairs of the particles known as muons, which are sort of fat electrons, slightly more often than they produced pairs of anti-muons. So the miniature universe inside the accelerator went from being neutral to being about 1 percent more matter than antimatter.
“This result may provide an important input for explaining the matter dominance in our universe,” Guennadi Borissov, a co-leader of the study from Lancaster University, in England, said in a talk Friday at Fermilab, in Batavia, Ill. Over the weekend, word spread quickly among physicists. Maria Spiropulu of CERN and the California Institute of Technology called the results “very impressive and inexplicable.”
The results have now been posted on the Internet and submitted to the Physical Review.
It was Andrei Sakharov, the Russian dissident and physicist, who first provided a recipe for how matter could prevail over antimatter in the early universe. Among his conditions was that there be a slight difference in the properties of particles and antiparticles known technically as CP violation. In effect, when the charges and spins of particles are reversed, they should behave slightly differently. Over the years, physicists have discovered a few examples of CP violation in rare reactions between subatomic particles that tilt slightly in favor of matter over antimatter, but “not enough to explain our existence,” in the words of Gustaaf Brooijmans of Columbia, who is a member of the DZero team.
The new effect hinges on the behavior of particularly strange particles called neutral B-mesons, which are famous for not being able to make up their minds. They oscillate back and forth trillions of times a second between their regular state and their antimatter state. As it happens, the mesons, created in the proton-antiproton collisions, seem to go from their antimatter state to their matter state more rapidly than they go the other way around, leading to an eventual preponderance of matter over antimatter of about 1 percent, when they decay to muons.
Whether this is enough to explain our existence is a question that cannot be answered until the cause of the still-mysterious behavior of the B-mesons is directly observed, said Dr. Brooijmans, who called the situation “fairly encouraging.”
The observed preponderance
Futile struggle of the American poor
socialist” policies — like his health care plan,
May 16, 2010
Going to Extreme
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Utah Republicans have denied Robert Bennett, a very conservative three-term senator, a place on the ballot, because he’s not conservative enough. In Maine, party activists have pushed through a platform calling for, among other things, abolishing both the Federal Reserve and the Department of Education. And it’s becoming ever more apparent that real power within the G.O.P. rests with the ranting talk-show hosts.
News organizations have taken notice: suddenly, the takeover of the Republican Party by right-wing extremists has become a story (although many reporters seem determined to pretend that something equivalent is happening to the Democrats. It isn’t.) But why is this happening? And in particular, why is it happening now?
The right’s answer, of course, is that it’s about outrage over President Obama’s “socialist” policies — like his health care plan, which is, um, more or less identical to the plan Mitt Romney enacted in Massachusetts. Many on the left argue, instead, that it’s about race, the shock of having a black man in the White House — and there’s surely something to that.
But I’d like to offer two alternative hypotheses: First, Republican extremism was there all along — what’s changed is the willingness of the news media to acknowledge it. Second, to the extent that the power of the party’s extremists really is on the rise, it’s the economy, stupid.
On the first point: when I read reports by journalists who are shocked, shocked at the craziness of Maine’s Republicans, I wonder where they’ve been these past eight or so electoral cycles. For the truth is that the hard right has dominated the G.O.P. for many years. Indeed, the new Maine platform is if anything a bit milder than the Texas Republican platform of 2000, which called not just for eliminating the Federal Reserve but also for returning to the gold standard, for killing not just the Department of Education but also the Environmental Protection Agency, and more.
Somehow, though, the radicalism of Texas Republicans wasn’t a story in 2000, an election year in which George W. Bush of Texas, soon to become president, was widely portrayed as a moderate.
Or consider those talk-show hosts. Rush Limbaugh hasn’t changed: his recent suggestion that environmentalist terrorists might have caused the ecological disaster in the gulf is no worse than his repeated insinuations that Hillary Clinton might have been a party to murder. What’s changed is his respectability: news organizations are no longer as eager to downplay Mr. Limbaugh’s extremism as they were in 2002, when The Washington Post’s media critic insisted that the radio host’s critics were the ones who had “lost a couple of screws,” that he was a sensible “mainstream conservative” who talks “mainly about policy.”
So why has the reporting shifted? Maybe it was just deference to power: as long as America was widely perceived as being on the way to a permanent Republican majority, few were willing to call right-wing extremism by its proper name. Maybe it took a Democrat in the White House to give some observers the courage to say the obvious.
To be fair, however, it’s not all a matter of perception. Right-wing extremism may be the same as it ever was, but it clearly has more adherents now than it did a couple of years ago. Why? It may have a lot to do with a troubled economy.
True, that’s not how it was supposed to work. When the economy plunged into crisis, many observers — myself included — expected a political shift to the left. After all, the crisis made nonsense of the right’s markets-know-best, regulation-is-always-bad dogma. In retrospect, however, this was naïve: voters tend to react with their guts, not in response to analytical arguments — and in bad times, the gut reaction of many voters is to move right.
That’s the message of a recent paper by the economists Markus Brückner and Hans Peter Grüner, who find a striki
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