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  • Cannes 2012 Faces Economic Reality: Cutbacks Everywhere

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    Roger Friedman
    15 May 2012 | 5:21 pm
    Tomorrow brings the opening of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the 65th anniversary. But signs of economic reality are everywhere. Even though Tuesday before Cannes is quiet, today was more than unusually not busy. The best indicators are in hotel lobbies and out front of the main palaces like the [...]

  • Ten HDTVs You And Your Wallet Will Love

    Forbes.com: Most Popular Slideshows
    16 May 2012 | 1:40 pm
    With a little research, shoppers can find the HDTVs of their dreams--at prices they've always hoped for.

  • How to Turn a Financial Crisis into a Business Opportunity

    Forbes.com: News
    16 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    Believe it or not, when we founded our US business seven years ago, banks were thought of as boring, 'the 1%' referred to low-fat milk, and Wall Street was a place young graduates lined up to work, not occupy. We arrived from London in that three-year window between the beginning of the end of the ...

  • The Best China Play: Apple, Google Or Facebook?

    Forbes - Markets
    Nigam Arora
    16 May 2012 | 1:25 pm
    It is not an exaggeration to say that all roads of growth lead to or through China. The obvious question for some of today's most popular growth stocks is, ?Out of Apple, Google, and Facebook, which company will do better in China??

  • From NFL Athletes To Cyber Athletes, Gamma Labs Targeting Gamers Through eSports

    Forbes - Business
    John Gaudiosi
    16 May 2012 | 1:28 pm
    Natural supplement company Gamma Labs, a division of Gamma Enterprises, is the latest company to target the fast-growing eSports community. Gamma Labs, which is working with Eon Interactive on a number of initiatives in pro gaming, has partnered with Complexity Gaming on Gamma Gamers.
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  • Cannes 2012 Faces Economic Reality: Cutbacks Everywhere

    Roger Friedman
    15 May 2012 | 5:21 pm
    Tomorrow brings the opening of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the 65th anniversary. But signs of economic reality are everywhere. Even though Tuesday before Cannes is quiet, today was more than unusually not busy. The best indicators are in hotel lobbies and out front of the main palaces like the [...]

  • GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account

    Joann Muller
    15 May 2012 | 2:36 pm
    (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) Just days before Facebook's historic stock offering, General Motors said it plans to stop advertising on the social media site, concluding that its paid ads don't have a big impact on consumers. GM spends about $40 million a year on Facebook marketing, according to the Wall [...]

  • Why Facebook's Co-Founder Just Defriended America

    Robert W. Wood
    11 May 2012 | 10:17 pm
    Image via CrunchBase One word: Taxes. More? Rates, complexity, worldwide reporting, and comprehensive---some say downright intrusive---disclosure. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg---with or without signature hoodie---may get all the hype in the romping roadshow run-up to the company’s historic IPO. Most of us are agog that Mr. Zuckerberg may be poised [...]

  • Whitney Houston's Family Cashes In On Her Death

    Roger Friedman
    11 May 2012 | 3:27 pm
    Whitney Houston Central Park, NYC September 1, 2009 (Photo credit: asterix611) Whitney Houston's survivors are starting to act more and more like Michael Jackson's family. They're learning to make money from their late star's death. Today-- three months after Whitney died--they've announced a deal with Lifetime Network for a reality series. [...]

  • Are Men Ready for a Contraception Injection?

    David DiSalvo
    11 May 2012 | 2:57 pm
    Contraception for men is a game of extremes. On one end of the spectrum we have condoms, and on the other is the vasectomy. And in between those two options there's... pretty much nothing. You can either go with a simple tool that has a reasonable chance of failing, or permanent [...]
 
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    Forbes.com: News

  • How to Turn a Financial Crisis into a Business Opportunity

    16 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    Believe it or not, when we founded our US business seven years ago, banks were thought of as boring, 'the 1%' referred to low-fat milk, and Wall Street was a place young graduates lined up to work, not occupy. We arrived from London in that three-year window between the beginning of the end of the ...

  • Are Your Exercise Workouts Effective? How Many Calories Do We Burn Through Cardio, Sports, and Yoga?

    16 May 2012 | 1:15 pm
    Your days are packed with meetings, phone calls, analysis of reports, financial models and a whole lot more. I hope you are getting your exercise and yoga in as well and in the most efficient way possible. This also means that I hope you know how many calories you are burning during your workouts. The ...

  • In praise of Legal Aid lawyers (by a white collar criminal defense practitioner)

    16 May 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Who are some of society's most under-appreciated members??? Teachers always seem to be at the top of the list, and with good reason.?? We put our cherished children in their capable hands and pay them a fraction of what "professionals" like lawyers and doctors make.?? Teachers, however, have the pleasure of helping children learn, which ...

  • Procter & Gamble Explains Why Israel is THE Startup Nation

    16 May 2012 | 1:10 pm
    Lital Asher-Dotan, who established Procter & Gamble first R&D hub in Israel called "P&G Israel House of Innovation", explains why P&G calls Israel a "startup nation."

  • Herbalife Ltd. Named Top Dividend Stock With Insider Buying and 2.83% Yield (HLF)

    16 May 2012 | 1:09 pm
    In this series, we look through the most recent Dividend Channel ?DividendRank? report, and then we cherry pick only those companies that have experienced insider buying within the past six months. The officers and directors of a company tend to have a unique insider?s view of the business, and presumably the only reason an insider ...
 
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    Forbes - Business

  • From NFL Athletes To Cyber Athletes, Gamma Labs Targeting Gamers Through eSports

    John Gaudiosi
    16 May 2012 | 1:28 pm
    Natural supplement company Gamma Labs, a division of Gamma Enterprises, is the latest company to target the fast-growing eSports community. Gamma Labs, which is working with Eon Interactive on a number of initiatives in pro gaming, has partnered with Complexity Gaming on Gamma Gamers.

  • Facebook Sex Fiend Sentenced In Teenage Boys Friending Plot Also Tried To Kill His Wife

    Bill Singer
    16 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Terri Smith was an 18-year-old blonde female.  To the apparent delight of a number of teenage boys on Facebook, Terri sent them sexually explicit photos of herself in exchange for pictures of the boys? genitalia.

  • Mitt Romney's Personal Property Ups and Downs

    Luisa Kroll
    16 May 2012 | 1:26 pm
    Mitt and Ann Romney have made big changes in their real estate holdings since 2008. For starters, the couple sold their longtime family home in Belmont, Mass. They had bought the colonial, which sat on 2.5 acres and was located just a few doors down from Belmont Hill School, the private day school attended by all five of their sons, for $1.25 million in 1989, five years after Romney helped found Bain Capital.  The 7-bedroom colonial, which has a pool and tennis court, was sold for $3.5 million in 2009.  All the kids long gone and out on their own, Mitt and Ann downsized, paying…

  • The Romneys' Homes

    Luisa Kroll
    16 May 2012 | 1:26 pm

  • The White House is Spending Big Money on Big Data

    Reuven Cohen (@rUv)
    16 May 2012 | 1:25 pm
    (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It's typical in an election year to see an administration spend money on new initiatives. A new cost cutting initiative unveiled back in March has generally gone un-noticed by the main stream technology media. Called the "Big Data Research and Development Initiative? the program is focused on improving the
 
 
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    Forbes - Autos

  • Dear Facebook Fan: We Still 'Like' You. Signed, Your GM

    Dale Buss
    16 May 2012 | 1:02 pm
    In case any Facebook users got the wrong impression from General Motors' decision to discontinue advertising on the ubiquitous site, the company has made things very clear today on its own free Facebook page: The company still loves its Facebook cohort.

  • Only Ford, GM, Toyota To Gain Share Through 2015, Study Says

    Dale Buss
    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Ford will lead market-share gainers in the U.S. auto industry between now and 2015, picking up 0.8 percent of the market, while General Motors recovers a 0.5-percent share gain and Toyota picks up 0.3 percent of the market in the same time frame, according to the latest version of an exhaustive annual prognosis by a veteran securities analyst.

  • An Open Letter To GM: Why You Shouldn't Abandon Facebook

    Eric Savitz
    16 May 2012 | 12:08 pm
    Guest post written by Jan Rezab

  • Mitt Romney: What's He Really Worth?

    Edwin Durgy and Randall Lane
    16 May 2012 | 9:53 am
    Forbes reveals the most definitive valuation of the man who would be the richest President ever.

  • Is Smart Really On the Upswing?

    Matthew de Paula
    15 May 2012 | 10:55 pm
    Smart fortwo sales jumped 63 percent this year in the U.S. and things would seem to be looking up for the Daimler AG subsidiary. But considering it only sold 3,028 units through April and IHS Automotive projects U.S. sales of 7,000 for the year, success is anything but certain. But at least for now, smart appears to be on a good trajectory, thanks in part to the vision of CEO Dr. Annette Winkler.
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    Forbes - Energy

  • SolarCity: Ditch Your Big Utility And Get A Free Rooftop Solar System

    Todd Woody
    16 May 2012 | 12:18 pm
    In states with deregulated electricity markets, power providers must compete for customers who can switch to a competitor much like they change cellphone services. That’s created an opening for renewable energy companies like Maryland’s Clean Currents. But how to lure customers away from fossil fuel rivals?

  • Mitt Romney: What's He Really Worth?

    Edwin Durgy and Randall Lane
    16 May 2012 | 9:53 am
    Forbes reveals the most definitive valuation of the man who would be the richest President ever.

  • New US Sub-Prime: Putting A Price On 'Chesapeake' Gas

    Matthew Hulbert
    16 May 2012 | 3:41 am
    The travails of Chesapeake have been well documented, and with good cause. This basically amounts to a new US ‘sub-prime’ moment. Gas production worth close to spit, has been used to leverage and enhance positions far beyond credible valuations of the underlying asset.  Gas reserves are a long way from collateralised debt obligations that ripped through financial markets in 2008, but Chesapeake’s woes pose two big questions for the gas sector to consider: Is shale all it’s cracked up to be on your balance sheets? And if not, isn’t it about time US gas was loaded onto lucrative…

  • Fracking Safety Improves Dramatically, Says Independent Study

    Jon Entine
    15 May 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Fracking is getting safer and should present no major environmental problems in New York when the state allows drilling to commence—that’s the headline from a university-funded study released today by the Shale Resources and Society Institute at the University of Buffalo.

  • Chesapeake Shares Keep Falling, But Maybe It's Time To Buy The Debt

    Christopher Helman
    15 May 2012 | 3:01 pm
    There's a lot of investors, analysts and traders out there in oil & gas land who don't expect Chesapeake Energy to survive this ongoing barrage of outrage against its terrible corporate governance, murky balance sheet, lack of disclosures, liquidity questions and CEO self-dealing. Some money managers and financiers I talk to believe shares in Chesapeake are headed to goose eggs and that the ouster of Aubrey McClendon is a given. The rumored share buying by Carl Icahn helped the stock for a couple hours yesterday, but Icahn declined a request for interview and we've not yet seen any…
 
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    Forbes - Personal Finance

  • Mortgage Delinquencies Fall as Housing Starts Rise

    Mickey Meece
    16 May 2012 | 12:08 pm
    In looking at the decrease in mortgage delinquencies, announced by the Mortgage Bankers Association Wednesday, this stood out:

  • Wednesday Sector Laggards: Water Utilities, Paper & Forest Products

    MarketNewsVideo
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    In trading on Wednesday, water utilities shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 0.7%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Tri Tech Holding Ord (TRIT), off about 6.7% and shares of California Water Service Group (CWT) up about 0.2% on the day.

  • Wednesday Sector Leaders: Precious Metals, General Contractors & Builders

    MarketNewsVideo
    16 May 2012 | 11:58 am
    In trading on Wednesday, precious metals shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2.2%. Leading the group were shares of Seabridge Gold (SA), up about 6.3% and shares of Silvercorp Metals (SVM) up about 6.2% on the day.

  • Why It Stinks To Lose Your Job At 50

    Ashlea Ebeling
    16 May 2012 | 11:52 am
    The Urban Institute reports how older workers face steep pay cuts in Great Recession fallout, and Congress mulls over how to help them.

  • How to Overcome the "5 Forces Conspiring Against Your Savings"

    Liz Davidson
    16 May 2012 | 11:50 am
    Do you ever feel like the world is conspiring against your ability to retire? Some people even feel like retirement has become unattainable and obsolete. Joe Mont of The Street has a post in Forbes discussing 5 of these "external, uncontrollable" forces working against us. While we may not be able to control them, there are ways to adapt and overcome them by focusing on what you can do.
 
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    Forbes - Entrepreneurs

  • Qualtrics: Tech's Hidden Gem In Utah

    Victoria Barret
    16 May 2012 | 1:26 pm
    How a family in Provo built one of the fastest-growing, most profitable software firms no one has ever heard of apart from its fanatic customers.

  • Gimme, Gimme, Gimme -- Millennials in the Workplace

    Ty Kiisel
    16 May 2012 | 1:25 pm
    According to Dan Schawbel there are about 80 million millennials and 79 million boomers in the U.S. today with about half of the younger generation in the workforce. "All in all, it’s a pretty bad time to be a young worker (or aspiring young worker) in America," write Schawbel. "Unemployment and

  • Google And Bing Search Engines Get Smarter, More Social

    TJ McCue
    16 May 2012 | 1:22 pm
    As Google and Microsoft plan to make the search experience better for consumers, small business will benefit. Some call it a search engine war. It is more like a search engine extravaganza. Read on. Google calls its new work the “Knowledge Graph” perhaps similar to Facebook’s Social Graph, but Google wants to inventory the 3.5 billion connections between the millions of “things” on the web and in the real world. Microsoft’s Bing rolled out its Social Search on May 15.

  • How to Turn a Financial Crisis into a Business Opportunity

    Dan Simon
    16 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    Believe it or not, when we founded our US business seven years ago, banks were thought of as boring, ‘the 1%’ referred to low-fat milk, and Wall Street was a place young graduates lined up to work, not occupy.

  • In praise of Legal Aid lawyers (by a white collar criminal defense practitioner)

    Lawrence Bader
    16 May 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Who are some of society’s most under-appreciated members?  Teachers always seem to be at the top of the list, and with good reason.  We put our cherished children in their capable hands and pay them a fraction of what “professionals” like lawyers and doctors make.  Teachers, however, have the pleasure of helping children learn, which can be among the most rewarding feelings imaginable.
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    Forbes - Tech

  • CRM: What To Watch For on Thursday

    Canaccord Genuity
    16 May 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Canaccord Genuity technology analyst Richard Davis said he believes Salesforce.com (CRM) shares “could jump 3-8% on Friday following what we expect will be a bullish print and improving investor sentiment about growth stocks due to 1) at least temporary exhaustion of risk-off selli

  • 'Dragon's Dogma' Includes Locked On-Disc Content But CAPCOM Is Listening

    Erik Kain
    16 May 2012 | 12:26 pm
    The good news: CAPCOM is listening to gamer feedback about its on-disc DLC. The bad news: locked content is included on copies of Dragon's Dogma.

  • Nvidia Shows Why Gaming Consoles Won't Be Around Forever

    Brian Caulfield
    16 May 2012 | 12:25 pm
    Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang gave an audience at his company’s annual GPU Technology Conference a peek at what could be the next generation of gaming hardware Tuesday. It’s long. It’s skinny. It’s green. It’s nothing more than a cord linking a video game controller to a LG Cinema 3D

  • SolarCity: Ditch Your Big Utility And Get A Free Rooftop Solar System

    Todd Woody
    16 May 2012 | 12:18 pm
    In states with deregulated electricity markets, power providers must compete for customers who can switch to a competitor much like they change cellphone services. That’s created an opening for renewable energy companies like Maryland’s Clean Currents. But how to lure customers away from fossil fuel rivals?

  • Will Facebook Buy RIM? Uh, No, Not In A Zillion Years

    Eric Savitz
    16 May 2012 | 12:11 pm
    Here it is, the dumbest stock market acquisition rumor ever to be set into type. The U.K. newspaper The Daily Mail, clearly have lost all sense of rationality, seems to have invented out of whole cloth the idea that Facebook might want to buy Research In Motion. The story says that
 
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    Forbes - Future Tech

  • GM Doesn't "Like" Facebook, Drops Ads

    Benzinga Editorial
    16 May 2012 | 1:18 pm
    As we fast approach Friday and all of the talk is focused on Facebook's impending IPO, it was revealed that General Motors (NYSE: GM) is choosing to stop advertising on the social media site as it feels that the rewards are not justifying the cost.

  • CRM: What To Watch For on Thursday

    Canaccord Genuity
    16 May 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Canaccord Genuity technology analyst Richard Davis said he believes Salesforce.com (CRM) shares “could jump 3-8% on Friday following what we expect will be a bullish print and improving investor sentiment about growth stocks due to 1) at least temporary exhaustion of risk-off selli

  • On the Inside of Big Innovation

    Jeff Ready
    16 May 2012 | 12:05 pm
    When Forbes first asked me to contribute, they told me they wanted insight and opinions from the inside of a high-tech, high-growth company.  What’s it really like to be in the throws of it all? I’ve told a few stories, shared a few opinions. But for my next few articles, I’ll be taking a slightly different angle.

  • Facebook: Facing the Facts

    John Wasik
    16 May 2012 | 11:24 am
    Is the upcoming Facebook offering a $100 billion sucker bet?

  • Facebook and the Google IPO

    Darcy Travlos
    16 May 2012 | 5:02 am
    The Google IPO.  Remember?  It was Hot, it was New, it was a Technology Disruptive to how people behave.  The stock priced at $85, opened at $100, closed at $100.34, in August 2004.  Google earned $2.07 in FY04 and $5.31 for FY05, such that the stock traded at 19x forward earnings, although the estimates were surely lower than that, on growth of over 100%.  Google closed at $194 at year-end 2004 reaping the IPO investors a healthy gain.
 
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    Forbes - Security

  • Facebook: Facing the Facts

    John Wasik
    16 May 2012 | 11:24 am
    Is the upcoming Facebook offering a $100 billion sucker bet?

  • A Survey Shows Why Your Personal Data Is at Risk

    Mickey Meece
    16 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    In its June issue, Consumer Reports provides suggestions for protecting your online privacy.

  • Boards Are Still Clueless About Cybersecurity

    Jody Westby
    16 May 2012 | 9:18 am
    The Governance of Enterprise Security: CyLab 2012 Report, released today by Carnegie Mellon CyLab, examines how boards of directors and senior management are managing privacy and cyber risks.  Although two previous reports were conducted in 2008 and 2010, this is the first global survey on these issues and the first to compare responses by industry sector.   The cross-sector comparisons in the 2012 report provide a compelling picture that critical infrastructure companies need to put cybersecurity and privacy on their boards' agendas and place greater emphasis at the executive…

  • Feds Catch Their Illegal Limit In Operation Phish Phry

    Bill Singer
    15 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    Operation Phish Phry, a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt that commenced in 2007, revealed how Egyptian-based hackers "phished" bank account numbers and related personal identification information from an unknown number of bank customers.  The victims were usually contacted by what seemed to them an official email from banks or credit card vendors. The communication directed the recipients to fake financial institution websites, which looked like the real deal. Upon arriving at these phishing sites, customers unfortunately entered their account numbers,…

  • Microsoft-Funded Startup Thinks it Can Stop Piracy

    Dave Thier
    14 May 2012 | 12:05 pm
    Love Torrents or hate Torrents, there doesn’t seem to be much you can do about them. But that doesn’t stop people from trying. A new Microsoft-funded Russian tech startup is developing a new technology that they’re saying will be able to shut down illegal Torrents, and the entertainment industry is listening, reports Torrent Freak.
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    Forbes.com: ForbesLife News

  • James Beard Awards: Mercedes-Benz Next Best New Restaurant, Daniel Humm Outstanding Chef

    16 May 2012 | 9:15 am
    For foodies, it's the equivalent of the Oscars. Last week,??The James Beard Foundation??held its annual awards show at Lincoln Center. Mercedes-Benz presented the Best New Restaurant Award to??Grant Achatz??of??Next??in??Chicago.????Next??opened in 2011. You can't make a reservation, but you can buy a ticket.??The??New York??Times writes, "It is not easy to eat at??Next. The restaurant has only ...

  • Why GM Yanked Its Facebook Ads On Eve Of IPO

    15 May 2012 | 4:54 pm
    A lot of people are wondering why decided to stop advertising on Facebook just three days before the social media site?s widely anticipated stock offering. After all, it doesn?t look very good to potential investors when the nation?s third largest advertiser says your site isn?t an effective way to reach customers. Facebook has been all ...

  • GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Billion Account

    15 May 2012 | 2:36 pm
    Just days before Facebook?s historic stock offering, said it plans to stop advertising on the social media site, concluding that its paid ads don?t have a big impact on consumers. GM spends about $40 million a year on Facebook marketing, according to the Journal, about $10 million of which is for paid advertisements. It will ...

  • GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account

    15 May 2012 | 2:36 pm
    Just days before Facebook?s historic stock offering, said it plans to stop advertising on the social media site, concluding that its paid ads don?t have a big impact on consumers. GM spends about $40 million a year on Facebook marketing, according to the Journal, about $10 million of which is for paid advertisements. It will ...

  • Former Ford CEO Red Poling is dead at 86

    15 May 2012 | 12:17 pm
    Harold A. ?Red? Poling, former chairman and chief executive of , died over the weekend in California. He was 86. Poling, who retired in 1994, was instrumental in turning around Ford?s North American operations in the early 1980s when Japanese competitors were clobbering domestic carmakers. Poling focused on cutting costs and restoring quality, and enlisted ...
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    Forbes.com: Health News

  • On Heels Of Record Health IT Funding, Castlight Health Recruits Former Medco Executive

    15 May 2012 | 8:04 am
    Founded only four years ago, Castlight is fast establishing itself as the leader in a field rarely associated with health care: cost transparency. The , Calif.-based company offers employees of self-insured companies the ability to compare medical procedures based on price and quality, which vary widely within the same geographical area. Earlier this month, it ...

  • Drug Companies Are Testing Health Technology

    15 May 2012 | 8:02 am
    Drug companies are dipping into health technology???or at least skimming the surface. is a new player at this week's 2.0 matchmaking conference which seeks to pair health technology start-ups with deep-pocketed partners. The pharma company, which is a sponsor, says it is "interested in companies pursuing innovation/opportunities related to the digital workflow of health care ...

  • How Obamacare Tackled the Pitfalls of Employer-Sponsored Insurance Reform

    14 May 2012 | 6:35 am
    Last weekend, I explained why the discriminatory tax treatment of employer-sponsored insurance is the original sin behind America's exceedingly expensive health-care system. I also described why reforming this tax break is politically difficult, because lots of industry stakeholders have an economic interest in the status quo. Today, I'll leave those political considerations aside, and engage the most credible policy critiques of ESI tax reform. The good news is that the authors of Obamacare's "Cadillac tax" did most of the legwork for us.

  • How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Drives Up Health Costs

    12 May 2012 | 11:05 am
    A new study in Health Affairs is attracting attention for its depiction of how powerful hospitals are extracting "steep payment increases" from insurers. But what the study really tells us is how much the exceptional cost of American health insurance is caused by our system's original sin: the fact that, due to a quirk in the federal tax code, most of us don't buy insurance for ourselves, but instead have it bought on our behalf by our employers.

  • Will Buying Health Insurance Across State Lines Reduce Costs?

    11 May 2012 | 10:52 am
    During the debate over Obamacare, Republicans have consistently promoted an alternative approach that involved allowing individuals to purchase health insurance across state lines. Interstate insurance purchasing was the second item in the health care section of the GOP's 2010 "Pledge to America," right after tort reform. It's also a part of Mitt Romney's plan to replace Obamacare. It makes intuitive sense: after all, we can buy most other things across state lines; why not health insurance? Credible skeptics, however, say that health insurance is different, and that interstate insurance…
 
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    Forbes - Op/Ed

  • Facebook Sex Fiend Sentenced In Teenage Boys Friending Plot Also Tried To Kill His Wife

    Bill Singer
    16 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Terri Smith was an 18-year-old blonde female.  To the apparent delight of a number of teenage boys on Facebook, Terri sent them sexually explicit photos of herself in exchange for pictures of the boys’ genitalia.

  • JPMorgan: Ten Defenses Of The Indefensible

    Steve Denning
    16 May 2012 | 1:15 pm
    JPMorganChase: Ten Defenses Against The Indefensible: Big Banks Gambling

  • In praise of Legal Aid lawyers (by a white collar criminal defense practitioner)

    Lawrence Bader
    16 May 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Who are some of society’s most under-appreciated members?  Teachers always seem to be at the top of the list, and with good reason.  We put our cherished children in their capable hands and pay them a fraction of what “professionals” like lawyers and doctors make.  Teachers, however, have the pleasure of helping children learn, which can be among the most rewarding feelings imaginable.

  • On the Inside of Big Innovation

    Jeff Ready
    16 May 2012 | 12:05 pm
    When Forbes first asked me to contribute, they told me they wanted insight and opinions from the inside of a high-tech, high-growth company.  What’s it really like to be in the throws of it all? I’ve told a few stories, shared a few opinions. But for my next few articles, I’ll be taking a slightly different angle.

  • E*Trade Settles Auction Rate Securities Case But The Product Keeps On Giving Grief

    Bill Singer
    16 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    In a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) Arbitration Statement of Claim filed in December 2010, customer Claimant Najdzin asserted damages arising from breach of fiduciary duty, misrepresentation, omission of facts and unsuitability in connection with his purchase of various Blackrock and Eaton Vance auction rate securities (“ARS”).  Claimant sought Claimant $125,000.00 in compensatory damages; $500,000 in punitive damages, plus interest attorneys’ fees, and costs. In the Matter of the FINRA Arbitration Between Louis Najdzin, Claimant, vs. E*Trade Securities…
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    Forbes - Leadership

  • Gimme, Gimme, Gimme -- Millennials in the Workplace

    Ty Kiisel
    16 May 2012 | 1:25 pm
    According to Dan Schawbel there are about 80 million millennials and 79 million boomers in the U.S. today with about half of the younger generation in the workforce. "All in all, it?s a pretty bad time to be a young worker (or aspiring young worker) in America," write Schawbel. "Unemployment and

  • Google And Bing Search Engines Get Smarter, More Social

    TJ McCue
    16 May 2012 | 1:22 pm
    As Google and Microsoft plan to make the search experience better for consumers, small business will benefit. Some call it a search engine war. It is more like a search engine extravaganza. Read on. Google calls its new work the ?Knowledge Graph? perhaps similar to Facebook?s Social Graph, but Google wants to inventory the 3.5 billion connections between the millions of ?things? on the web and in the real world. Microsoft?s Bing rolled out its Social Search on May 15.

  • Advertising People Are The New Advertising Medium

    Will Burns
    16 May 2012 | 1:22 pm
    VideoIronic, I know. The messagers being the medium? Being in the ad business, at least half of my Facebook friends are also in the ad business. Makes for some incredibly entertaining Facebook posts from all these creative people. Witty comments about the world, amazing photos they take via Instagram, links to

  • How to Turn a Financial Crisis into a Business Opportunity

    Dan Simon
    16 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    Believe it or not, when we founded our US business seven years ago, banks were thought of as boring, ?the 1%? referred to low-fat milk, and Wall Street was a place young graduates lined up to work, not occupy.

  • In praise of Legal Aid lawyers (by a white collar criminal defense practitioner)

    Lawrence Bader
    16 May 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Who are some of society?s most under-appreciated members?  Teachers always seem to be at the top of the list, and with good reason.  We put our cherished children in their capable hands and pay them a fraction of what ?professionals? like lawyers and doctors make.  Teachers, however, have the pleasure of helping children learn, which can be among the most rewarding feelings imaginable.
 
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    Forbes - CMO Network

  • Advertising People Are The New Advertising Medium

    Will Burns
    16 May 2012 | 1:22 pm
    VideoIronic, I know. The messagers being the medium? Being in the ad business, at least half of my Facebook friends are also in the ad business. Makes for some incredibly entertaining Facebook posts from all these creative people. Witty comments about the world, amazing photos they take via Instagram, links to

  • Dear Facebook Fan: We Still 'Like' You. Signed, Your GM

    Dale Buss
    16 May 2012 | 1:02 pm
    In case any Facebook users got the wrong impression from General Motors' decision to discontinue advertising on the ubiquitous site, the company has made things very clear today on its own free Facebook page: The company still loves its Facebook cohort.

  • Only Ford, GM, Toyota To Gain Share Through 2015, Study Says

    Dale Buss
    16 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Ford will lead market-share gainers in the U.S. auto industry between now and 2015, picking up 0.8 percent of the market, while General Motors recovers a 0.5-percent share gain and Toyota picks up 0.3 percent of the market in the same time frame, according to the latest version of an exhaustive annual prognosis by a veteran securities analyst.

  • The Eleven Letter Word That Continues To Elude All CMOs And Marketers

    Steve Olenski
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    It's a rather simple word to say, just four syllables. It's an easily understood word on the surface - at least I think it is. Its meaning is quite apparent the moment you hear it. Yet so many CMO's and marketers treat this 11-letter word as if it were a 4-letter word.

  • Don't Sell to Me! Hispanics Buy Brands that Empower Their Cultural Relevancy

    Glenn Llopis
    16 May 2012 | 10:10 am
    here is a growing necessity for brand marketers to provide culturally relevant content and messaging that specifically targets US Hispanics. In fact, Nielsen?s recent study, The Hispanic Market Imperative ? clearly states that Hispanics are the largest immigrant group to exhibit significant sustainability of their culture and are not disappearing into the American melting pot. Now that we have confirmed that cultural sustainability matters to US Hispanics, companies must become more educated about the Latino community not just as consumers ? but more importantly, as people and the identity we…
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  • America's Fastest Roads

    Kirsten Bischoff
    16 May 2012 | 12:38 pm
    From the New Jersey Turnpike to stretches of Arizona desert, speed limit is no object to drivers on these fast roads.

  • A Primer: Where Facebook Stands in Internet History

    Kirsten Bischoff
    16 May 2012 | 12:38 pm
    The World Wide Web (aka ? the Internet) was at first just a large number of disconnected sites.   In terms of world history, think of it as similar to the time when it was still popular to believe the Earth was flat.  Pockets of civilization existed all over the world, but they were completely isolated from each other.

  • Tough Year For Oprah Winfrey But She Still Ranks No. 2 On Forbes Celebrity 100 List

    Jenna Goudreau
    16 May 2012 | 12:24 pm
    Media mogul Oprah Winfrey, who has been the top-earning celebrity on the FORBES Celebrity 100 list for the last four years, this year saw her earnings fall by a steep $125 million, or a full 43%. In the last 12 months, she?s pulled in an estimated $165 million, her lowest annual income in 10 years and down from an estimated $290 million last year. However, even with the drop, she remains the highest earner on the list, inching out director and producer Michael Bay (Transformers), who brought home an estimated $160 million.

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    Jenna Goudreau
    16 May 2012 | 12:24 pm
    Photos of the Most Powerful Women

  • Chicago Women Developers Celebrate One Year Anniversary

    Angie Chang
    16 May 2012 | 12:15 pm
    Sometimes you don?t get a seat at the table, and sometime you learn to build your own amazing table.
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  • Bernanke Hedges Bets: Fed Ready For QE3 But Only If Economy Falters

    Steve Schaefer
    16 May 2012 | 1:23 pm
    The Federal Reserve is playing something of a game of chicken with the market, judging from the minutes of the central bank’s April monetary policy meeting released Wednesday.

  • The Value of Foreign Law in Investing: Greece Pays Out on English Bonds

    Tim Worstall
    16 May 2012 | 2:28 am
    Here's a nice example of why there's a value to foreign law in the investment markets. Greece has paid out, in full and at 100%, on an English law bond just after the agreed default and 70% haircuts on all of their Greek law bonds. An object lesson perhaps in our not wanting the people who owe us the money to be the people who can set the rules about how they repay us that money. Bondholders, who were forced to accept losses of around 75pc on their debt two months ago or lose everything, hired lawyers to claim they were "fraudulently misled" after Athens repaid €435m to debtors who resisted…

  • Chesapeake Credit Rating Cut On Concerns Over Liquidity Risks, McClendon

    Steve Schaefer
    15 May 2012 | 1:41 pm
    Standard & Poor’s lowered its rating on Chesapeake Energy to BB- from BB Tuesday, citing concerns about the gap between the natural gas producer’s cash flow from operations and its planned capital spending. The cut is the second in a matter of weeks, after a matching one-notch cut April 26.

  • Facebook's Splashy IPO Won't Cure All The Market's Ills

    Steve Schaefer, Matt Schifrin
    15 May 2012 | 1:34 pm
    The social network is set for a blockbuster debut, but JPMorgan's headache and is still top of mind.

  • Dimon Doesn't Think Trading Misfire Will Impact JPMorgan Dividend

    Steve Schaefer
    15 May 2012 | 10:45 am
    The $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase has been the focus of the financial world for the last several days, and at the company’s annual meeting Tuesday one investor wanted to know if the blunder will impact how much cash the bank puts in the pockets of shareholders.
 
 
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