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A recent report by KPCB entitled Internet Trends 2011 took on the gargantuan task of making the world's feverish pace more digestible 3 Numbers That Could Change the Way You Invest Skip to main ...
Kraft Foods announces that it will split into two operations consisting of its North American grocery business and its global snack foods business. [ 219 ] United States debt-ceiling crisis : The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 512 points (−4.3%) on economic worries, becoming the worst day for stocks since December 2008 and, at this time ...
The end of 2011 brought to a close a disastrous year for Bank of America. Falling by 58%, it was the worst-performing stock in the 30-member Dow Jones Industrials Index ( NYS: ^DJI ) .
The recession may be on its way out, but for many the progress in 2010 was frustratingly slow, with improvements more of a rumor than a reality. Nothing ever stays the same, however, and although ...
The August 2011 stock markets fall was the sharp drop in stock prices in August 2011 in stock exchanges across the United States, Middle East, Europe and Asia. This was due to fears of contagion of the European sovereign debt crisis to Spain and Italy, as well as concerns over France's current AAA rating, [1] concerns over the slow economic growth of the United States and its credit rating ...
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better is a pamphlet by Tyler Cowen published in 2011. It argues that the American economy has reached a historical technological plateau and the factors that drove economic growth for most of America's history are no longer ...
Despite the recession, last year was a banner year for e-commerce. U.S. e-retail sales jumped 9.8% in 2010 from 2009, totaling $142.491 billion worth of merchandise, according to Web measuring ...
That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back is a nonfiction book written by Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and author, with Michael Mandelbaum, a writer and foreign policy professor at Johns Hopkins University. They published the book on September 5, 2011, in ...