Standard & Poor's (S&P) announcement provides a timely opportunity for effected companies to conduct an objective, third-party review of their ERM programs prior to the official S&P risk management reviews. Senior management of S&P-rated companies needs to demonstrate an ability to incorporate risk information as a part of the strategic...
How bad is 2008 vs. S&P's 183-year history? Here's a graphWow, this sucksWhat more can you say?RE: How bad is 2008 vs. S&P's 183-year history? Here's a graphI posted this on a Y! message board and I'll post it here as well:I think the only "hope" is that if history...
Here's a fantastic graph taken from, of all places, DailyKos, to illustrate the information found in the study "A New Historical Database For The NYSE 1815 To 1925: Performance And Predictability" by Yale's William N. Goetzmann and Roger G. Ibbotson and UC Boulder's Liang Peng. ...
The rating agency said the potential effect of ERM on ratings will vary by industry and by the nature of the business. "While all types of firms may experience extraordinary volatility by making poor risk management decisions," S&P said, "Their ratings process will take into account sector-specific risk management." The...
whoaso that is now possible on Google? the project must have been under wraps for years.how many Google engineers with high IQ does it take to personalize Google Search site? does it exceed the number of Google engineers needed to change a lightbulb?
LOL, great suggestions!![i]Run Disk Utility (it?s in Applications > Utilities) and Repair Disk Permissions. This cleans up a lot of system gunk that builds up over time and makes the Mac run better.[/i]But... but... but... you don't need to defrag OS X and since it has no registry, the system...
SAMSUNG TV'sIt is shocking that anyone would suggest to buy any LCD or Plasma TV made by Samsung label in the USA. This brand has proven to be the largest failure of TV's many within the first year of use, and few if any repairs available anywhere in the USA....
Amazon, please ignore AdrianNormally I'm right with Adrian, but he obviously doesn't have a Kindle, which is my favorite device. To Amazon: don't add battery sucking features (like wi-fi), we don't care about multi-purpose (it's a bookreader!), i don't want cr@apps on my Kindle (it's a bookreader!) and I don't...
Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores.The Sony Vaio VGN-NW270F/S is a stylish, spacious laptop for high-definition fans with low budgets. For a reasonable $699 at Best Buy, the Vaio...
Dana, what is the trend in the Open Source community?OS started as a software development and delivery model "for the people by the people", i.e. free use enabled by free contributions. Now free contributions are likely drying out. Companies with paid employees are contributing the most significant part of code....
Defense training?But I never was seriously attacked by any of my monitors. So I will stay with Eizo, I guess.RE: Ostendo CRVD monitor now available - but it's not cheapIf it's like all other defense spending - by the time it's "deployed" it will have cost the taxpayer 5 times...
Maybe so, but you miss it too.The point is Apple [b]doesn't care![/b] Apple has the Bad Cop/Good Cop thing down pat. Steve feeds his Napoleon complex and Phil trots out to make warm and fuzzy noises. Remember-Steve never wanted the app store, his plan was web apps only (unless he...
Quad core, Chris?You have told us over and over that all you need is Google. You don't need a real OS, real apps, or any processing power to speak of. All you need is a browser, preferably Chrome. Why on Earth would you need a quad core...
Tape a Palm Pilot running linux to your arm and call it a day.This seems to be the single stupidest invention all year, besides the snuggie, or backwards bath robe.
Rupert Murdoch is no dope... Microsoft wants SOMETHING Google doesn't have to differentiate the services. It might be as simple as right wingers wants Murdoch?s more conservative news outlets - so MS is hoping republicans will switch to Bing. If MS can turn it into a politics game,...
No jobs with Tax, tax, tax tax, taxntI fail to see.......how tax either creates or destroys the need for labor at any particular company. If an increase in labor is going to bring a positive ROI they will hire. If not they won't. Simple as that. A tax break or...
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