Bryan Derballa for The Wall Street Journal On a typical day last week, Anne Marie Bowler read the morning newspaper in her apartment in New York's West Village. Anne Marie Bowler left work one day last week to enjoy dinner with a friend at a sidewalk café "before the sun went down," she says. Recently she ducked out of the office to attend a charity golf outing. And Ms. Bowler also likes to make time for long evening bike rides through Central Park. She could never have done these things at her old job. Ms. Bowler worked 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. or later at a big law firm in New York City for years. The daunting workload often forced her to cancel plans with ... Continue reading →
MICHELLE DUGUID, an assistant professor of organisational behaviour at Washington University in St Louis, recently published a paper on the behaviour of women in high-profile corporate roles. It is often assumed that such high-fliers can act as mentors, bringing other women into similar positions. But Ms Duguid has a theory of “value threat”: that certain women, high-achieving but isolated, see others of their sex as a threat to their own special status, and therefore may not want to promote their female peers. One thinks of Becky Sharp in William Thackeray’s novel “Vanity Fair” (pictured, as played by Reese Witherspoon in a film adaptation), who regarded all other women, even her best friend and her husband’s sisters, as potential romantic or financial rivals. (This is something ... Continue reading →
3 hours ago ( 2:58 PM) For decades, Republicans have been spewing out this consevative garbage of "lean and mean", "less is more", "work smarter, not harder", "rightsizing", "unions are destroying this nation", "I'm so sorry sir, but company profits aren't large enough to merit you a pay raise", and similar sewage whle American workers, mesmerized by the constant thrumming of "lower, taxes, you'll pay lower taxes..", sit like toilets with the the lid up, swallowing it all. An American tourist in Sweden marveled when she overheard two bus drivers discussing their summer homes by the sea. She asked them about it and they just looked at her blankly. "What do you mean? Everyone has one." That's what happens when you have a progressive tax ... Continue reading →
Facebook, Inc. (FB) -NasdaqGS 38.00 0.00(0.00%) 7:57AM EDT - Nasdaq Real Time PricePrev Close:38.00Open:N/ABid:N/AAsk:N/A1y Target Est:40.00Beta:N/ANext Earnings Date:N/ADay's Range:N/A - N/A52wk Range:N/AVolume:N/AAvg Vol (3m):N/AMarket Cap:0.00P/E (ttm):87.76EPS (ttm):0.43Div & Yield:N/A (N/A)Quotes delayed, except where indicated otherwise. Currency in USD.Yahoo! Finance ExclusivesAdvertisement:ReportsNo Reports available for FB at this time. Key StatisticsForward P/E (1 yr):0.00P/S (ttm):12.70Ex-Dividend Date:N/AAnalystsAnnual EPS Est (Dec-12) :0.49Quarterly EPS Est (Jun-12) :0.12Mean Recommendation*:1.5PEG Ratio (5 yr expected):N/ABusiness SummaryFacebook, Inc. operates as a social networking company worldwide. The company builds tools that enable users to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other; enables developers to build social applications on Facebook or to integrate ... View More Continue reading →
As access to credit remains tight, more Americans are turning to pawn shops to access quick cash. More Americans are turning to pawn shops to get by, hawking jewelry, electronics, tools, and other personal items for quick cash, according to a new report by Marketdata Enterprises. Twenty-five million Americans used pawn shops last year, according to data from the National Pawnbrokers Association cited by WSAV, the NBC affiliate in Savannah, Georgia. There now are 11,000 pawn shops in the U.S.: 59 percent more than in 1988. And pawn shops are cashing in. The average pawn loan was $100 in 2009, up from $80 in 2008, and as an industry, pawn shops earned $14.5 billion in revenue last year, which is projected to increase 7 percent ... Continue reading →
