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When Beth Cronin started out as an associate at the law firm Trenam Kemker, she never once told a partner that she was too busy to do a project. Instead, she learned the right way to say no. “First, I developed a reputation as being earnest and hardworking,” says Cronin. “Then I made sure to understand what the project entailed, when my manager needed it and whether I could realistically deliver high-quality work in the allotted amount of time. The way to handle a request is never just to say ‘I’m too busy.’” Today she’s co-chair of the litigation practice group at the firm, which has offices in St. Petersburg and Tampa, Fla. Nowadays many companies expect their employees to do more work in less ... Continue reading →

IPOs are supposed to leave room for the public to enjoy a little kiss. But, the Facebook offering, so bloody ballyhooed to the point of lunacy just plain hurt all the disappointed small individual buyers who were given a small ownership at the absurdly inflated price of $38 a share. Someone beside Aunt Sadie should pay for this abomination of the capitalistic spirit. Morgan Stanley were fatuous idiots to increase the number of shares being offered by almost 100 million– and to as well hike the offering price up to record multiples of revenues– all on a hope and prayer for the future. And Zuckerberg and his cronies look sadly greedy for allowing their billions to become even more billions than they can possibly need ... Continue reading →

Despite promises of 'substantial renewal,' the new cabinet is filled with faces long seen around the Kremlin who will keep Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev hemmed in. There's a new government in Moscow, and a new Kremlin administration as well. It may take observers some time to master everyone's new job titles, but the officials are mostly familiar faces and proven loyalists of freshly-inaugurated President Vladimir Putin. Skip to next paragraph Though Mr. Putin has moved over from his former job as prime minister in the White House, where the Cabinet sits, to the presidential office in the Kremlin, the overwhelming message from his blizzard of official appointments yesterday and today is one of continuity. The leader who has effectively run Russia for the past twelve ... Continue reading →

The ETF corner of the Twitterverse represents the crossroads of perhaps two of the hottest trends of the past five years. ETFs have burst onto the investing scene as tools for accomplishing a growing range of objectives, while social media has emerged as a tremendously powerful tool for staying up to date on just about everything. For financial advisors and retail investors looking to stay current and further their ETF education, there are a number of great free resources out there. Below are 22 follow-worthy ETF experts, analysts, and issuers; if you sign up to follow these folks, you’ll have no shortage of entertaining, insightful reading. ETFtrends.com was registered as a domain June 19th, 2005 at a time when the ETF industry as a whole ... Continue reading →

Sean Parker (Photo credit: Wikipedia) You know what’s not cool? Suffering more than $300 million in paper losses since Facebook’s IPO last week. Sean Parker, who was played by Justin Timberlake in “The Social Network,” might be regretting the fact that unlike Goldman Sachs, he did not sell any of his shares in the IPO for $38 each. Facebook’s shares have now tumbled by 13% in less than three days of trading on Nasdaq. The euphoria over Facebook’s IPO has vanished and many Facebook employees, ex-employees, and early investors might have an excruciating wait before they can sell their shares and cash out. To be sure, those shares are still worth a tremendous amount. Parker’s Facebook stock is still worth more than $2 billion, but ... Continue reading →

BEIJING -- Chinese fishermen released by North Korea this week after nearly two weeks of captivity alleged that they were beaten, robbed and stripped and given starvation rations in a case that has opened up a rare public rift between the Communist allies. "They used the back of their machine guns to hit us and also kicked us," said Wang Lijie, one of 29 fishermen in a telephone interview on Tuesday. "They stripped us of all our clothes after the beating, including sock and shoes. Most of us had only underwear left." The North Koreans drained the three captured ships of fuel and also removed almost all the caught fish and the food and cooking oil stored for the journey. The fisherman were allowed out ... Continue reading →

"This is the first time I've seen it like this," says Onzchhu Sherpa, 31. Starting on the night of May 18 and going through the 20th, roughly 300 climbers, guides, and Sherpas crowded onto upper slopes of Everest's Southeast Ridge. From the 19,000-foot shoulder of a neighboring peak, where I was watching, Everest appeared to be lit up like a Christmas tree with the headlamps of climbers converging from the mountain's north and south sides.Onzchhu, Dawa Dendi Sherpa, and Temba Sherpa, along with their clients from outfitter Happy Feet had started out from the South Col, at 7,900 meters, at 8:30 P.M. on the 18th. Among their clients was Shriya Shah, a 33-year-old Canadian citizen who was originally from Nepal. Also climbing on the same ... Continue reading →