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  • Bentley's Nurick Says Good Managers Live With Failure (Audio)

    Aaron Nurick, professor at Bentley University, discusses his book "The Good Enough Manager." Nurick talks with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox and Carol Massar on Bloomberg Radio's "Taking Stock."

  • Gold Bugs Had the Best Monetary Rule

    Ever since the U.S. severed the last remnant of the dollar’s link to gold in 1971, economists have been searching for a new rule for monetary policy. The Great Inflation of the 1970s only reinforced the notion that rules trump discretion. But what sort of rule exactly?

  • Watching Wise Leaders Deal With Complexity

    In a survey conducted by IBM in 2010 with more than 1,500 CEOs worldwide, 80% of leaders anticipated greater complexity in the future, but fewer than half of them felt confident to deal with that complexity. The business environment today has indeed become mindboggling complex due to accelerating globalization and rapid technology changes. Intelligence alone won't be enough to deal effectively with the escalating complexity. Rather, what leaders...

  • Defining Bernanke's New Fed Target

    With $40 billion in monthly asset purchases, the Federal Reserve's new open-ended program of quantitative easing is all about generating self-fulfilling expectations of economic growth.

  • Fed’s New Wordplay to Yield Negligible Results: Caroline Baum

    A forecast is a forecast. In many cases, it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on.

  • TIAA CREF CEO Ferguson Seeks `Integrity' in Business (Audio)

    Roger Ferguson, chief executive officer at TIAA-CREF, and W. Michael Hoffman, executive director of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University, discuss the university's "Business Ethics and the Financial Service Sector" event. Ferguson and Hoffman talk with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox and Vonnie Quinn on Bloomberg Radio's "Taking Stock."

  • Cuggino’s Permanent Portfolio Tops Rivals

    Michael Cuggino’s Permanent Portfolio has been sticking with the same asset mix for almost three decades, a combination of gold, silver, the Swiss franc, stocks and bonds meant to guard against inflation and recession.

  • Whole Foods’ Mackey Says Employees Should Come Before Investors

    Whole Foods Market Inc. Co-Chief Executive Officer John Mackey said employees, not shareholders, need to be the first priority for businesses.

  • Whole Foods Co-CEO Says Capitalism Needs to Be Redefined

    Few CEOs would say too many companies “focus on solely maximizing profits.”

  • Depression Fear Mongers Obscure the True Concerns: Amity Shlaes

    This year is supposed to be like 1932. That’s what you would believe after reading commentators who compare current patterns in the Dow Jones Industrial Average to those at the end of Herbert Hoover ’s presidency.

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