Well, it’s official: the American housing market is once again attractive to investors. Hedge funds and investment banks are sniffing around U.S. mortgages of late and buying up foreclosed homes by the thousands. The Economist even reports that the administrators for the now-defunct Lehman Brothers finally unloaded one of the company’s portfolios of apartments for ...
Reagan, had he lived, would be 100 on Sunday, February 6. Many festivities are planned for celebration, including one to be memorialized by Sarah Palin, who wishes to fall heir to the Republican throne in 2012, but contributions aside, in the balance Reagan’s era can be said to have ushered in problems we are facing ...
This article lists the largest companies in the world for the first quarter of 2011 ranked by market capitalization, the mathematical product of a company’s stock price and number of shares outstanding. Among the world’s twenty-five largest companies, twelve are Mega Cap corporations (market capitalizations of $200 billion and more) and thirteen are Large Cap ...
Multinational corporations (MNCs) are key players in international business; they are defined as “a business that has direct investments (in the form of marketing of manufacturing subsidiaries) abroad in multiple countries” (Wild, Wild, et al., 21). Transnational corporations are among the world’s biggest economic institutions. A rough estimate suggests that the 300 largest MNCs own ...
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