Chuck Tabbert, vice president of sales and marketing at Ultra Communications, wanted to find out how export regulations on U.S.-made satellites affected his fellow semiconductor manufacturers. So he asked them three questions. The first two questions asked companies how much of their regulated technology is available outside the U.S. The answer: most of it. The …
by Cara Eisenpress Fred Hochberg has won the battle and the war. The Export Import Bank—Hochberg is its chairman—marched successfully through both the House and the Senate this month, concluding Hochberg’s campaign to elongate the bank’s charter, at least until 2014. If Hochberg’s operations had not been victorious, the bank would have had to stop …
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Is Forward Looking Indicator At The Heart Of Market’s Deferred Dreams? Or Does The Public Need To Be More Informed? By Orlando Rodriguez You always remember the one who broke your heart. All these years later, you can still feel the pain, taste the tears and still remember how foolish you felt, having been strung …
By Julie Strickland By the time Reese Ong graduated from college in 2007, she was over $10,000 in credit card debt. Ong, 27, got store cards with Macy’s and Victoria’s Secret just before her sophomore year of college. One cold night at a baseball game, she filled out two more credit card applications in …
Women are faring better than ever in the workforce. Four out of ten married women earn more money than their husbands. 36 percent of women ages 25 to 29 hold bachelor’s degrees, compared with 28 percent of men of the same age group. Time Magazine even dubbed women as “the Richer Sex” in a recent …
by Casey Quinlan More than twelve million unemployed people now depend on local unemployment offices to help them retrain and get back to work, but these offices are often overwhelmed and ill-equipped to address the challenges the jobless face. There is clear emphasis on low-skill work inside the 250 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, unemployment and training …
Unemployment will remain at to 8.2 percent in April 2012, a by-product of an economy likely stuck in neutral. Few economic signs point to any improvement from last month. The ADP Employment Report – a survey of payrolls released Wednesday- calculated the private sector added 119,000 jobs in April. In March, the …
By Cara Eisenpress U.S. manufacturing faded as a bright spot in the American recovery in April, today’s Institute for Supply Management report is likely to show. The ISM releases its Purchaser Manager Index later today, and economists surveyed by Bloomberg estimate, on average, that it will be 53.0, half a point lower than last month’s …
