2002

  (July)

   

one • Dracula theme park gets blood sucked out of it • Maybe U.S. accounting woes aren't so bad? • Venture Capitalists: survivors of the dot-bom • This health message brought to you by verbs • Sloan: big accounting firms still don't get it • Skyrocketing housing prices in San Diego
two • Budget hangovers at state capitals • Le scandal du jour? Vivendi Universal • WorldCom bankruptcy: Certain? Or not... • Asian economic crisis 5 years after • Coming to the rescue for firefighters • Economist: Bush got lucky re: debt ceiling
three • Gov. against nicotine-laced water • Companies doing biz with "bad nations" • U.S. steel makers: "bad exemption plan" • Jewish groups against UK anti-euro ads • New 3M strategy antithetical to innovation? • Symphony marketing falling flat
five • Downsizing? Not at small firms... • Section 877: stealth lobbying coalition • Firms dependent on foreign steel sweat it out • China: exam spawns boomlet for various industries • Seattle: java to boost childhood education? • NYC: buskers bang it out underground
eight • Analyst gets turn under Congressional klieg lights • Directors, officers insurance premiums going up • Ehrenreich on welfare reform re-authorization • Shapiro: unimpressed by White House dismay at corporate scandal • Opera, symphony under one financial roof
nine • First look at Bush plan for corporate crackdown • Ad revenues up... except at biz pubs • Lower Manhattan companies hire lobbyists • Hong Kong tops list of most expensive cities • California defines AIDS specialists
ten • Believe it or not -- more corporate scandals! • China lets foreign reporters inspect bases • Accounting: not your usual summer camp • Lobbying for nuclear waste site in Nevada • Travel insurance for terrorism?
eleven • Under the SEC microscope: Bristol-Myers Squibb • ICGN: investors debate accountability • Comcast-AT&T: future merger hangover? • Crash test dummies: how accurate are they? • Goodman: Long-distance post-WorldCom • Seoul: world's most densely populated city
twelve • Fewer parents saving for college • Deficit? Nothing creative math can't fix • Giant Asian carp threaten Great Lakes • Should retail be part of Ground Zero reconstruction? • Katz to TV execs: can't please everyone • Knisley on baseball's labor woes
fifteen • Shell: $7 billion in energy-trading losses? • World Wide Web v. Chinese government • Coke: an easier-to-read earnings report • Critics worry over natural gas plants in Baja California • Enronomics hit Portland, Oregon
sixteen • Marketplace Ick Desk: dirty water/moldy homes • Corporate America gets back of Greenspan's hand • Brown in the pink: new labor contract for UPS • China drumming for first-ever rock festival
seventeen • How on earth do you read an earnings statement? • Stock options as expenses: new int'l rules • Need cash? No wallet? Use your cellphone • Did Bush misdiagnose Wall Street problem? • UN report says Arab states stagnating
eighteen • CEOs: corporate scandals are our fault • Dinosaur bone smuggling...in China • Goodman on profiting in a bear market • Supply/demand hits sports ticket pricing • Medical shows: we believe what they say
nineteen • Seoul: discovering the magi, and misery, of plastic • Music downloading on cellphones in China • Brits: the least-welcome tourists? • Profile of an investment club in Maine
twenty-two • Will reporters investigate corporate owner numbers? • Japan: technology + dieting = lethal mix • Romania touts self as film-shoot "hot spot" • Sloan: expensive, and expensing, stock options • Amtrak: down the track
twenty-three • It is too late for pension reform? • Margin calls coming fast and furious • Japan: first taste of national ID • Economist: WorldCom created more than own demise • Chad on notice re: money from oil project
twenty-four • Marketplace Crime Blotter: Adelphia execs on trial • Sr. execs: no business turnaround until 2003 • Buy new planes? Nah, just fix the old ones • Australia: an IPO that would do the Chicken Ranch proud • Maxa: passport rules are a'changin' • The return of traditional office culture
twenty-five • Adelphia: Rigas family personal piggy bank? • Does SEC have resources to carry out Congressional reforms? • Good contacts help ward off legal wolves • Kmart: customers not buying Martha • Psychologists helping investors deal • Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
twenty-six • Fast-food chains: safe shares to weather market storm? • Finer points of corp. accountability bill • Knisley: Tour de France not a solo sport • Summer's shaping up to be a blockbuster • Never mind the Majors! Here's Indie.
twenty-nine • Investors waiting for fresh wave of indictments? • CEO heads keep rolling: Bertelsmann • Cabinet-level Homeland Security: good biz opportunity? • Allan Sloan: markets are like baseball • Sunshine industries not sustaining Arizona • Kosovo: cigarette-smuggling central
thirty • Bush signs corporate responsibility bill: just the first step? • The Economist: don't credit White House... • UK buys wrong smallpox vaccine • Subways: hazardous to your health? • White-collar crime getting day in sun
thirty-one • Good timing for some pension fund managers... • GDP shows economy slowed down in Q2 • Newest high-tech military aircraft: blimp • Car manufacturers freeze out independent mechanics

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