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December 17, 2010 | ||
Insider NewsletterA weekly summary of the best in Bloomberg Businessweek and Businessweek.com | ||
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| COMMENTARY Currency: The Year of 'Printing Money' Despite Tea Party protestations, Fed policy hasn't put much more currency into circulation. It has increased bank reserves, though, which could one day fuel inflation CURRENCY The Currency Manipulators' Playbook (.pdf) War is hell. Currency war, on the other hand, can be kind of funny. Nations' foreign-exchange strategies are like intricately diagrammed football plays—they rarely work as planned GIGAOM • From GigaOm Google's Chrome OS: What Is It Good For? Google hopes corporate partners will refine its Chrome operating system and Cr-48 laptop into commercially marketable products. Om Malik says the OS will appeal mainly to enterprise managers TECH HOT GROWTH COMPANIES 2010 Lam Research, Other Chip-Equipment Makers Lead Tech Rebound Among our Tech Hot Growth Companies, makers of equipment used to produce the chips in popular gadgets had the fastest collective sales growth in the past year SMART ANSWERS What Companies Get Wrong When Marketing to Minorities Instead of using focus groups, conduct your own research. Then focus on a few well-connected individuals to get the word out, says DLB Group's CEO COMMUNICATIONS Why Your Business Needs a Big Idea To get ahead in 2011, business owners should articulate a goal that inspires their employees. Its success will hinge on its boldness and specificity, says Carmine Gallo Beijing Tries to Ease World's Worst Traffic The government issues new proposals to address congestion in the Chinese capital, where car sales are booming Alstom Aims to Catch Up in Green Energy Alstom is seeking to reverse the worst stock return of any major French company this year with a push into renewable energy as the maker of trains and turbines seeks to narrow a gap with Siemens REAL ESTATE America's Best, Affordable Places to Raise Kids Welcome to Businessweek.com's fifth annual survey of the best towns, villages, and small cities to raise your children. Is your community among them? Year's Best Wines Offer $2,500 White, Czar's Muscat: Elin McCoy From Germany, Bordeaux, Burgundy and more, a critic's picks of the 10 best wines of the year JEFF SCHMITT: FROM THE BOTTOM UP You're a Sellout. What Now? Surely you never planned to let your job and career erode your integrity. Yet it happened. Here are some solutions Mark Zuckerberg Named Time Person of the Year The Facebook co-founder beat out the Tea Party and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to win the magazine's honor MANAGEMENT Start the Engines for Economic Revival How to shake off the recession blues and rev up your business: Communicate, innovate, and hire VIEWPOINT Home Market's Misery May Be 'Buy' Sign Real estate values have been down so long they may be looking up, says Chris Farrell. Especially if you're patient—and inflation returns Hard Times in Disney's Utopian Community A grisly pace of home foreclosures have knocked home values down by as much as 60 percent in Celebration, Disney's dreamy, picket-fence Florida town. A murder and a suicide won't help Gilt Groupe Said to Raise at Least $15 Million from TriplePoint The members-only online retailer focused on luxury brands, raised at least $15 million in debt financing from TriplePoint Capital, according to two people familiar with the matter
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