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Park Capital Management Group Charged. - 0 views

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    Park Capital Management 'Group'- Brentwood being charged with wrong-doing trading as Park Capital Management'Group'.\n
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NachDenkSeiten - Die kritische Website » Hinweise des Tages - 0 views

  • Nachtrag zur manipulativen Berichterstattung über den Fall Mehdorn Leser H.P. schrieb uns dazu: „Mit Interesse habe ich ihren Artikel zum Mehdorn-Abgang gelesen. Jedoch ist es nicht nur “Mehdorn (…) gelungen (…), sein Scheitern bei der Heidelberger Druck AG aus den Meldungen der Medien herauszuhalten”, sondern es wird auch anhand der Heidelberger Druck AG weitläufig die Legende des Erfolgsmanagers und Sanierers gestrickt bzw. von Medien unkritisch aus der PR übernommen (offenbar für eine möglichst “komplette” Biographie). Die Süddeutsche etwa schreibt: “…wechselt Mehdorn 1995 auf den Chefposten der hochprofitablen Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heideldruck). Obwohl der Konzern schon damals Weltmarktführer ist, sorgt Mehdorn mit einer geschickten Expansionsstrategie für starkes Wachstum: Der Umsatz steigt binnen fünf Jahren von 3,3 Milliarden Deutsche Mark (DM) auf 4,0 Milliarden DM, der Gewinn vervielfachte sich bis 1999.” Der Tagesspiegel wandelt für die Imagebildung unauffällig die Heideldruck (damals laut Süddeutsche hochprofitabel) gar auch noch zum Sanierungsfall für Mehdorn um: “Mehdorn hatte zugegriffen, nachdem er den Machtkampf beim Luftfahrtkonzern Dasa um die Spitze verloren und den Maschinenbauer Heidelberger Druckmaschinen saniert hatte.” Ergänzenswert wäre daher noch diese Richtigstellung aus dem Manager Magazin: “Wie ein Rückbau funktioniert, ist bei Mehdorns vormaligem Arbeitgeber zu besichtigen, der Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG alias Heideldruck. Von 1996 bis 1999 blähte der damalige Vorstandschef Hartmut Mehdorn den Buchdruck-Spezialisten mit spektakulären Übernahmen zum Universalanbieter auf, von der Vorstufe bis zum Zeitungsdruck. Nach dem Wechsel des Visionärs zur DB geriet Heideldruck in Existenznot, auch der unverdaulichen Akquisitionen wegen. Das Management startete eine Rettungsaktion und verkaufte das gesamte neue Portfolio.”
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    - Bahnchef Mehdorn wurde von etlichen Medien zum fähigen Sanierer hochgeschrieben, dabei hat sein Engagement bei der Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG dem Unternehmen eher geschadet
anonymous

Politheuschrecken: "Ohnmacht oder Naivität" - manager-magazin.de - 0 views

  • Gerhard Schröder bei Gazprom, Rudolf Scharping und Volker Rühe bei Cerberus: Immer mehr Politiker heuern bei Konzernen und Finanzinvestoren an. Sozialethiker Friedhelm Hengsbach erläutert im Interview, wie die Gesellschaft unter der Vermischung von Interessen leidet - und die Unternehmen selbst auch.
  • mm.de: In der aktuellen Debatte wird vor allem die Vermischung von Interessen kritisiert. Otto Schily zum Beispiel hat als Innenminister die Einführung biometrischer Techniken in der Innenpolitik betrieben und arbeitet nun neben seinem Abgeordnetenmandat für zwei Firmen aus dieser Branche.
  • Hengsbach: Ich beobachte seit einiger Zeit, dass immer mehr Politiker nicht mehr der Gesellschaft - und damit auch der Wirtschaft - als Staatsvertreter gegenüberstehen, sondern in deren Wirkungskreis eingebunden werden. Es entsteht ein Netzwerk der politisch-wirtschaftlichen Eliten. In diesem Netz ist die Regierung nur noch ein Knoten von vielen, neben Lobbys, Verbänden, Kirchen und anderen zivilgesellschaftlichen Bewegungen. Die Akteure der Netzwerke sind austauschbar, politische Unterschiede zwischen den Parteien verwischen.
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  • mm.de: Gerhard Schröder wechselte nach seiner Kanzlerschaft zu Gazprom, Theo Waigel ist heute bei Texas Pacific, Otto Graf Lambsdorff bei Terra Firma.
thinkahol *

News Corpse » Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid: - 0 views

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    Yet another study has been released that proves that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What's more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.
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Why "business needs certainty" is destructive - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views

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    Businesses have had at least 25 to 30 years near complete certainty -- certainty that they will pay lower and lower taxes, that they' will face less and less regulation, that they can outsource to their hearts' content (which when it does produce savings, comes at a loss of control, increased business system rigidity, and loss of critical know how). They have also been certain that unions will be weak to powerless, that states and municipalities will give them huge subsidies to relocate, that boards of directors will put top executives on the up escalator for more and more compensation because director pay benefits from this cozy collusion, that the financial markets will always look to short term earnings no matter how dodgy the accounting, that the accounting firms will provide plenty of cover, that the SEC will never investigate anything more serious than insider trading (Enron being the exception that proved the rule). So this haranguing about certainty simply reveals how warped big commerce has become in the US. Top management of supposedly capitalist enterprises want a high degree of certainty in their own profits and pay. Rather than earn their returns the old fashioned way, by serving customers well, by innovating, by expanding into new markets, their 'certainty' amounts to being paid handsomely for doing things that carry no risk. But since risk and uncertainty are inherent to the human condition, what they instead have engaged in is a massive scheme of risk transfer, of increasing rewards to themselves to the long term detriment of their enterprises and ultimately society as a whole.
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Brainwashing the Corporate Way | Truthout - 0 views

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    One of the most original and provocative books of the past decade is "Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmidt (Rowman & Littlefield). "A critical look at salaried professionals," says the cover, "and the soul-battering system that shapes their lives." Its theme is postmodern America, but also applies to Britain, where the corporate state has bred a new class of Americanized manager to run the private and public sectors: the banks, the main parties, corporations, important committees, the BBC.
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Jay-Z and Warren Buffett Team Up to Teach Kids Financial Literacy - Education - GOOD - 0 views

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    One is worth $39 billion, while the other has a comparatively meager $450 million but significantly more street cred with young people. So Warren Buffett and Jay-Z are teaming up to teach kids about financial literacy. Buffett's animated series Secret Millionaires Club is set to move from the web to television this month, and an animated Jay-Z is the guest star for the first episode on October 23. During the episode, Jay-Z invites four students to his office and applauds their hard work in school, then gives them some tips on how they can become successful later in life. The idea is to get kids hooked by Jay-Z's endorsement, then keep the lessons going long after the television is turned off. Secret Millionaires Club is simultaneously launching "Learn and Earn," an initiative to teach students a well-organized series of lessons on financial literacy. To that end, the program is providing more than 100,000 educational kits to teachers, and putting a pretty fantastic collection of free, downloadable materials online. To ensure that students put the lessons into action, the program is also kicking off "Grow Your Own Business Challenge"-an online competition designed to spark students' enterpreneurial ambitions. While most kids who watch Secret Millionaires Club probably won't end up as wealthy as Buffett or Jay-Z, who couldn't use money management lessons from two of America's most successful people?
Andrey Paxton

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Williams Scot

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anonymous

Abgeltungssteuer umgehen: Gewinne machen - taz.de - 0 views

  • Abgeltungssteuer umgehen Gewinne machen Dachfonds, geschlossene Fonds, sofortiger Aktienkauf - es gibt viele Tipps, wie man die Abgeltungssteuer angeblich umgehen kann. Aber alle haben einen Haken.
  • Das Manager-Magazin erläutert etwa in seiner jüngsten Ausgabe, "warum Sparer 20 Prozent Verlust im DAX verschmerzen können". Einzige Bedingung: Ungefähr in zehn Jahren muss sich der DAX wieder auf 9.000 Punkte verdoppelt haben. Da ist nun der optimistische Anleger gefragt. Wer vor zehn Jahren, also 1998, in Aktien investiert hat, hat jedenfalls kräftig verloren.
  • Ein anderer beliebter Tipp sind die sogenannten Dachfonds. Wie Finanztest im Januarheft schreibt, sei ihren Testpersonen diese Anlageform mehrfach in Beratungsgesprächen angedient worden.
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  • Der scheinbar interessante Unterschied: Wenn der einzelne Anleger selbst Aktien oder Fondsanteile kauft und wieder verkauft, wird jedes Mal die Abgeltungssteuer fällig. Der Dachfonds hingegen kann steuerfrei umschichten.
  • Aber letztlich bleibt es dabei: Auch bei den Dachfonds ist die Steuer schließlich zu zahlen. Zudem fallen bei Dachfonds oft alle Verwaltungsgebühren zweifach an: beim Dachfonds selbst und dann eben auch beim gekauften Zielfonds. Finanztest resümiert daher ein wenig bissig: "Dachfonds sind nicht das Wundermittel, als das Bankberater sie anpreisen."
  • Auch immer wieder gern empfohlen: geschlossene Fonds für Schiffe oder Immobilien. Denn diese Anlageformen unterliegen nicht der Abgeltungssteuer. Kursgewinne können meist steuerfrei mitgenommen werden - wenn überhaupt Gewinne anfallen. Momentan aber sinkt das weltweite Transportaufkommen dramatisch, und so manche Auslandsimmobilie hat sich auch schon als Investitionsruine erwiesen.
  • Die Abgeltungssteuer ist eine Gewinnsteuer. Vermeiden lässt sie sich letztlich nur, indem man keinen Gewinn macht. Aber das kann ja wohl kein Anleger wollen.
anonymous

Tschechien: Tabak-Weisheiten gegen Radargegner | tagesschau.de - 0 views

  • Fast zwei Drittel der Tschechen sind gegen die geplante US-Radarstation, die Teil des Raketenabwehrschilds in Osteuropa sein soll. Mit einer PR-Kampagne versucht die tschechische Regierung das jetzt zu ändern. Ihre "Wunderwaffe": der Zigaretten-Manager Tomas Klvana, der zum Regierungssprecher für das Radar-Projekt ernannt wurde. Zigaretten und Radar hätten eines gemeinsam, sagt Klvana: Vor allem Extremisten seien dagegen und verbreiteten Mythen über deren Gefährlichkeit.
anonymous

(Marketing Drugs With Sexy Sales Persons) CorpWatch : US: Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep... - 0 views

  • Still, women have an advantage with male doctors
  • a book lampooning the industry, "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman."
  • Stories abound about doctors who mistook a sales pitch as an invitation to more. A doctor in Washington pleaded guilty to assault last year and gave up his license after forcibly kissing a saleswoman on the lips.
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  • "Exaggerated motions, exaggerated smiles, exaggerated enthusiasm - they learn those things, and they can get people to do what they want."
  • one saleswoman said she had been encouraged to exploit a personal relationship with a doctor to increase sales in her Montgomery, Ala., territory.
  • One informal survey, conducted by a urologist in Pittsburgh, Dr. James J. McCague, found that 12 of 13 medical saleswomen said they had been sexually harassed by physicians.
  • Approximately two dozen Kentucky cheerleaders, mostly women but a few men, have become drug reps in recent years.
  • While there are no statistics on how many drug representatives are former or current cheerleaders, demand for them led to the formation of an employment firm, Spirited Sales Leaders, in Memphis. It maintains a database of thousands of potential candidates.
  • "The cheerleaders now are the top people in universities; these are really capable and high-profile people,"
  • "I've had people who are going right out, maybe they've been out of school for a year, and get a car and make up to $50,000, $60,000 with bonuses, if they do well."
  • Ms. Napier, 26, was a star cheerleader on the national-champion University of Kentucky squad, which has been a springboard for many careers in pharmaceutical sales.
  • Anyone who has seen the parade of sales representatives through a doctor's waiting room has probably noticed that they are frequently female and invariably good looking.
  • Some industry critics view wholesomely sexy drug representatives as a variation on the seductive inducements like dinners, golf outings and speaking fees that pharmaceutical companies have dangled to sway doctors to their brands.
  • But now that federal crackdowns and the industry's self-policing have curtailed those gifts, simple one-on-one human rapport
  • has become more important
  • Many doctors say they privately joke about the appearance of saleswomen who come to their offices. Currently making the e-mail rounds is an anonymous parody of an X-rated "diary" of a cheerleader-turned-drug-saleswoman.
  • Federal law bans employment discrimination based on factors like race and gender, but it omits appearance from the list.
  • "There's a saying that you'll never meet an ugly drug rep,"
  • But that might be changing, he said, citing a recent ruling by the California Supreme Court, which agreed to hear an employment lawsuit brought by a former L'Oreal manager who ignored a supervisor's order to fire a cosmetics saleswoman and hire someone more attractive.
  • "Generally, discriminating in favor of attractive people is not against the law in the United States,"
anonymous

Brown warns of enduring al-Qaida threat to UK | Politics | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • Brown warns of enduring al-Qaida threat to UK Prime minister says 60,000 civilians have been trained to deal with terrorist incidents
  • Some 60,000 civilians, including shop managers and council workers, have been trained to cope with the threat."Today, not only the police and security and intelligence officers and our armed forces, but also the emergency services, local councils, businesses and community groups are involved in state-of-the-art civil contingency planning,"
  • Gordon Brown today warned that al-Qaida remains the biggest security threat to the UK, as he revealed that tens of thousands of civilians have been trained to deal with terrorist attacks as part of a new strategy to combat extremists.
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  • By 2011, Britain will be spending £3.5bn a year on counter-terrorism, Brown said. The imprisonment of 80 terrorists in Britain in the last two years was hitting the morale of al-Qaida. Part of the new strategy would address the longer-term causes of terrorism by "understanding what leads people to become radicalised, so we can stop the process".Brown said that more than two-thirds of the plots threatening the UK are linked to Pakistan.
Arabica Robusta

Responsible consumerism | Manila Bulletin - 0 views

  • The multinational manufacturing giants were trying to cope with changes in technology and demographics which threatened to make them obsolete. Top managements in publicly owned US companies, regardless of size and performance, cowered under the threat of the corporate raider and his ultimate weapon, the junk bond.
  • Corporate capitalism promised that the large corporation would be run in the interests of the greater number of stakeholders. Instead, it was being pushed into a subordinate role – away from its market standing, its technology, and its basic wealth-producing capacity and into immediate earnings and next week’s stock price. A Marxist would call this turn of events “speculator’s capitalism.”
  • Meantime, Bill Gates has come up with a solution as to how billions of dollars generated through capitalism can help people in the poor nations which the world has forgotten. He termed it creative capitalism. He believed that some corporations have identified brand-new markets among the poor for life-changing technologies like cell phones. Others have seen how they can do good and do well at the same time.
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  • social entrepreneurs are starting companies rather than non-profit organizations, to capitalize on public benefit. To top it all, some of these entrepreneurs choose a new corporate structure that requires enterprises to build into their foundation strong social and environmental standards for their operations.
  • Through Bono’s persistence, the (RED) campaign was launched and today Gap, Hallmark, and Dell, among others, sell (RED)-branded products and donate a portion of their profits to fight AIDS.
  • Corporate America has discovered that social responsibility attracts investment capital as well as customer loyalty, creating a virtuous cycle. Companies are now talking about a triple bottom line – profit, planet, and people – that focuses on how to run a business while trying to improve environmental and working conditions. Some companies have embraced the new ethos.
  • None of this could have happened without consumer demand. In a survey conducted, half of Americans polled said that protecting the environment should be given priority over economic growth – to think that the survey was done amidst a recession and unprecedented record unemployment. Consumers are doing their own calculations and they would prefer comparatively more expensive cars that get better gas mileage, will save them money in the long run, and make them feel good in the process. Walmart, once the poster child of ruthlessness, a retailer whose business in the past was to undercut all its competitors, has resolved to change its way of doing business for the sake of the future of the planet.
  • These days, some companies are cutting back on their philanthropy but not on their Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives
    • Arabica Robusta
       
      How true is this? There are many examples (e.g. BP) of corporations cutting back on CSR.
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    "Capitalism has evolved in at least three different forms: corporate capitalism, speculator's capitalism, and, most recently, creative capitalism."
Williams Scot

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