Surprising Advice from Pop!Tech Speakers Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2008-10-26 13:36:44 There were a number of suggestions the speakers at the 2008 Pop!Tech Conference gave the audience about leading a more socially- and environmentally-conscious life. Here are six particularly surprising ones:
Tax-Exempt Money Market Funds Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2008-10-05 14:12:04 Yields on tax-exempt money market funds have shot up in the last two weeks due to massive withdrawals from tax-exempt municipal market funds. At an average seven-day annualized yield of 5%, these money market funds are offering the highest yielding short investments since the 1980’s.
The Apple Store and the Future of Retail Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2008-07-08 13:08:37
I went to the Apple (AAPL - $175.92) store today to get a new laptop charger (the old charger’s wires are frayed near the power port and it doesn’t work anymore).
The BerkShares Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2007-06-21 17:32:46 I love currency.
I think currency is one of those things, like wristwatches, that will get phased out in time, but for now serve as a reminder that attention to detail is an end in itself. It is with empathy, then, that I read about the town in western Massachusetts that adopted its own currency, "BerkShares," to promote local businesses.
The Corporation Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2007-08-16 23:19:01
If a single entertainment item could defibrillate our socially ambivalent culture into taking action against the corrupt state of the corporate world, The Corporation (2004) might be it. In this fast-paced and thorough documentary, filmmakers Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott cross-examine the management of corporate America, as well as its victims and critics, and leave us with a sense of paranoia and distrust that only a library of conspiracy books could match.
