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Dividend stocks are favorites of famed value investors like Warren Buffett and George Soros, and for good reason. Dividends are paid out by companies who earn excess cash and can create the most value by returning these earnings to investors, rather than by funding internal projects. When a firm can safely put out a high yield dividend every quarter, the stock is a solid return-generating investment choice for any portfolio. Investment Underground looked at 10 stocks paying out high dividends, and here's what we found:
AT&T (NYSE:T): This telecom giant is well known to consumers for providing cellular phone service, landline telephony, cable television, and wired internet. Over the past year, AT&T paid out $1.72 in dividends per share for an incredible 5.67% yield. The great news is that the company still generated $3.51 in EPS and has $5.99 in cash flow per share, more than enough to cover the dividend and ensure stability. Going forward, the dividend is expected to grow at a respectable 5.39% annually over the next five years, so the stock will still be paying a great return for at least a few more years.
AT&T has been making headlines recently with a proposed acquisition of the T-Mobile USA division from its German owner, Deutsche Telekom. Several technology firms such as Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) have voiced support for the deal, while cell phone service competitor Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) and consumer advocacy groups have opposed. The FCC and FTC will take a while to come to a decision, but in the meantime, AT&T's growth prospects look positive regardless, with a healthy 9.1% increase in earnings expected next quarter and a 7.6% increase next year.
Even before the proposed deal, a quick valuation of AT&T indicates that the dividend alone makes the stock worth much more than its asking price. If the acquisition fails to complete, AT&T will have saved the costs of integrating T-Mobile's infrastructure, employees and customers. If the acquisition is successful, AT&T will be poised for much higher growth through access to more customer markets and capital for new infrastructure, like a 4G LTE network.
Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ): Verizon is one of the main competitors to AT&T in landline multimedia services, as well as the largest competitor in the cell phone service market. The stock's $1.95 in dividends this year made for an impressive 5.54% return on equity. One worry is that the dividend paid was greater than the EPS of $1.25, so that the dividend won't be sustainable. However, the company has plenty of cash flow to cover the dividend. Further, over the next five years, earnings are projected to grow at 8.62% per year-- more than twice the 3.51% rate of dividend growth.
Verizon has been ahead of the game in several emerging markets throughout the U.S. Its wireless phone division-- which has the largest number of subscribers-- has already started implementing a 4G LTE network, and now also sells the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone which used to be exclusive to AT&T in the U.S. Verizon FiOS, offering fiber optic television, internet and telephone service in homes, is also highly successful and expanding rapidly. Accounting for all this potential, VZ has an attractive forward P/E ratio of 13.48 and a PE/G of 1.86, better than the industry average. That means this stock has the great combination of a high dividend return along with an undervalued price going forward.
The Home Depot (NYSE:HD): The orange home-improvement retailer offers a wide range of building materials, home-improvement products, gardening products and professional services to assist with all of it. The company also offers a great dividend, $0.25 per fiscal quarter, for a yearly yield of 2.99%. The company can sustain this with its ample earnings per share of $2.08 and cash flow per share of $2.91. What's amazing here is that the company has sustained such a dividend and averaged an incredible 18.76% dividend growth rate per year over the past five years. With 13.11% earnings growth estimated for the next few years, Home Depot will be able to keep up this trend of big dividend increases.
With the current recession and the depression in the housing market, Home Depot and its competitor Lowe's (NYSE:LOW) are facing a decline in customers willing to spend time and money on home improvement. While Lowe's has struggled in recent quarters, Home Depot has been busy optimizing its store format, finding supply chain efficiencies, and refocusing on core businesses. As a result, the company has reduced costs to stay much more competitive as well as increase profits despite falling sales. In addition to a generous dividend, the admirable skills of the management at Home Depot are what make HD an attractive stock, even during this post-bubble housing market.
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO): Cisco makes and sells internet protocol networking products such as router hardware, IP telephones and servers for the IT industry, along with related installation, maintenance and consulting services. While its dividend yield isn't dazzling at 1.59%, this is also the first year the infrastructure company has offered a payout at all-- and $0.24 on the year is a good start. This is especially true once we consider the loads of excess earnings and cash flow that Cisco brings in, which could go towards supporting a higher dividend in the future. With $1.28 EPS and a 9.96% earnings growth rate, Cisco will easily beat the industry average 2% yearly dividend increase for the foreseeable future.
As far as company prospects, CSCO stock has tanked to $15.12 a share in the past few months amidst worries of IT spending pullbacks and new competitors in the networking space. However, as developed countries increasingly rely on data services such as mobile phones, cloud storage, and online retail, the market for IT hardware and services will be highly lucrative. Cisco is concentrating its efforts on being the market leader in networking infrastructure to better meet this huge surge in demand, and it has the piles of cash to make such a strategy successful. With a very low forward P/E of 8.74 and a PE/G ratio of just 0.96, CSCO is a beaten down stock with great dividend potential ahead.
Pfizer (NYSE:PFE): The New York-based global pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer develops and sells some of the world's most recognized drugs such as Lipitor and Viagra. Its stock also pays out an exciting $0.80 in dividends per share, which translates to a 3.98% dividend yield. Though it has $2.84 in cash flow per share, more than enough coverage for the dividend, EPS are relatively weak at $1.05. Thus it makes sense that in the last five years dividends have been cut back slightly by 1.08% annually.
On the global scale, Pfizer has been expanding into critical new markets with moves such as an acquisition of a European multivitamin supplier and a deal with Zhejiang Hisun to provide low cost drugs in China. At the same time, the company is aiming for $1bil in extra yearly cost savings from administrative efficiencies. However, these will be low revenue generators compared to the exclusive drugs Pfizer sells. The patent for the top-selling Lipitor drug is set to expire in November of this year, and generic cholesterol reducers will become a tough challenge for Pfizer. Revenue is expected to fall by 2% this year and the above average PE/G ratio of 3.28 indicates it will be expensive. PFE stock does not appear to be a strong growth candidate, but if you're searching for dividend returns, the high yield rate here is intriguing.
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT): Abbott is another company developing and selling pharmaceuticals, but it also operates divisions focused on other health care goods, namely nutritional products, diagnostics systems, and vascular products. The firm's $1.92 dividend is good for a 3.77% annual return on investment. The steady 9.86% increase in dividends every year for the last couple years is a good sign of Abbott's ability to earn excess cash over the long term. An even better sign? Abbot Laboratories' stock has paid a dividend every quarter since 1924 and has been able to raise the amount paid out every year for since 1972. This is a feat that only 4 other companies in the S&P 500 have managed.
That's not to say there's nothing else to like about the company. Abbott provides irreplaceable diagnostics systems for hospitals and physicians, develops treatments for challenging diseases like Parkinson's and AIDS, and nutritional supplements to consumers through the EAS and Ensure brands. For the next year, sales are expected to grow 9.4% and earnings by 9.87%, for a PE/G ratio of 1.25 and a forward P/E of only 10.28. If you're looking for a stable stock that pays a dependable and substantial dividend, it doesn't get much better than ABT.
Altria Group (NYSE:MO): Previously known as the Philip Morris Companies, Altria manages the manufacturing and sales of several lines of tobacco and wine products. You don't have to be a smoker or wine connoisseur to appreciate the stock payout though, $1.52 a share for an amazing 5.63% return on equity. However, the dividend has been shrinking in recent years, which makes sense given that Altria's cash flow is only $1.33 per share last year and can't keep up with the large sums needed for the quarterly cash payments.
Altria Group, which depends on domestic cigarette sales for much of its revenues, is being hit hard by new anti-smoking laws that are emerging around the country. To keep up, Altria is trying to innovate and promote new smokeless varieties of tobacco products like Camel Snus. It will take some time though - Altria is only expect to increase sales by 1.4% this year and then by 2.4% in the next year. MO is probably not a stock to hold if you need good growth prospects. However, its princely dividend makes it notable for those who want the guaranteed payments.
PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP): The well-known food and drink manufacturer produces popular soft drinks as well as foods under the Frito-Lay and Quaker brands. The stock gave a healthy $2.06 dividend this year, representing a nice 3% yield. PepsiCo's EPS is on the soft side at $3.74, but two signs keep this from being a worry. First, the company generates lots of extra cash, $5.43 in cash flow per share, and second, it's been able to keep up an annualized 13.35% dividend growth rate over the last five years.
Projected revenue growth isn't shabby, at 14% for this year, and neither are estimated earnings increases of 9%. Analysts who follow food brands expect a hot summer this year, which is correlated with an increase in soft-drink sales. For PepsiCo's part, the company is introducing new drinks for consumers who are becoming increasingly health conscious. With a forward P/E of 13.99, PEP is good stock in the food and drink sector that can manage quite some growth while still returning a steady dividend.
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO): The iconic cola manufacturer, along with its lines of sodas, produces several different brands of juices, teas, waters and sports drinks. The massive amount of cash that it can earn from its well established products means that it can offer a 2.88% yielding dividend of $1.88 for each share. What's more, it has grown this dividend by an above-average 9.46% every year and its 9.23% expected annual earnings growth would allow it to keep up this pace.
Besides the expected boost from summer heat, Coca-Cola is finding new success in new markets as it expands to grow rapidly in countries like China. The company has a goal outlined for the next 10 years named the 2020 Vision, to double global sales and improve profitability margins. If executed as planned, this will be an incredible source of value for shareholders over the next decade. For any investor, it should be hard to say no to a company that has been able to achieve as much growth and pay out as significant a dividend as Coca-Cola has.
Exelon Corp. (NYSE:EXC): Exelon is a utilities holding company that provides electricity and heating through renewable and non-renewable sources, with 5.4 million customers across Illinois and Pennsylvania. The stock manages to pay out a dividend of $2.10 for a heaping annual yield of 5.02%. Its EPS is relatively weak – only $3.75 – but the company has a good cash flow of $4.80 per share, and the stock's ability to maintain 5.59% annual dividend growth, above-average for the industry, is not bad either.
Exelon is one of the U.S. leaders in operating nuclear power plants and is quickly expanding with modern electrical grids and renewable energy sources. For analysts, the recent worries about nuclear power after the Japanese earthquakes have reflected poorly on EXC. Expected revenue growth has been cut to 1.4% and earnings growth is almost non-existent at .2%. However, Exelon should generate enough excess cash to ride out this downtrend in sentiment and keep paying the high dividend. By a P/E ratio comparison and a simple DDM valuation estimate, EXC is vastly undervalued compared to its peers and still has a lot of potential. The very generous dividend from the company is just the icing on top of the cake.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.


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Stock market averages opened higher on better-than-expected economic data, but trading has since turned cautious ahead of the three-day weekend and jobs data due out Friday morning. The table was set for morning gains after the Labor Department said weekly jobless claims fell by 6,000 to 439,000 in the week ended March 27, which was slightly better than economist estimates. Separate data showed manufacturing activity, as measured by the ISM Index, up to 59.6 in February, which was up from 56.5 the month before and better than expectations of 57.0.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose as much as 99 points on the data. However, with jobs numbers out Friday, and the stock market closed in observance of Good Friday, traders are reluctant to stick their necks out too far. Consequently, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has given back much of its gains and is up 23 points heading into the final hour. The NASDAQ is down 6.8 on disappointing earnings from Research In Motion (RIMM). Trading in the options market is active, but slowing ahead of the weekend. Approximately 4.6 million puts and 5.8 million calls traded so far.
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Allos Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ALTH) is up 9 cents to $7.52 and one or more traders is positioning for a rally with a bullish July 5 – 10 risk reversal, which has now traded 5000X. One player paid 30 cents (50 cents for calls minus 20 cents for puts), 4000X on CBOE. Looks like a new position and possibly a play on results from Phase 2 trial comparing Folotyn vs. Tarceva in non-small cell lung cancer expected in the second quarter. Implied vols in July is about 76, compared to 63 in April.
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A-Power Energy (OTC:APWR), which fell 11.1 percent Wednesday after reporting better than expected earnings for the fourth quarter and then aggressively cut its FY2010 revenue forecast, is down another 83 cents to $9.87 Thursday. Options volume is 2X the average daily. 8368 calls and 8509 puts traded. The top two trades, 1000 April 12.5 puts and 946 April 12.5 puts at $2.70 on ISE, are opening customer buyers, according to ISEE data. In fact, 99% of the puts traded on the ISE, or more than 5100 contracts, are opening customer buyers. Implied volatility in the Shenyang, China, electric utility has eased about 3.5 percent, but remains relatively elevated around 57.
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CBOE Volatility Index (.VIX) hit a low of 16.79, but is up to session highs of 17.59 (unch.), as trading turns more cautious ahead of the three-day weekend. The NASDAQ has fallen into the red with help from disappointing earnings from RIM (RIMM). In addition, significant event risk exists tomorrow. Although the equity market is closed for Good Friday, key monthly jobs data will be released. Plus, the bond market and futures will be open Friday morning and will react to the data. Stocks will have to wait till Monday.
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Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) options volume is running 2X the usual, with 196,000 contracts traded and call activity representing about 64 percent of the activity.
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Did you buy a market index call option in advance of the FOMC announcement on Wednesday? Maybe a straddle? Or did you at least hold pat on long positions knowing that you held an implicit "Fed put" against any meaningful downside? It seems like many investors did one of these, as markets have been strong following the announcement.
Needless to say, all eyes have been on the Fed this week, with most observers (including me) expecting a modest tapering (down to perhaps $70 billion/month) accompanied by a statement of vigilance to do whatever it takes to keep the economy growing. But it surprised most by announcing no tapering at this time. This cheered investors, since a modest tapering was already priced in, and stocks ended up with the second of two Fed-driven market boosts.
First, although we thought summer was over on Labor Day, Summers wasn't done until the other day, when economist and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers dropped out of contention for the Federal Reserve chairmanship. Stocks reacted well to the news on the assumption that dovish Fed Vice-Chair Janet Yellen will win the job by default -- and keep the liquidity faucet either open, or perpetually at the ready. Of course, this came in the wake of positive (i.e., non-military) developments in the Syria saga, so bulls were treated to a double-shot of adrenaline over the weekend.
Then Wednesday's Fed announcement of no tapering sent the market into turbo-boost, giving a strong technical confirmation to the breakout above 1700 on the S&P500 and the new all-time highs (both intraday and closing). And it occurred on relatively high volume.
As James Taylor sings, "You just call out my name and you know where ever I am, I'll come running…You've got a friend. Ain't it good to know you've got a friend." Yes, the stock market certainly has a friend in Chairman Bernanke, and all signs point to an equally loyal friend in Janet Yellen for the foreseeable future.
Although the Fed sees progress in the economy, it further cut its forecast for 2013 economic growth to 2.0-2.3% from its June estimate of 2.3-2.5%. Moreover, the statement cited tighter fiscal policy and rising mortgage rates as the main reasons for no change in policy. I have previously discussed the threat that rising interest rates would pose to the important wealth effect of the recovering housing market as a big reason that the Fed wouldn't completely abandon quant easing anytime soon. But I fully expected a token test of a taper this week. Obviously, the Fed is concerned about creating any shock to the system at all, even though the markets had already priced it in.
Stocks, bonds, and commodities all rallied on Wednesday. Although all sectors rose, the big winners were Utilities and Basic Materials. Utilities surged after the Fed's announcement because they tend to pay steady dividends, and as alternatives to bonds, they have underperformed (along with bonds) ever since Bernanke suggested that tapering was imminent. The Materials sector got a boost due to the inflationary expectations of ongoing easing, I suspect, as well as the economic growth it may create. Notably, bellwether FedEx (NYSE:FDX) rose +5% after reporting an earnings beat and revenue growth.
Although P/E multiples are near their historic average of 15, they are typically higher when bond yields are so low. So, the risk premium still allows for higher valuations, unless bond prices come down, pushing up yields and putting a lid on P/E multiple expansion. Ideally, of course, corporate revenues will grow, leading to earnings growth and stock price increases without a reliance on multiple expansion.
And the signs are positive. First of all, don't fight the Fed. Second, we have Europe recovering, China's economy looking stable, Syria heading toward a non-military solution, the Fed Chairman succession becoming clearer, and perhaps the hope of some sanity during the upcoming budget and debt ceiling debates.
The SPDR S&P 500 Trust (NYSEARCA:SPY) closed Wednesday at 173.05, setting a new all-time closing high (as well as a new intraday high of 173.52). It has been exceptionally strong since finding support in late August at its 100-day simple moving average and the uptrend line from June's bullish reversal, and it broke out above a bullish ascending triangle today. Last week, SPY closed with the price bumping up against psychological resistance at 170, and this week brought a test of the highs from early August. With all the positive news emboldening the bulls, there was no need to close the price gap up from September 10. Oscillators RSI, MACD, and Slow Stochastic are all moving into oversold territory as price leapt straight through the upper Bollinger Band.
The market will need to take a breather soon, but for now, SPY enjoys clear blue skies above and a lot of lines of support as shown, starting with resistance-turned-support at the prior highs, followed by 170, the 50-day SMA, 167.5, the 100-day SMA, 165, 160, and then the 200-day SMA around 158.
The CBOE Market Volatility Index (VIX), a.k.a. "fear gauge," closed Wednesday at 13.59. It had been meandering upward for the past few days, even as the market moved up. But it has remained below the 15 threshold, indicating a lack of fear.
Latest rankings: The table ranks each of the 10 U.S. business sector iShares ETFs by our proprietary Outlook Score, which employs a forward-looking, fundamentals-based, quantitative algorithm to create a bottom-up composite profile of the constituent stocks within the ETF. The multi-factor model considers forward valuation, historical earnings trends, earnings growth prospects, the dynamics of Wall Street analysts' consensus estimates, accounting practices and earnings quality, and various return ratios. In addition, the table also shows our proprietary Bull Score and Bear Score for each ETF.
The high Bull score indicates that stocks within the ETF have tended recently toward relative outperformance during particularly strong market periods, while a high Bear score indicates that stocks within the ETF have tended to hold up relatively well during particularly weak market periods. Bull and Bear are backward-looking indicators of recent sentiment trend.
As a group, these three scores can be quite helpful for positioning a portfolio for a given set of anticipated market conditions.
1. Technology (NYSEARCA:IYW) remains in the top spot with an impressive Outlook score of 95. It rarely gets higher than that. IYW displays a low forward P/E, a solid projected long-term growth rate, and the best return ratios. Also, sentiment among both Wall Street analysts and company insiders, which has been its weakness, seems to be improving a bit. Energy (NYSEARCA:IYE) continues in the second spot with a score of 76. IYE displays the lowest forward P/E and solid return ratios, but suffers from weak sentiment among analysts and insiders. Rounding out the top five once again are Financial (NYSEARCA:IYF), Utilities (IDU) and Industrial (NYSEARCA:IYJ).
2. Telecom (NYSEARCA:IYZ) is in the cellar yet again with an Outlook score of 13, but sentiment continues to improve among Wall Street analysts and insiders. Still, IYZ remains weak in most factors across the board, including a high forward P/E, low return ratios, and modest projected long-term growth. Returning to the bottom two this week is Basic Materials (NYSEARCA:IYM) with a score of 27, due to relatively poor analyst sentiment in the form of net downgrades to earnings estimates and modest scores on the other factors.
3. This week's fundamentals-based rankings maintain their bullish bias as four of the five highest-ranked sectors are all economically sensitive -- Technology, Energy, Financial and Industrial.
4. Looking at the Bull scores, Industrial remains the clear leader on particularly strong market days, scoring 56, while Utilities sunk further as the lowest at 40 (before today's big up-move). The top-bottom spread has widened considerably to 16 points, which indicates falling sector correlations on particularly strong market days.
5. Looking at the Bear scores, Healthcare (NYSEARCA:IYH) is the favorite "safe haven" on weak market days, scoring 55, while Financial is the lowest at 45. The top-bottom spread is a narrow 10 points, and seven of the 10 are bunched in the range of 49-53, all of which indicates relatively high sector correlations on particularly weak market days, i.e., across-the-board selling during extreme market weakness (although we haven't had much of that lately from which to judge).
6. Overall, IYW shows the best all-weather combination of Outlook/Bull/Bear scores. Adding up the three scores gives a total of 197. IYZ is the by far the worst at 107. Looking at just the Bull/Bear combination, IYJ displays the highest score of 108 this week, which indicates good relative performance in extreme market conditions (whether bullish or bearish), while IDU is by far the lowest at 86, which indicates notable investor avoidance during extreme conditions.
These Outlook scores represent the view that Technology and Energy sectors are still relatively undervalued, while Telecom and Consumer Services may be relatively overvalued based on our one-three month forward look.
Some top-ranked stocks within IYW and IYE that look good to me this week include Cognizant Technology Solutions (NASDAQ:CTSH), QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM), EOG Resources (NYSE:EOG), and EQT Corp (NYSE:EQT).
In case I'm not being clear enough for all readers, let me summarize. The economic picture is bullish for stocks, the technical picture is bullish, and our rankings are generally bullish. With a lot of idle cash and the excuses for investor caution gradually falling by the wayside, there is a lot of upside potential into year-end.
As a reminder, our annual Baker's Dozen portfolio of top stocks for 2013 continues to impress. It is now up +31% from the portfolio's inception on January 11, versus the S&P 500 return of +17% over the same timeframe. In fact, all 13 stocks are comfortably positive, led by Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:JAZZ), Genworth Financial (NYSE:GNW), EPL Oil & Gas (EPL), and Ocwen Financial (NYSE:OCN). (Note: last year's portfolio was up +43%.)
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it. I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Economics 101
What is the difference between spending and consuming? And what is the meaning of "luxury goods"? [more inside]
Economics articles on fundamental vs. speculative demand?
Are there good articles/books that explain in detail the economics concept of fundamental demand vs. speculative demand, and how one might distinguish one from the other? What is the basis of this distinction in the economics literature and which famous economists, living or dead, talk about it (and in which of their works)?
Time to gut airline pricing.
Arline prices: a specific question (Italy, late September, how to minimize cost?). And a general (airline econ 101). [more inside]
Economics' greatest hits? ... or... Where's the science in economics?
As a former scientist, help me gain some faith in economics. What were the great successes of economics as a tool for making better decisions in the last 100 years? [more inside]
Theory and Practice Agree in Theory but not in Practice
In what cases is game theory a good model of actual human behavior? [more inside]
economics masters online learning
Do you know any accredited post graduate program in economics that is offered completely online? I am finishing my undergraduate through distance learning and am very interested in economics. I would like to get my MA but due to my work/life schedule attending at a campus is not feasible. I have been unable to find any, but am optimistic that the filter can help me out. Thanks for your time.
Did Keynes really say this?
Did Keynes really say, "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."? [more inside]
Where do I find historic economic data?
Is there some database of historical market prices for commodities? As in, if I wanted to know the average market price for a tonne of salt petre in 1835 where would I look?
Best general books on how the world works?
What are the best "grand theory" books and essays purporting to explain generally how the world works - at the macro, economic/political/historical/sociological/foreign policy scale - written in or after the 20th century?
Atlas Scowled Mightily
What single book presents the most forceful argument against both Randian Objectivism and the libertarian political philosophy that presents itself (in some ways, at least) as having followed naturally from Rand's ideas? [more inside]
College-level economics competitions?
The Federal Reserve just ended its College Federal Reserve Challenge Competition, which I have always enjoyed competing in. What other economics, public policy, or problem solving collegiate-level competitions can you recommend? [more inside]
Car Rental and Social Capital: Help!
Looking for source of an anecdote about social capital and trust. It involves renting a car: and apparently, in some developing countries (or possibly rural China?) where there are low levels of trust of outsiders, people at first found even the idea of renting a car implausible because they can't see why you would let a stranger drive away with your car or why you would return the car to a stranger you will never see again. [more inside]
What are the effects of high inflation and high interest rates on an economy?
Economicsfilter: How do mortgages work in developing countries with high rates of inflation and high interest rates? For example, Pakistan has a 20% inflation rate and the average fixed term prime residential mortgage for people with good credit is priced at 17%. What are the effects of this on a market? [more inside]
How to get a public policy research job in DC?
I'm a recent master's graduate in Applied Economics (Concentration: Community and Economic Development), and I'm looking for a research position with the government or a consulting firm that performs public policy-related research (e.g. The Urban Institute, Brookings, Pew Research Center, etc.). I've had no luck to this point (been looking for about two months), and I'd like some advice. [more inside]
Inflation forever?
[EconomicsFilter] Deflation is evil... or so everyone in government and main stream media says. The government has an obvious conflict of interest in this instance (inflation is essentially a hidden tax) and I'm unimpressed with the main stream media's coverage of monetary policy. What's the real deal? [more inside]
Keeping The Lions Strong So They Have The Stamina To Hunt The Gazelles
Why is all this money going to industry and commerce, not the citizenry? [more inside]
How can the Fed Destroy Money It Created?
[MonetaryPolicyFilter] In relation to the Fed's huge injection of money yesterday, please explain to me how, if at all, the Federal Reserve can destroy money on its balance sheet in a way that offsets the inflation that normally would result. [more inside]
Where to start on a demography paper?
paper filter: I'm doing a paper on information technology's effect on population growth/migration. Where do I start?! [more inside]
Your favorite example of experts getting it wrong
I'm writing an essay on the blindness of experts. Kremlinologists didn't see the collapse of the Soviet Union coming. Economists thought U.S. home prices would keep going up forever. Can you think of more examples?
What were the social impacts of the lost decade?
What were the social impacts of the lost decade in Japan? Yes, I know economists are all about growth-growth-growth and if you don't have it you're a failure. But what were the actual impacts on levels of personal happiness and satisfaction? [more inside]
What are the day-to-day details of a world based on Social Credit?
What are the day-to-day details of a world based on Social Credit? How do companies conduct their business? How are civic services accomplished? [more inside]
Where do all the Ph.D.s go?
Is there a website or other source that lists graduate student placements across universities? [more inside]
Help a Drywallhanger understand money
First let me say I'am ignorant when it comes to economics, but I'd like to have a better understand of it. With that in mind this clip makes sense to me but I also understand it flys in the face of everything held to be sensible about modern economics. Help me understand. Thanks.
Why are there restrictions on spending US taxpayer money on US goods?
Why are there restrictions on spending US taxpayer money on US goods? [more inside]
Explain Marx's conception of economic crises.
I'm trying to wrap my head around Marx's conception of Capitalist economic crises. He claims that these crises emerge every 7 years, and are caused by "the epidemic of overproduction." Is there any historical justification for this? (Especially in the modern era?)
Demand: Law. Gravity: Just a theory.
How would you go about proving that the law of demand does not exist? [more inside]
Game theory for people who like words and pictures?
Best books, websites, lecture series on game theory and its applications for smart people who understand mathematics but can't stand trawling through pages of unnecessary complex formulae?
Why is Megan McArdle a good fit for the NYTimes?
Why is Megan McArdle so highly regarded? [more inside]
How to find an summer internship related to economic development?
I'm a first-year economics PhD student in Washington, DC. I'm looking for a paid, summer internship relating to economic development. I'm open to any geographic location. What are some good online resources I could utilize to help me find such an internship?
Going back to school... Help!
I want to go back to school. Where do I start? [more inside]
What is the largest National debt to GDP ever held?
What is the largest National debt to GDP ever held? [more inside]
Is our money system broken?
[EconomistFilter] Are interest based money systems fundamentally broken? [more inside]
What book to get him?
Christmas gift: what non-fiction political or economic book should I get for my liberal intellectual brother? [more inside]
Does buying local really help the community?
Buying local: Facts and fictions. Help me sort through the arguments about buying local as I get inundated with requests to do so this holiday season. [more inside]
One Million Dollars.
Given that at least $350 billion of Federal bailout money remains to be allocated by Congress to the Treasury, a hypothetical: what would happen if Congress decided that the problem with the credit markets was ultimately not a lack of money to lend, but a lack of credible lendees, and decided to just give every American a million dollars? [more inside]
Is the yield curve broken?
MoneyFilter: Help me understand the Treasury yield curve. [more inside]
Value of Winning the Super Bowl
Are there any estimates that exist of the value to a football team (not the host city) of winning the Super Bowl? [more inside]
What is the economic success of Dubai attributed to?
I read the Wikipedia article on Dubai itself, but am still confused as to exactly how businesses such as a hotel located in the country can afford to do things like put on a larger fireworks show than the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
A friend of mine with Republican/Libertarian leanings told me they do not charge any form of taxes and that is why business has boomed there, but I am a bit dubious about this answer.
I know they use a lot of borderline slave labor to build, but there has to be more than that too.
A friend of mine with Republican/Libertarian leanings told me they do not charge any form of taxes and that is why business has boomed there, but I am a bit dubious about this answer.
I know they use a lot of borderline slave labor to build, but there has to be more than that too.
Level-up, Economics.
I'm looking for a good, intermediate economics textbook. [more inside]
Confused about comparative advantage, specialisation and trade.
EconomicsNewbieFilter: I'm confused about absolute advantage, comparative advantage and specialisation. Particular example inside. [more inside]
Help me find an internship in Oregon!
Help me find an internship in Oregon! I am not sure of my next move, at this point. [more inside]
Go big or go home?
The Dow Jones average on November 5th: Is it going up or down, help me decide. [more inside]
What would you do with my money?
Looking for opinions here. My husband just retired, we have a government pension of $1,600/month. House paid for, ditto basic health insurance; we can live comfortably (high speed net access, Netflix, newspaper) if we're careful. We have $12,000 in savings, in cash. SO: save it all & add to it (last summer's plan) or spend some or all of it on useful items that may get scarcer and/or more expensive. What would you do?
Job search during depression
What kind of jobs might a person without much job experience actually be able to get straight out of college, given the current financial crisis and general economic BLARGH? [more inside]
Credit Crunch filter - Help me understand Electronic Traded Funds
I want to diversify my asset portfolio to include Noble/Precious metals commodities (primarily Palladium). I've heard an effective method is via ETCs. Can someone explain to me what a Exchange Traded Commodity actualy is. [more inside]
US income tax history and theory for dummies?
With all the bickering over taxes in the election campaign, I'm trying to get a broader picture of US income tax history, theories behind past policies, and analysis of how they worked (in idiot friendly language). [more inside]
Any Travel Tips for Film and Economics Students in Paris?
Where and What to do in Paris (for a film student and his partner who is an economics student)? [more inside]
ACLU is to the Constitution as ________ is to Economics?
ACLU is to the Constitution as ________ is to Economics? [more inside]
Trip to Iceland during economic crisis
I was planning to take a short, last minute vacation to Iceland next week. Now the economy is collapsing (worse than ours). [more inside]
Should I stay or should I go? And by "I," I mean my money.
I've been meaning to switch from a large national (US) bank to a small local one for about a month now. Is it a good time or a bad time? [more inside]


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They're Simple Dogs, Brent.
Not all dogs are good at everything. Some flunked out of bomb sniffing class. But good news - these goofy TSA rejects can be your new best friend. For free, if you can get to Texas. Available breeds are German Shorthaired Pointers, Labrador Retrievers, German Shepherds and Belgian Malinois. Here are the Canine Adoption Program requirements. [all videos subtitled, no narration] [more inside]
All I remember is her request that I not use her name.
When NBC commentator Al Trautwig felt it necessary to point out that U.S. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles' parents are biologically her grandparents, some on Twitter pushed back. Trautwig briefly dug in, tweeting "They may be mom and dad but they are NOT her parents.", then deleted the tweet and apologized. Cece Lederer of the Daily Dot says that this is just another example of how we still don't know how to talk about adoption.
Can I trust you?
Stealing Hope: A longread series from the Charleston Post & Courier on a group of "emotional scammers" preying on increasingly desperate adoptive parents. (Design Warning: All Links Contain Autoplaying Animations)
I Was Adopted - When I Was 41
At thirteen, a neglectful foster system tore me from the only woman I ever wanted to call "Mom." Decades later I tracked her down and finally got my happy ending.
Psychiatric lockout: making the toughest love choice
A growing number of parents in Illinois who are unable to access necessary mental health treatment through Medicaid are voluntarily abandoning custody to the state so their children can get the care they need for severe mental illness. [more inside]
"She was her best self when she was trying to be the Supergirl within."
An Open Letter To Supergirl Stars Melissa Benoist and Chyler Leigh, From An Adoptive Mom: "But it's our oldest daughter that has gained the most from Supergirl. She identifies strongly with Kara Danvers. Like Kara, our girl has long blonde hair; she wears glasses; she was adopted. And just as Kara does, our girl misses her first family, and she struggles with feeling alien at times." (Spoilers for season 1 of the CBS TV series Supergirl.) [more inside]
Who Rescued Whom?
Team Ruff or Team Fluff?
How smart animal shelters aim for zero kill.
How smart animal shelters aim for zero kill. Some shelters are euthanizing far fewer animals than others, and it's not because they have more funding: they're adopting different, smarter practices, including feline Trap-Neuter-Return, emphasizing spay and neuter in communities, encouraging owner retention, and making adoptions easier. Initiatives like Target Zero and The Million Cat Challenge help make it possible for cities achieve greater live-release rates. "In five years, Jacksonville's shelter went from saving less than 30 percent of its animals to saving 90 percent, including many more dogs than before."
"There's the Jamaican bobsled team, so TAKE THAT, stereotypes!"
"Black Folk Don't..." is an open conversation that invites everyone to take a second look at the grey areas between us all, no matter the race, and most importantly to do it with a sense of humor. This documentary web series is a special presentation of BlackPublicMedia.org, directed and produced by Angela Tucker, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Did you know that black folk don't… [more inside]
"I just want to sit in your lap and tell you stories with my eyes."
Breaking Cat News brings you a Special Report: Shelter Cats. [more inside]
Promise that you will live up to this, it said.
The Fort of Young Saplings: Vanessa Veselka writes about family, the ownership of stories, and the meaning of military victory (or its absence) in the context of her father's adoption by the Kiks.ádi. (Veselka previously and previously, caution on the latter for sexual violence.)
The Children of Strangers
The Badeau family have adopted over twenty children over the course of their marriage, spurred on by a mix of religion and a desire to help those who have no one left to turn to.
The Mother of Modern Adoption
Georgia Tann was an influential adoption advocate who popularized adoption in the US from 1920s to the 1950s. She arranged adoptions for movie stars like Joan Crawford and Lana Turner and essentially devised the modern closed adoption. But Tann's babies were not necessarily unwanted, and in fact she frequently stole them from poor parents or told parents their children were dead. Worse, the children in her care were often neglected or abused, and Tann would adopt children to anyone with the money to pay her exorbitant fees. Remarkably, Tann's legacy of corruption, neglect, and child theft went unremarked until after her death.
Pregnancy is brutal
"It took me eighteen weeks to heal. I never did manage to breastfeed properly, either gross incompetence on my part or possibly my body deciding: what the fuck, man. My hair went grey. I didn't try to ask for support, at least until I started showing PTSD symptoms and developed Postpartum Psychosis. The experience had taught us that I was essentially disposable, and I didn't trust the hospital enough to return. I sought help from other services instead. I heard voices, ringing in empty rooms. I heard constant crying while the baby was asleep." [more inside]
They Deserve Better
NYC Public Advocate Letitia James and 10 children in foster care have filed a federal class action lawsuit [PDF, trigger warning] against the child welfare agencies of New York City and New York State, alleging "that the city's Administration for Children's Services fails to provide the services, planning and caseworker training to help children find permanent families before they suffer irreparable harm".
On My Mom, The Sex She Had, and The Adoption She Didn't Plan
"For my mother and women like her, now in the final chapters of their lives, people crave a narrative that forces adoption as the only possible solution." "Overwhelmingly then, adoptive parents, like myself, decide how the mothers who birthed our children should be perceived." [more inside]
"I'm not one of those who will ever say to you 'No regrets.'"
Kate Mulgrew tells the Chicago Tribune's Heidi Stevens about giving her daughter up for adoption and reconnecting 20 years later (Video). [more inside]
"May you always know you are loved," I whispered.
"It's completely alone," I said. That baby, that poor baby. What had it done? "Nobody is coming for it."A meditation on adoption, heartbreak, and healing, by Sarah Church Baldwin for The Rumpus: Build-A-Bear.
Softly she asked, "Would it be OK if we called it 'her'?"
It was then as though my therapist's finger grew very long. It arced through the air, crossing the space between us, and touched my chest, the tip of it pressing into my heart, and my body collapsed around it, folded in on itself from pain, the worst pain I had ever felt because it had no source. I was the pain. I saw that baby on her back, alone, and I understood that she was me. In that moment I was flooded—intellectually, emotionally, physically—by the very knowledge I had so long barricaded myself against: that someone had given birth to me. And worse: that I had not been fit to keep.
New scrutiny on re-homing of adopted kids
"Re-homing" is the largely unregulated practice by which parents of adopted children in the U.S. hand over those children to new families, with little or no government oversight. While some states started cracking down last year, the issue has gained new attention with the story of Arkansas Representative Justin Harris and his wife. They adopted a pair of girls, 3 and 6, who proved more troublesome than they seemed. Harris and his wife gave the girls to a worker in the religious school he owned, who subsequently raped the 6-year-old. The girls' previous foster family has now raised questions about Harris' story. [Previously, a 2013 Reuters investigation: The Child Exchange - Inside America's underground market for adopted children] [more inside]
People do not naturally assume that my family is a family.
Friends often try to assure me that people mean well, urging me to go easy on them, to be gracious, to give people the benefit of the doubt. "People don't mean to be offensive," they tell me. "They just don't know how to say it without coming across that way."Nishta Mehra writes about her family's experience with learning how to navigate the landscape of interracial adoption in a "post-racial" America: Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair.
What these friends don't understand is that when the act of defining your family structure becomes an expected part of every day of your entire life, you grow tired of being gracious. It's exhausting to have strangers view your life as an up-for-grabs educational experience. For my kid, it's to constantly hear the underlying message: "Your life, your family, doesn't make sense to me. Someone needs to explain it to me. You owe me an explanation."
It's the people who live comfortably inside majorities who tend to discount any sort of commentary from minorities as being "overly sensitive." And I imagine that it's hard to step back and grasp the fact that when the world you occupy is built to accommodate you, you fit inside the boxes. You make sense. You are expected.
"In Chinese, mei-mei means sister."
Best friends forever: Separated in China, 2 girls reunite in U.S.
Mae and Mai spent the first years of their lives in the same orphanage in southern China, before they were adopted by families on opposite coasts of the United States. They were inseparable in China. As close as sisters. They ate together and played together, and even after they were moved to separate foster families in the same town, they went to school together and often shared meals at one girl's home. Adoption may have saved their lives, but they both lost someone they loved.
This week, four years after the best friends were split up, the girls reunited in Oakland, where they're receiving treatment for the same genetic blood disease at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.
"Today, both families hope to do what's best for Karen."
The Limits of Jurisdiction: in Guernica, Erin Siegal McIntyre writes about her six-year investigation into corruption and crime in international adoptions from Guatemala, as exposed through the story of one little girl. "For the past six years, the child known as Karen has lived in Missouri with her adoptive parents, Timothy and Jennifer Monahan. But Loyda Rodríguez and Dayner Hernández, a young Guatemalan couple, are convinced the child is their daughter, Anyelí, who was kidnapped in November 2006. Although a Guatemalan judge ruled that Karen should be returned to Guatemala in 2011, the Monahans have kept her." [more inside]
When My Mom Was an Astronaut
Jennifer Peepas (aka Captain Awkward) writes about infinite parallel universes from the perspective of an adopted child.
Crowdfunding to Build Your Family
Should we crowdfund families? The cost of some adoptions or fertility treatments have people turning to Crowdfunding. Growing your family has never been more public. [more inside]
A raccoon of my own
Only a handful of all the animal species on earth can be tamed, but that doesn't stop a homesick girl of 15 from trying
Maybe not.
Studies show that abused or neglected children placed in foster care face lifelong challenges greater than children who remain with their families.
Wow, are those real?
Florida's Shame
"After Florida cut down on protections for children in troubled homes, deaths soared. The children died in ways cruel, outlandish, predictable and preventable." [more inside]
220 chicken adoptions
"I became a hell child."
Growing up in a Romanian orphanage, Izidor Ruckel just wanted to get out. Now, he makes it his mission to raise awareness of the suffering of other orphans who remain institutionalized. [more inside]
Hana Williams' Story: How a rescue adoption lead to a preventable death
Foreign adoptions by large, evangelical families may begin happily, but patterns of neglect and dysfunction have Seattle area communities questioning their benefits. (SLSlate) [more inside]
The girls who went away, and the house they left behind
Before the days of Roe v. Wade (and sometimes after) girls who got pregnant were sent away. Now one of the places that housed them is closing. [more inside]
The highs and lows of caring for a drug-dependent baby
In a long-running mumsnet.com thread, a UK foster mum tells the heartbreaking story of looking after a newborn baby girl suffering from drug addition. It's a long read, but worth it.
An orphan goes to church and asks someone, anyone to adopt him
This had been his idea. He'd heard something about God helping people who help themselves. So here he was, on a Sunday in September, surrounded by strangers, taking his future into his own sweaty hands.
The New Diaspora: African-American Babies Adopted Outside of the US
Many African-American and mixed race babies offered for adoption are finding new homes in Europe and outside of the US. (SLCNN)
Regret your international adoption? There's an app for that!
"I am totally ashamed to say it but we do truly hate this boy!" Reuters has published an investigative piece on parents trading or giving away their adopted children. A disturbing practice brought to you by the internet, Yahoo! message boards, and a near-total lack of oversight by any authority.
Another thing to blame your parents for
A layperson-friendly analysis of a seminal (1100+ cites) study on obesity that found no correlation between environment/upbringing and obesity, whilst finding very strong correlation between genetic heritage and obesity. To sum up: adopted children's body weight matches their biological parents, not their adoptive parents.
"We went from Africa to Africa"
"Orphan theology" in the evangelical Christian movement in the United States. One mother described herself as "a dumpster diving orphan lunatic" who was still "afflicted with my Orphan Obsession" after bearing two kids and adopting four more.
We Found Our Son in the Subway
"My Baby, Not My Child"
Callie Mitchell, a 25-year-old student and photographer, documented her pregnancy and decision to place her child for adoption. Photographs.
112 lb newborn photos
The face is angelic, the lighting soft and the subject is napping peacefully – just the way a newborn photo shoot should look. It took 13 years, but Latrell Higgins finally has his baby photos.
Maternal Instinct
Animals Adopting Other Animals (SLYPlaylist)
gentle observer
Why People Really Love Technology: An Interview with Genevieve Bell The thing I love about Intel researcher Genevieve Bell is that she finds surprising things by looking at what's left out of the dominant narratives about technology. She finds data that's ignored because it didn't fit into the paradigm of, say, how people adopt technology. The dominant narrative is that young men determine the popularity of phones, computers, websites, and the like. But when Bell looked at the data, the story we told ourselves about how the world worked was not reflected in the numbers. That's why I wanted to talk to her about what gadgets people around the world might be using over the next decade. I figured she was someone who could look past the conventional wisdom and find the missing pieces of the future
Farmer's Dilemma
"Farmer's Dilemma" is a short, sad and beautiful comic about family and acceptance. From Sam Alden's art blog, GINGERLAND.
In 2010, 1st grader Katie Goldman was the bullied kid at her school for being a girl who was into Star Wars (which is, of course, only for boys). Geeks and fans across the net rallied to give moral support to Katie ("The Littlest Jedi") for standing up for who she wanted to be. Katie and her mother went on to lead an anti-bullying effort at Katie's school (which now observes December 10th as "Proud To Be Me Day") and Katie became a symbol of geek pride and anti-bullying, standing up at a birthday party for a boy who wanted to have his nails painted like the girls were getting. The experience became the source of book Bullied. In 2012, it was Katie's turn to show geek solidarity. The 501st Legion/"Vader's Fist", who had been so supportive when her story went viral, were now among those being taunted online for their cosplay geekery at a con, and Katie wanted to be a stormtrooper for Halloween to show her support. When the troopers heard that, the 501st's First Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment came together to raise the funds/materials/expertise and build a full-on custom-fitted set of proper stormtrooper armor ('77 movie specs and all), with just days to spare before Halloween, as a gift for the little girl whose courage inspired them so much. [more inside]
A Family That Will Accept You No Matter What
"I'm a 41 year old mom of two teenage boys. My oldest is gay and has the full support of both of his parents and his brother. If your family won't accept you, in honor of the day, I will be happy to virtually adopt you if you want to come out to a family that will accept you no matter what. "
A difficult decision.
"Boxes where parents can leave an unwanted baby, common in medieval Europe, have been making a comeback over the last 10 years. Supporters say a heated box, monitored by nurses, is better for babies than abandonment on the street - but the UN says it violates the rights of the child." [more inside]


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A ribbon cutting was held Monday for the reopening of the newly renovated Alex P. Allain Branch of the St. Mary Parish Library in Franklin. Local and state officials, including Senator Bret Allain, nephew of Alex P. Allain, as well as library staff from throughout the parish, Chamber of Commerce members, library board members and other members of the community were on hand for the celebration. The $2.25 million renovation of the 58-year-old building was funded with Louisiana capital outlay money and took just over a year to complete. St. Mary Parish Library Director Julie Champagne Vidos and SMP Library Board President Cherie Laiche are pictured above cutting the ribbon. Below, members of the community enjoyed tours of the newly renovated library during the event provided by library staff.
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2) Experimentation. "IT-based experimentation is most obvious in companies like Amazon, which regularly conducts what it calls "A/B experiments," tests of its Web pages that deliver different versions of the same page at the same time to different visitors, monitoring customer experience and follow-through. Google, similarly, does 200 to 300 experiments on any given day. But it's also quite common in catalog companies, like credit card companies and direct mail companies, and even in mainstream brick and mortar companies like the casino chain Harrah's... And that, of course, is the gold standard for being able to have actionable knowledge about what's really happening in your business, what innovations are paying off and which ones aren't."
3) Sharing. "We often think of grand innovations, like the invention of the light bulb, as what drives economic growth," Brynjolfsson says in the Review article. "But equally important, and perhaps more important, are the 1,001 small innovations that regular business managers and line workers do every day at their jobs. If we can find more effective ways of sharing those micro-innovations with one another so that each person doesn't have to reinvent the wheel or reinvent the printer routine, then we're much more likely to be able to get a faster, more steady pace of economic growth--and improved competitive advantage for the companies that make that easy."
4) Replication. "However, what we also see is that business processes themselves can be replicated by leveraging information technology. A nice example is what Andrew McAfee at our Center for Digital Business described in his study of CVS. The company implemented an improved business process for prescription drug ordering at one of its pharmacies, which improved customer satisfaction significantly. But what happened next is what's really important. Mangers took that business process and embedded it in an enterprise information technology system, and then they replicated it to 4,000 other pharmacies in 4,000 other CVS stores within a year. We're seeing that not just in retailing but also in manufacturing, in banking, in industry after industry."
The MIT Sloan Management Review Q&A with Brynjolfsson is compelling in several respects (again, you can read the whole piece here) but primarily for his unabashed contentions that IT has not only been carrying its own weight for the past decade but that it's been delivering far more value and improvements and capabilities than most companies are willing or able to grasp--and that trend, he says, will continue:
"What we're going to see in the coming decade are companies whose whole culture is based on continuous improvement and experimentation--not just of specific processes, but of the entire way the company runs," Brynjolfsson says in the article. "I think this revolution can be fairly compared to the scientific revolution that happened centuries ago. Great revolutions in science have almost always been preceded by great revolutions in measurement. Management historically has not had that kind of careful measurement or experimentation. But it's time that we catch up."
Indeed--time for many companies not only to catch up but to push ahead. For CIOs, that means leveraging the full thought-leadership Brynjolfsson is advocating here: driving the idea that the IT systems and processes for which the CIOs are responsible are not just linear and mechanistic devices that can handle lots of transactions, but instead can help create ideas and insights that enhance customer engagements and then increase revenue.
As Brynjolfsson says in his concluding comment: "And when historians look back on this era, I think many people will call it not just The Great Recession, but perhaps The Great Restructuring because of the way that businesses are changing how they're working and because of the central role that IT has in driving some of those changes."


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Prepare yourselves, Hooligans. Bruno Mars is readying his track 'Treasure' to release as his third single from his album 'Unorthodox Jukebox.'
Prepare yourselves, Hooligans. Bruno Mars is readying his track 'Treasure' to release as his third single from his album 'Unorthodox Jukebox.'
Bruno Mars has notched his first Rolling Stone cover – it's about time.
Bruno Mars has a big year ahead of him thanks to the epic 'Unorthodox Jukebox' -- and he's stoked to get on the road and see fans, even though it's a little overwhelming ... and at times heartbreaking. Let him explain!
While he's celebrating his fifth No. 1 single, crooner Bruno Mars' sisters are working to get their musical career off the ground and they are making a go of it on reality TV. The ladies have scored a show with WE Tv.
Bruno Mars is No. 1 again! It's getting to be old-hat, or old-fedora, in his case. The crooner notched his fifth No. 1 hit with the heartfelt ballad 'When I Was Your Man' -- you know, the one that he got all emotional performing on 'Ellen.'
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If you had plans for May 19, do yourself a favor and cancel them immediately. Oh, you're getting married? Not anymore! Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars and Miguel will all perform at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards.
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Bruno Mars is going on tour! Okay, that's not such a huge surprise, since he's been hinting at a tour for weeks. He finally made the news official during a visit to 'Ellen,' where he revealed the title of the trek: The Moonshine Jungle World Tour.
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