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...conference room, where a team may have been sweating over it - Sindell recommends continually asking, "Why?" As in, "Why is this a good idea?" To each subsequent answer, he says, ask "Why?" again, until you've gotten down to the bedrock that underlies your assumptions. Then look at your idea again. Is it still breathing...
...mascot, have risen nearly 200%, to $24 per share, in less than three months. And while the stocks of all banks are up over that period, Wells Fargo's increase is more than double the rise of the KBW Bank Index. As a result, Wells' shares are starting to look pricey - and the bank is still facing tens of billions of dollars more in loan losses in the next two years...
...month ago) is the overwhelming intrusion into the private sector by Barack Obama and his auto task force at Treasury. "The day they fired the CEO of General Motors" - Rick Wagoner was dismissed by task-force co-chairman Steve Rattner in late March - "is a day we will look back on with great regret," predicts Corker, a reluctant and critical supporter of the bailout. "The government has no business making those kinds of decisions." Critics of the government's involvement maintain that bondholders have been punished, union workers coddled and laws flouted in the process. And they worry that should...
...course, such market tumult ultimately means some railroads may find the going tough. To get an idea of what competition might do to the passenger-train industry, take a look at the freight sector, which was opened up to cross-border rivalries in late 2005. In France, nine new operators that stepped in to take on SNCF's freight service have captured 11% of the market in just five years. That may not sound like much, but the smaller players are making money while the state-owned giant is not. "What's significant in this isn't the element...
...appear on the outside of buses. "That way, cars can see them. People on the sidewalks can see them, as the buses go zipping by," says Charlie Sitzes, 73, the group's spokesman. Apart from the predictable blogosphere chatter, Chicago has largely greeted the ads with a quick, curious look and then a shrug. While the media attention has drawn donations to the group from across the country, there are no plans to extend the ads' run beyond mid-June. "You don't have to shake the believer tree too hard to get a discussion going," Sitzes says, adding...