Wall Street Journal Article Review #2 Microsoft Abandons ‘Stack Ranking’ Employees Article by Authors‚ Shira Ovide and Rachel Feintzeig Abstract In the article “Microsoft Abandons ‘Stack Ranking’ Employees”. Shira Ovide and Rachel Feintzeig discuss how getting rid of such a system will benefit the company. The authors cite several sources. They don’t go into too deep of detail on why CEO Mr. Ballmer decided to implement the change‚ only that before he leaves the company for good he wanted
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marked shift in the political and public consciousness regarding racial inequality in the country. BLM protesters have demonstrated on the streets of
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WSJ/Fortune Essay 2 In a Wall Street Journal article titled “Greed is for Wimps”‚ the writer talks about how the new generation‚ Generation Y‚ is becoming more socially aware. According to the article‚ this new generation of professionals wants to give back to the community. Apparently it’s not enough to be successful and make all the money in the world. These young professionals are no longer satisfied with driving expensive cars and wearing name brand clothes. An interview with one such young
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Occupy Wall Street Movement Melissa Parks Professor Galloway Business Ethics 11/2/12 The Occupy Wall Street Movement began on Sept. 17‚ 2011‚ when a diffuse group of activists began a loosely organized protest called Occupy Wall Street‚ camping out in Zuccotti Park‚ a privately owned park in New York’s financial district. The protest was to stand against corporate and government greed‚ social inequality and the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic
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Wall Street Journal Article: Fed Splits over how long to keep cash spigot open In my opinion‚ the Federal Reserve bank should not ’keep the cash spigot open’. Mr Stein‚ the president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston has stated that low rate policies help the U.S economy‚ however some institutions and individual investors may take on too much debt‚ or too many risky assets‚ resulting in the toppling of banks and other financial institutions. I have to agree with Mr. Stein. Low interest
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change the national and international debate to focus on issues such as inequality‚ corporate greed‚ political corruption‚ while also shinning lights on issues that affected the movement such as free speech‚ civil liberties and police brutality. Occupy Wall Street’s ability to tie all themes of the movement together successfully showed how the “99 percent” was being marginalised and the system unfairly stacked against them. The slogan “We are the 99 percent” demonstrated how the “1 percent” have concentrated
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Wall Street Journal Article Assignment Assignment #: 1 Title: Fed Acts to Fix Jobs Market Author(s): Jon Hilsenrath & Kristina Peterson Date of Publication: September 14‚ 2012 Executive Summary: This article goes into the Federal Reserves recent announcement to try to stimulate the sluggish economy. Ben Bernanke announced that the fed would begin buying mortgage-backed securities and keep the interest rate low for several years. To be more specific‚ he said that the Fed would buy $40 billion
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Main Street Finally Matters to Wall Street For the most part‚ the sluggish performance of the real economy since 2009 has provided a bullish backdrop for US equities‚ because the risks of the Fed having to abruptly reduce excessive monetary accommodation were commensurately reduced. Moreover‚ the struggles of Main Street were‚ rather perversely‚ often seen as good news for Wall Street‚ because a greater proportion of the rewards stemming from economic activity would flow through to corporate profits
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The novel Silence written by Japanese author Shūsako Endo and the film interpretation of it directed by Martin Scorsese‚ who is a renowned director for his other films Taxi Driver‚ Goodfellas‚ and The Wolf of Wall Street‚ are truly two works of art that transcend storytelling and the way one views things‚ in my opinion. A surface explanation of the plot of the story; is that it revolves around two Portuguese Jesuit priests‚ Rodrigues and Garupe‚ who find out that their teacher‚ who was sent to Japan
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Response to The House on Mango Street The main character in Sandra Cisneros’ novel The House on Mango Street‚ Esperanza is a complex young girl. From the outside I just pictured a young‚ Spanish girl that’s not very wealthy or amazingly beautiful. Just average. But then I got to know the character and learn that she wishes to be different from her grandmother. She was born in a year that is considered “bad luck” if female. Her grandmother was a wild woman and didn’t wish to marry. They share a
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