If you want to know what is really worrying the wealthy these days, consider the case of Bruce Smith.
Mr. Smith, CEO of Tesoro Corp., an oil refiner based in San Antonio, recently was forced to sell 251,100 shares, or 14% of his holdings to meet a margin call from Goldman Sachs Group. Chesapeake Energy CEO [...]

The American public’s mood is among the darkest in the past 40 years as voters remain pessimistic about their personal financial state and blame everyone within range for the financial crisis.
The latest Journal/NBC News poll shows voters’ economic worries boosting Sen. Barack Obama as he widens his lead over Sen. John McCain, 49% to 43%. [...]

Last night’s gig was much welcomed after a long drought in Shanghai’s experimental/ indie electronic music scene (think DJ Krush back in December 2006), judging by the large turnout ready to party on a week night. Daedelus, outlandishly dandy as ever with massive sideburns (that would do well to give Gaz Coombes a run for [...]

Watch out ladies, Chinese men are on the prowl. According to this article in Mop, one Chinese man set out to settle a score against Western men, by staking out Western women visiting Beijing during the Olympics. The man in question is from a small town in the middle of nowhere, the kind [...]

Coal has been a booming export business for China in recent years, but inadequate supplies may threaten not only foreign trade but also energy supplies at home. While the increasing global demand for the fuel has allowed both China and India to successfully tap a huge international market, the rising cost of transporting the product [...]

Coal has been a booming export business for China in recent years, but inadequate supplies may threaten not only foreign trade but also energy supplies at home. While the increasing global demand for the fuel has allowed both China and India to successfully tap a huge international market, the rising cost of transporting the product [...]

Shanghaihua, or Shanghainese, the language (or, well dialect, officially) spoken by the city’s inhabitants will now enter a new era. From having been a completely spoken language, Shanghai urbanites will now be able to write and type what they are saying.
A new software for typing in Shanghainese will be available at four websites including [...]

Some years ago I accidentally discovered that my new boss hadn’t bothered to fill out the forms to ensure I would receive a small annual bonus. He had been busy and a bonus was not guaranteed, but I had received excellent appraisals from him and had spent much of the previous six months helping him [...]

One issue that should rise to the top of the corporate agenda in 2008 is diversity — or, more specifically, how managers and leaders deal with it. Diversity has been on the agenda for decades — differences of class, gender, ethnicity, faith, culture, education and sexual orientation are well understood — but diversity has taken [...]