http://financeblognews.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:00:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en also by a number of private firms with connections in foreign countries, and at home, through which they place their names and credit at the disposal of people less eminent for wealth and position, who pay them a commission for the use of them This business of acceptance is done not only by the ... http://financeblognews.com/2009/01/07/this-business-of-acceptance-is-done-not-only-by-the-great-banks-but-2/ asked this question over and over again, though it seems scarcely credible that, in these days, any person of ordinary intelligence should be ignorant of the meaning of the term 'What are the Funds?' The writer has been asked this question over and over again, though it seems scarcely credible that, ... http://financeblognews.com/2009/01/06/what-are-the-funds-the-writer-has-been-4/ raised against the terrible scourge of war, can it have much force on the rare occasions when it speaks in its favour? For there is no inconsistency with the view that finance is a peacemaker, if we now acknowledge that finance may sometimes ask for the exertion of force on its behalf If, then, the ... http://financeblognews.com/2009/01/03/if-then-the-voice-of-international-finance-is-so-feeble-when-it-is-2/ their products for the raw materials and food produced by the new ones In the beginnings of international trade the older countries exchange their products for the raw materials and food produced by the new ones. Then, as emigrants from the old countries go out into the new ones, they want to be supplied ... http://financeblognews.com/2009/01/03/in-the-beginnings-of-international-trade-the-older-countries-exchange-2/ on the ground that it puts too big profits into the pockets of those who handle it Thus we arrive at the reply to those who criticize International Finance on the ground that it puts too big profits into the pockets of those who handle it. If the profits are big, it is only ... http://financeblognews.com/2009/01/03/thus-we-arrive-at-the-reply-to-those-who-criticize-international-finance-2/ absolutely committed suicide, because they thought they could never overcome their misfortune I have known men, personally, who have met with pecuniary reverses, and absolutely committed suicide, because they thought they could never overcome their misfortune. But I have known others who have met more serious financial difficulties, and have bridged them over by simple perseverance, ... http://financeblognews.com/2009/01/01/i-have-known-men-personally-who-have-met-with-pecuniary-reverses-and-2/ Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by: W. Chan Kim , Rene Mauborgne publisher: Harvard Business School Press , released: 03 February, 2005 price: $19.77 (new), $12.90 (used) http://financeblognews.com/2009/01/01/trading-abroad-in-today%e2%80%99s-competitive-world-it-is-advised-to-expand-the-business-as-much/ by law or custom, such as stamps, professional fees, duties, &c The price of some things are arbitrarily fixed by law or custom, such as stamps, professional fees, duties, &c. http://financeblognews.com/2008/12/31/the-price-of-some-things-are-arbitrarily-fixed/ made Egypt still more important After the building of the Canal, the command of this short cut to India made Egypt still more important. England bought shares in the Canal, so using finance as a means to a political object; and it did so still more effectively when it used the Egyptian default and ... http://financeblognews.com/2008/12/31/after-the-building-of-the-canal-the-command-of-this-short-cut-to-india/ The Toyota Way. The Toyota Way by: Jeffrey Liker publisher: McGraw-Hill , released: 17 December, 2003 price: $18.45 (new), $10.87 (used) http://financeblognews.com/2008/12/29/718/