Do Stockholders Really Know What’s Best?
Kraft’s bid for Cadbury — and the ensuing outcry among shareholders — is Exhibit A in the argument that the notion of shareholder democracy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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Kraft’s bid for Cadbury — and the ensuing outcry among shareholders — is Exhibit A in the argument that the notion of shareholder democracy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
From Petaluma to Peshawar, volunteer cartographers are logging details of neighborhoods near and far.
It is proving difficult to say exactly how customers’ voluntary payments for wind and solar power are actually used.
President Obama was confronted, on his first visit, with a fast-rising China more willing to say no to the U.S.
The I.R.S. announced the number as it released the criteria to get names of account holders in a UBS tax case.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 11, 2009, covering November 17, 2009.
Michael Jackson
Creed
Taylor Swift
Rod Stewart
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]