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Search results for "technology boom" ...
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Green Energy Going Red
In this series of original and exclusive investigations, CBS documented the fate of $90 billion dollars in green energy stimulus tax spending and dug in to find out why it did not produced the promised results: a boom in green energy technology and products accompanied by a burst in employment. In Solar Scorching, we identified eleven green energy companies besides Solyndra that together got billions of tax dollars, only to declare bankruptcy or suffer other serious financial issues. Since our initial report, the number of failures has risen dramatically. CBS exposed the fact that the government secretly knew what a poor investment some of these companies were, even before it committed taxpayer billions. We obtained exclusive documents showing one project had confidentially been rated as a “junk bond,” but the government committed $43 million tax dollars anyway. It went bankrupt.
Tags: Taxes; green energy; Solyndra; taxpayers
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The Radiation Boom
The reporter provides insight into the medical community's inadequate safety protections. Within these hospitals, the reporter documents the number of patients burned by the radiation of new machines, little government oversight,poorly trained personnel, and outdated equipment.
Tags: radiation; hospital; technology; FDA; overdoses
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Nuclear Underground
The four part series investigated the thriving trade in dual-use technology, those products that can be used for civilian purposes as well as in nuclear applications. The research goes into the booming black market in nuclear materials out of post-apartheid South Africa.
Tags: black market; nuclear materials; rogue nations; dual use technology; nuclear applications
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Bull! A history of the boom and bust, 1982-2004
This book examines the Great Bull Market of 1982-1999 and the fallout that followed. Overpriced stocks sucked capital out of the U.S. economy. Billions of dollars that could have been invested in needed projects such as power plants and oil refineries were squandered on massive overinvestment in the technology sector. Individual investors caught up in the mania sacrificed their retirement nest egg or children's college fund for the hyped promises of the stock market -- gambling with money that they could ill afford to lose.
Tags: stock market; bull market; Great Bull Market; investing; stocks; 401 (k); investments
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In the Money: Colorado's New Wealth
The Rocky Mountain News' three-part series that looks at Colorado's new dot-com millionaires and the effect their presence has had in the state.
Tags: development; Denver; wealth; Colorado; millionaires; dot-com millionaires; technology boom; personal income
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IPO to REPO: Here's One Industry In Silicon Valley That's Booming These Days
The Wall Street Journal reveals that "car repossessors score big by 'popping' the Porsches of fallen dot-commers." The story cites a private company's estimation that automotive repossessions have tripled in 2000, because many tech workers can no longer afford expensive cars. The reporter describes how repo men use a "few tricks for dealing with the young and still-affluent-at heart" in order to avoid traumatizing them.
Tags: jobs; technology; dot-coms; bankruptcy; cars; parking; lawyers; finance
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The Saga of Lernout & Hauspie
The Street.com investigates "accounting and other irregularities and misstatements at Lernout & Hauspie, a Belgian maker of speech-recogniton software that counted Microsoft and Intel among its largest investors." The stories detail the period of soaring stock price of the Belgian company, although at the same the firm has filed only the minimum required financials with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The investigation shows that the story about Lernout's booming sales has been fake. The columnist reveals "it wasn't until Lernout filed 10-Qs and 10-Ks [annual and quarterly reports] that the full magnitude of its troubles became clearly evident."
Tags: diskette; SEC; stock; sales; technology; financial reports; Microsoft; Intel
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The Most Expensive Race
"Something crazy is happening in American politics. It is compounded of competitiveness, consultant specialization, a corrupted campaign-finance system, the maturation of polling and advertising technology and a surfeit of careless contributions in a booming economy." The most expensive congressional race of 2000 is between GOP incumbent James Rogan and Democratic State Senator Adam Stiff. The big story here may not be the contributions to the campaigns, but all the money spent on professional political fundraisers. L.A. politico Big Joe Cerrell calls this particular race "the consultant full employment act."
Tags: PAC; fundraising; U.S. House of Representatives; direct mail; issue advocacy; National Republican Congressional Committee; Armenians; campaign finance; political consultants
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The Border
Business Week explores the booming economy of the U.S.-Mexico border, the problems and benefits of the trade agreement that created this boom, and who has been most affected.
Tags: NAFTA; Third World; free trade; poverty; global economy; manufacturing; assembly plants; Tijuana Sony; Samsung; Matsushita; Lucent Technologies; pollution; electronics
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Although corporate profits have fattened and the stock market has soared, the average American family has not benefited from the boom. U.S. News & World Report investigates how in America's new economy, with industrial workers' wages frozen and hundreds of job layoffs, the gap between rich and poor is growing steadily, and people in the middle are going nowhere. (Jan. 22, 1996)
Tags: Roberts Boroughs Workers Take it on the Chin Winter of Discontent Layoffs Technology 10 pgs.