Wednesday, April 18, 2012 The Bank of Canada has denied a report in the British media that the bank's governor, Mark Carney, has been approached to take over the same post at the Bank of England. BLOG POSTS | Mitch Joel: There's Nothing Free About Sharing Content The bigger consulting firms are getting all hot and bothered by the notion of social business. But the social web turns out to be an engine of word of mouth marketing unlike one we have ever seen before (no big surprise there). It may not seem that obvious, but the more you share... the more you sell. | | Jared Bernstein: What's Fair? Five (or Six) Principles of Tax Fairness The wealthy have been paying a larger share of federal income taxes not because their tax rates have gone up -- in fact, they've gone down. It's because they've been collecting the lion's share of the growth for decades. A key factor here has been the large decline in the rate of taxation on asset-based income, like capital gains, and the much increased concentration of that income among the wealthiest families. Those changes are related -- once you advantage a particular income type, you're going to see more of it. | | Ann O'Leary: Is It Over Already? The Debate About Women and Work Lasted Less Than a Week It's time to stop talking about who cares more about mothers and start putting policies in place that value women's work, no matter where it's carried out. | | David Yarnold: Big Oil's Arctic Bet: A Fool's Risk If there is a spot on Earth as sacred or as critical to the future of our wild birds as the Gulf of Mexico, it is the unspoiled Arctic. The potential harm from a BP-scale spill is almost beyond comprehension. | | Ted Harro: 7 Kinds of Smart You Need to Look for When Hiring It's easy to be imprecise about what kind of "smart" we are looking for when hiring. Asking, "is someone smart" is a simple way to screen a candidate. Just be sure that you're not going from being simple to being simplistic. Know what you need and where you need it. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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