Given my professional experiences starting a young entrepreneurial venture in my twenties, and finishing my career as the President of a multi-billion dollar e-commerce company, I felt that I could bring a disciplined, real world set of skills to focus on the issue of youth employment.
The U.S. committed to exchange for gold dollars held by foreign central banks and Treasuries (governments) while other countries used their dollar reserves to peg (i.e. manipulate) their currencies to the dollar.
Since Cleis Press started selling digital books in 2008, its sales have grown 30%, and the publisher attributes 40% of its dollar volume to e-books.
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E-analyst Holden Forever told us to buy Dollar General because its price was above its nine-week average but had not yet broken through the upper end of its established range.
Bankers Life and Casualty Co. has been selling these low-cost, low-benefit dollar policies for a decade, but Brian E.
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In its recently held fourth quarter earnings call, Amazon disclosed that its e-book business is now a multi-billion dollar business that is growing at 70% y-o-y.
These days an executive's career--or a multibillion-dollar judgment--can turn on a single e-mail.
In an e-mail Standard Chartered tells me that its belief on the dollar amount under scrutiny has not changed.
In e-mails that later became the centerpiece of a billion-dollar copyright-infringement suit brought by Viacom against YouTube, in 2007, both Karim and Chen advocated a laissez-faire response toward copyrighted content.
While bricks-and-mortar retailers only have to decide whether to accept checks and major credit cards, e-commerce is open to all sorts of other payment possibilities--including e-checks, PayPal and transactions in currencies other than the dollar.
One alternative for China is to declare itself the buyer of last resort for gold, i.e. it will buy all that is offered for sale at their specified dollar price.
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One of the best-performing retail stocks is Dollar Tree ( DLTR), which broke through two-month resistance, line e, on Monday.
"E-Fencing, " as it's known, retrieves an average of 70 cents on the dollar, along with being harder to track.
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