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Pakistan markets $750m bonds - Khalid Mustafa

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday launched its Eurobond of $750 million for next 10 years in the international market at the interest rate of 6.875 per cent. The country received terrific subscription of the issue valuing $3.538 billion from the investors’ base in the global market, based on B+ rating of the country, but the government [...]

Remove Spoke.com From the Internet

I stumbled on this website the other day, Spoke.com, while checking the web logs. Spoke.com seems to have lifted my profile and contact information from various networking and websites and listed it on their website as “validated” profile and contact information. I have a couple of problems with this.
First, I have never signed [...]

The Elite Circle of $1 CEOs - Business Week

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
-Upton Sinclair
Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Eric Schmidt are just two of the CEOs who work for a buck. Why do top executives give up their salaries?
by Moira Herbst
Richard Kinder, chief executive of Houston energy transportation and [...]

The Penalty of Leadership

Although the advertisement only ran once, I don’t think that anyone who read it the first time knew what they were part of. On the 2nd of January, 1915, The Saturday Evening Post ran a copy of “The Penalty of Leadership,” which even today holds great knowledge and advice for us. To give you [...]