My school, ESSEC Business School, hosted Jeff Immelt last night for a Q&A session while he was visiting France trying to convince Sarkozy to allow GE to buy AREVA. The session was moderated by two highly incompetant students who asked incredibly pointless and elementary questions. One example: "What are GE's core compentencies?" What a waste of everybody's time. Luckily, Jeff was able to sidestep their French cheese and give us a few nuggets of interesting information.
I recently returned from a 5 day trip to München (Munich) for Oktoberfest. I don't remember where most of the pictures and videos on my camera came from, but I think they came sometime after the 4th liter (yes, liter) of fine Bavarian brew that I had while singing "Roll Out the Barrel". So this means between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m.
Our measure of how bad is it in this economy for a broad swath of Americans can be analyzed by asking three basic questions: Are people working, are they making any money, and do they have any money in reserves? To answer these questions and more, below are some shocking facts!