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Regulators to decide if app-based Uber must comply with taxi rules

2013-05-15 12:48:42

The state Public Utilities Commission will schedule a formal hearing on whether to make Uber Technologies, which lets Baltimore customers hail a town car by smart phone, abide by regulations that govern taxi companies. The app-driven startup company Uber...

The sequester solution hiding in plain sight

2013-03-25 08:12:49

The budget fights in Washington, D.C., and Annapolis are looking predictably ugly this year and are shaping up along familiar lines: Do we raise taxes? Do we sink deeper in debt? Which programs do we cut — and how deep? How can we fund public...

Government favors big corporations

2013-03-07 05:15:00

We average people vote but we don't get much respect from our government these days nor from some of our representatives. The government gives our taxpayer money and tax breaks to big companies and corporations that don't pay taxes and often don't pay...

New for-hire car service combines luxury with technology

2013-02-08 00:00:00

Under the plush leather exterior of Uber Technologies Inc. beats the heart of a rebel. The app-driven startup, which began operations in Baltimore at the end of January, hopes to attract upscale customers who don't mind paying extra — a lot...

As we head for the cliff, Congress throws Corzine a lifeline

2012-11-28 12:16:00

In case anyone missed the news — and judging by the fact that there aren't angry mobs storming Washington, everyone missed the news — Congress recently absolved Jon Corzine of being criminally responsible for actions that "wiped out...

Kamenetz's risky pension bet

2012-09-25 11:40:00

Would you borrow money to pay off your mortgage and instead risk it in the market? That is in essence what Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz would like to do by floating $255 million of pension obligation bonds to fill the official hole in the...

Robert B. Reich: How Wall Street is trying to avoid U.S. oversight

2012-06-27 00:00:00

While all eyes are on the Supreme Court and Obamacare, a quieter battle is being waged against the president's other major initiative, the Dodd-Frank financial reform act. Wall Street has already watered down or delayed most of Dodd-Frank. Now it wants...

Corzine looks to be getting off easy

2012-10-25 12:00:00

I was saddened to see the small article inside the Maryland Business section of The Sun sounding the death knell for the investor lawsuit related to the implosion of MF Global and implying the futility of any further pursuit of Jon Corzine, the company'...

So many financial scandals raises the question of whether ethics classes work

2012-08-28 00:00:00

Ethics professors at business schools aren't short of teachable moments these days. This year alone, a Goldman Sachs' executive announced his resignation in The New York Times, outraged by managers' callous talk of "ripping off clients," whom they...

Romney and the doomsayers

2012-10-15 03:00:00

The U.S. unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level in about four years. Real estate foreclosure filings fell last month to the lowest number since the summer of 2007. Meanwhile, the stock market has enjoyed a pretty nice 2012, with the Dow Jones...

Baltimore lawyer pursues mortgage-related actions against banks

2012-09-22 00:00:00

Since Baltimore City Hall contended in a federal lawsuit last year that a group of international banks conspired to keep a key interest rate benchmark low, more municipalities and private companies have started to investigate potential losses because of...

London Olympic security foul-up: Blame crony government, not privatization

2012-07-26 03:00:00

It's hip these days for everyone from world leaders to the Occupy Wall Street crowd to attack free-market, limited-government capitalism as wild and in need of control because it's supposedly the cause of the world economic collapse. This is a myth. It'...

BlackBerry shares tumbled after a downgrade by Goldman Sachs.

2013-03-25 11:49:34

In 2002, Muneer Satter paid $9.5 million for this 22-room mansion in Winnetka. Now the retired Goldman Sachs senior partner paid $4.1 million through a bank trust for property next door.

2013-03-14 07:48:00

Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke Tuesday at a Goldman Sachs technology conference.

2013-02-12 07:11:51