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  Top 10 Industry Donors to Congressional Deficit Panel Members

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  August 15, 2011

  Political contributions tracker MapLight analyzes campaign contributions to the 12 members of the 'Super Committee' that Congress appointed to reduce the nation's debt.

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  Look at GOP Candidates; Markowitz Defends MPT; 10 Team Building Mistakes: August Research—Slideshow

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  August 10, 2011

  Author and analyst Nicole Gelinas laments the absence of meaningful debate on the one key issue in today’s economy: the houses of debt Americans are living in. Plus, practical advice on teambuilding, storyselling and more...

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  10 Best Investments for a Default or Downgrade

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  July 29, 2011

  Municipal investments are at risk of default, money markets have broken the buck and now the U.S. Government is at threat of a downgrade—where in the world can investors find safety?

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  The Presenter as Mentor

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  July 26, 2011

  Drive your seminar attendees to action, not distraction — become a better storyteller. Indeed, two of the most powerful presentations in history, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, used storytelling as a structural device.

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  Japan Quake: Nuclear Disaster Hits Power Stocks

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  March 17, 2011

  The unexpected magnitude of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has led to a substantial reevaluation around the world of the safety of nuclear power, and has taken a toll on the values of companies engaged in the business.

• The Birth of Hedge Funds

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  November 1, 2010

  Alfred Winslow Jones was a financial journalist before he became a wildly successful investor who would be known as the father of the hedge fund...

• What Goes Around Comes Around

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  August 1, 2010

  Bob Burg started out broadcasting the news on radio and television. But it is the information he has imparted for 18 years now as a...

• Before Obama Speech, American Energy Innovation Council Pushes Agenda

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  June 15, 2010

  With President Obama set to address the Gulf oil spill, cap and trade legislation, and alternative energy sources in a speech to the nation Tuesday night, June 15, the country's top business leaders want it known they have ideas of their own.

• Land of Milk and Money

  By Alexei Bayer  |  March 1, 2010

  In their recent book, Start-Up Nation, Dan Senor and Saul Singer argue that one of the main reasons Israel has had such success in starting...

• THE ETF EXPERT: Assets Pouring into Water ETFs

  By Vaughan Scully, Standard & Poor's  |  November 3, 2009

  Who would not want to own companies that produce or distribute an item that is essential for human life, exists in limited quantities, and has no known substitutes?