<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Articles Inside Business</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/print/business/inside?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><description>Articles Inside Business</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Detroit Spinning Out]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11164-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11164-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Detroit Spinning Out <br> Motown is singing the blues.    General Motors  reported a $1.1 billion quarterly loss, the biggest since the dark days of 1992. The company also said it was withdrawing its forecast for the rest of the year while declining to spell out details of any rescue plan.    Ford  said its earnings dropped nearly 38 percent and warned it could post an operating loss in the current quarter. Ford is also considering a sale of its Hertz unit to shore up its balance sheet. S&#38;P lowered credit ratings for giant parts-suppliers Delphi and Visteon.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild Ride for Market Watchers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11167-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11167-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Rising oil prices, mixed earnings reports and a troubling uptick in inflation caused stock prices to whipsaw after the previous week's dramatic sell-off.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot Hand, Cold Hand]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11166-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11166-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    Thomas J. Donohue,  president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,  which was on the winning side of a Supreme Court decision that will make it harder for shareholders to successfully sue corporate management if the price of a company's stock falls.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Week Ahead]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11163-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11163-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em>April 25-29, 2005</em>    25  Monday <br>Senate Judiciary panel holds hearing on    patent system. ]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolving Door]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11160-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11160-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em> IN</em><br>   Cardinal Joseph     Ratzinger,  as chief executive of the Roman Catholic Church.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Readings]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11162-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11162-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  In his first book, "The Rise of the Creative Class," Richard Florida, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, changed the conversation in the economic development world from chasing companies to chasing people. The people Florida focuses on are young, well-educated, hip and culturally diverse, with the spark of creativity that ignites fast-growing companies and booming regional economies. Since then, Florida has moved to the District and joined the faculty of George Mason University. In his newest book,    The Flight of the Creative Class  (HarperBusiness), Florida takes on critics who accuse him of elitism, anti-corporatism and moral depravity (his finding that high concentrations of gay residents correlates with creativity did not sit well with the Christian right). And he extends his thesis globally, pointing out that the competition for top talent isn't just between Boston and Austin but includes Paris, Sydney and Bangalore, India. Florida makes an effort to wrestle with some of the downsides of the new economic competition he celebrates  --  rising income inequality, the loss of blue-collar employment and the dead-end quality of so many service-sector jobs. Some of his solutions border on the utopian, while others  --  open immigration, greater tolerance for alternative lifestyles and stepped-up public investments in R&#38;D, urban revitalization, the arts and education  --  are as logical as they are out of sync with the agenda of Republican Washington.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over-consolidation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11161-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11161-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  In defense policy, what happens to the industrial base when government purchases drop so low that only one supplier is needed to produce a category of weapons systems efficiently.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Targeting Value in Eastern Europe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11081-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11081-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Julian Mayo, whose Eastern European stock holdings have helped his mutual fund outperform all of his U.S. peers since 2000, bought shares of Turkish companies for the first time on optimism the country will join the European Union.]]></description><author> Danielle Kost</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Fund Managers Saw Market Decline Coming]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11080-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11080-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  You can't say they didn't warn us.<br> One striking aspect of the recent decline in stock prices is how many top-performing fund managers saw trouble coming.]]></description><author> Chet Currier</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Office Tattletale: A Waste of Everyone's Time]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9697-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9697-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ You noticed it one day coming into the office: The receptionist was on a personal call. The next day, you watched for it. And before you knew it, you were so worked up that she spent her time talking to friends, you wanted to tell your boss.]]></description><author> Amy Joyce</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Ways to Unleash Music]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11115-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11115-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two years ago this coming Thursday, the online music business stopped being a joke. When Apple Computer opened its iTunes Music Store for business on April 28, 2003, people finally had a song-downloads destination that provided a fair value for the money.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Rob Pegoraro</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Rob Pegoraro</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Accommodates Search History Buffs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11111-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11111-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Don't take this personally, but Google wants your Web search history.]]></description><author> Leslie Walker</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[DVDs Came Late to the High-Def TV Party]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11116-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11116-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ You can now watch high-definition television on sets as cheap as $500, with plenty of programming from a variety of channels. But HDTV is missing from one crucial corner of the home-entertainment business  --  the DVD. Companies are still developing and promoting two different, incompatible high-definition versions of the DVD, neither of which will have any consumer relevance (read: tolerable prices) until next year at the soonest.]]></description><author> Daniel Greenberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[HELP FILE]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11110-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11110-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Q   To save electricity, should I start up my computer and monitor fresh each day? I've heard that a PC uses a lot more power as it starts up. ]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVIEWS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11079-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11079-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    JADE EMPIRE, Microsoft/BioWare  <br>Jade Empire has the same basic story line as any good martial-arts adventure  --  you take on the role of a gifted student who must pursue a series of quests to restore peace and harmony to the land  --  but its action has little in...]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bonds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10831-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10831-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Bonds <br>Treasury yields rose last week after the government reported that inflation accelerated last month, reinforcing expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep raising interest rates for a while.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty Blooms in Volatile Market]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10832-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10832-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_print/business/inside</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:45:23 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Stocks <br>The stock market hit a new low for the year Wednesday and scored its biggest gain in two years Thursday  --  leaving investors confused.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>