Archive for October 26, 2009

How is WalMart/Ford/Morgan Stanley doing?

What does it mean when we read or hear that a firm is financially fit, growing, or flush with earnings? The terms on the surface look simple enough.
Take a look at the following link to an article in the November 2, 2009 Business Week.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_44/b4153000349169.htm
Goodwill, accounts payable and accounts receivable are terms of art. A stroke [...]

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Beautiful Speeches Provide Almost-Guaranteed Ambiguity

 

 
Finding ambiguity as a prelude* to critical thinking is fun and relatively easy as long as we examine only those materials containing arguments we dislike.
But to challenge ourselves and our students, select a political speech that you admire as an exercise in identifying ambiguity.  In my case, for example, I might choose Franklin Roosevelt’s call [...]

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