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Author: host Created: 2/13/2009 9:30 AM
from Engadget by Laura June Yup, all 'round the globe, economies are taking a hit, and people are losing jobs, houses and investments. So we here at Engadget are committed to trying to counter-attack a little bit of that suffering by handing out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff / companies stop sending things. Today we've got an ATI Radeon HD 4650 graphics card to offer up. Read the rules below (no skimming -- we're omniscient and can tell when you've skimmed) and get commenting! Special thanks to AMD for providing the gear! The rules: Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for "fixing" the world economy, that'd be sweet too. You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explan





“As we start 2009, it seems that the economic world has ‘re-calibrated itself’ at about 65% of where we were. One absolute constant is that there is more stability on Main Street than there is on Wall Street. What you and I do in helping REAL people value, sell and/or buy REAL businesses to provide an income for themselves and their families, has never been of more value to our clients and customers and to our marketplace than now.” Ed Pendarvis, IBBA Weekly Email Newsletter, January 2009

We thought it would be interesting to check some back issues of the Business Broker for what is a “reality check.” Read on!

Guess the year for each of the below quotes and see the answers at the end of Number 3.

Number 1 By the very end of the ___ and into the ___, the country was in a terrible recession.  For the first time, an economic downturn impacted business brokerage.  In prior downturns, buyers were out of work, and owning one’s own business was still the American Dream.  Business...

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