David Isenberg has written a fascinating book on entrepreneurs.  Interestingly, he does not limit an entrepreneur to the innovation of an idea, but rather to the discovery of some unexplored niche that might satisfy human needs and desires.  He also shows us why the entrepreneurial temperament is necessary for startups.  We will synopsize the book in four articles over the next week.  But ii is a great read if you have the time.  Entrepreneurs

Jobs is notorious for his gruff style, but he made Apple into a fantastically successful company.  It was no accident.  Adam Toren suggests four reasons why:  His vision helped individual creativity.  He didn’t hire dumb people.  He brought an artist’s philosophy to technology.  He snubbed the status quo. Try it.  You might succeed beyond your wildest dreams.  Jobs the Movie

What does this mean for individuals, for the state, for companies, large and small.  Will the trend continue?  We are only beginning to look at the impact of reduced budgets on citizens’ lives across the world.  Part Time Employment on the Rise

The New York Fed has long collected market information from its primary dealer trading counterparts and released these data in aggregated form to the public. Until recently, such data have only been available for broad categories of securities (for example, Treasury bills as a group) and not for specific securities. Starting with data covering the week ending April 3, 2013, the Fed now also releases aggregated primary dealer data on specific Treasury issues. In particular, the data cover dealer activity in the most recently issued Treasury notes and bonds, including both nominal securities as well as Treasury inflation-protected securities; specific issue data are not collected for bills. As with the broad security category data, the released data are aggregated across dealers and reported weekly as of the week ending Wednesday.  Michael Fleming of the New York Fed suggests what this might mean.  New Ways of Looking at Federal Reserve Data

Aneesh Srivastava, chief investment officer at IDBI Federal Life Insurance, says “For a long-term impact we need to increase the attractiveness of India as an investment destination.”  In the meanwhile,  policy makers’ moves since July to tighten cash supply, restrict currency derivatives and curb gold imports have failed to arrest the rupee’s slump to record lows as they struggle to attract capital to fund a record current account deficit. The rupee has weakened 28 percent in the past two years, the biggest tumble since the government pledged gold reserves in exchange for loans from the IMF in 1991.  India Seeks to Buoy Rupee