Couldn’t Help But Notice (022207)
According to a subscription-only Biz Weak “Upfront” snippet (8th item at link), suburban Cincinnati’s Butler County Child Support Enforcement Agency is providing three local pizza delivery companies...
View ArticleGreat Point: On Wendy’s Closing Its Original Store
Brian at One Oar points out the difference between how Wendy’s is handling sales at its original Columbus store (i.e., despite the emotional bond, they’re closing it) vs. the consistent failure of...
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So Remind Me, Because I’m Confused….
….. was it the 1980s or 1990s, or is it the current decade, that was/is the Decade of Greed? (HT e-mailer Larwyn; link appears to be free for now)
View ArticleMarkets Tanking; Tomorrow’s 4th Quarter GDP Predicted Lower
The markets are tanking today for a lot of reasons (Update: Here’s the close: Dow down 415, S&P down 50, and NASDAQ down 97; good thing I didn’t pop the cork on that “NASDAQ 2500″ champagne...
View ArticleYeah, But (FL-13 Vote Dispute Over)
It’s nice that the dispute over Florida’s 13th Congressional District has been decided (Wall Street Journal link requires subscription): Republican Vern Buchanan won his seat by a mere 369 votes over...
View ArticleHow to Repeal Sarbanes Oxley
I’ve got it: Tell Congress that the UN will only get its US dues money if it is forced to comply with SarBox itself — OR, the UN can get its money if SarBox is repealed for everyone else. (I know....
View ArticleFebruary ISM Non-Manufacturing: 54.3
That result is vs. an “expected” 57, and is down from an on-fire 59 in January. Though an expansion is an expansion, the expansion streak is at 47 months, and things are moving in the right direction,...
View ArticleADP’s February Employment Numbers: The First Release of a Hopefully Improved...
After some significant “misses” last year when compared to Uncle Sam’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that come out two days later each month, ADP has retooled its National Employment Report....
View ArticleIs a Mortgage Melt-Down Around the Corner?
If it’s going to come, this is probably about the time: Housing counselors and bankruptcy attorneys say they are seeing an increase in troubled borrowers who previously had good credit. “We have...
View ArticleJeb Bush Denied University of Florida Honorary Degree; He Really Deserves a...
In discussing this controversy, it’s important for the sake of perspective to remember what Henry Kissinger said: “University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” While the...
View ArticleAn Idea for the New York Times’ TimesSelect Service
From the Times’ February report on revenues: TimesSelect, the fee-based product on NYTimes.com that includes The Times’s distinctive columnists and extensive access to its archives, currently has...
View ArticlePositivity: Finally, a new face for young Hamoody
From Seattle (don’t miss the slideshow at the link; HT Michelle Malkin): Sunday, May 20, 2007 On the day Muhammed “Hamoody” Hussein was to get his new face, he begged for a fast ride in a wheelchair,...
View ArticleISM’s May Manufacturing Report Rocks On
Always accentuating even the slightly and/or potentially negative, here’s what AP, in an unbylined article at Biz Weak’s site, had to say about the impending Institute for Supply Management...
View ArticleCouldn’t Help But Notice (010708)
Covering further Chinese clampdowns on the Internet, and following up on 2007 predictions made at the end of 2006 by Forbes’s Rich Karlgaard and Biz Weak: ________________________________________...
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Worse Than Worthless: Market Negatively Values the New York Times Company’s...
In other words, they would have to pay you to take what is rapidly becoming Manhattan’s quaint little alternative newspaper off their hands. Yesterday, New York Times Company stock closed at $5.72....
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