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In order to get what I want, I have to know what I want. Duh! But I have to admit that on numerous, perhaps countless, occasions I have carefully considered all the options, scientifically selected my wants, and set out to possess them - only to find that...
Who wouldn't want energy, pep, courage, determination,and know-how? Who wouldn't want to get things done? Nobody, that's who. Moxie, truth be told, ought to have almost universal appeal....
Have I dreamed myself a Market opportunity instead of actually finding one? Does my response to the perceived Market need really constitute Magic? Or is it just a me-too? Which of my fundamental assumptions carries the lowest confidence factor? What simple tweak in my plan would...
Serious success demands some bleeding, I think. Or is it blood, sweat, and tears? (The quotation, by the way, is really "...blood, tears, toil, and sweat." Thank you, Teddy Roosevelt.) Brain, ink, and bullshit won't cut it. Remember that - whether you are writing a business plan,...
If your start-up plan includes exceptional Magic, you have a fighting chance for survival. But simple possession of Magic does not put your wizardry into action. It must be released and directed by means of carefully crafted spells and incantations. Powerful Messages are always required....
The Century of the Entrepreneur
The 21st century entrepreneur can design and produce sophisticated products as quickly and cheaply as a large company, communicate with clients instantly, anywhere, and transport goods in small quantities on a global scale, all at a lower relative personal risk than ever before....
The Bing Blog
It’s very helpful to have a 2,200-page report, more than a year later, on what we knew already. To wit: Dick Fuld! You’re a BAD BOY! Former Lehman executives? Your behavior ”ranged from serious but non-culpable errors of business judgment to actionable balance sheet manipulation.” Naughty, naughty business executives! I seriously hope that...
Illiterate spamming scamster of the day
I get a lot of crud in my inbox, and I’m sure you do too. But every now and then you see a new generation of sludge beginning to creep in, evidence that somebody in the world, probably Nigeria, is on the job re-thinking the technology of scamming. This morning,...
I want to be acquired by Mark Zuckerberg
I just spent a couple of days in San Francisco, the land of the nine-digit idea. Every town has its prevailing topic of conversation. In Los Angeles, it’s Julia and Tom and Ari and who’s in turnaround and who just dumped their agency to go with another agency another guy just...
As some of you may know, I am very careful about how I Twitter. I occupy my space, but don’t do MySpace. And I am not particularly LinkedIn, although I did make the mistake of signing up for it once. Since then, I am importuned daily by people who want me...
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New banking rules we’d like to see
News comes today that legislators are close to hammering out new rules for the banking industry. It couldn’t come a moment too soon. There needs to be a lot of change in the banking business, because frankly, my bank pretty much blows and I’m sure yours does too. In anticipation...
Zachary Karabell Blog
Last week, I published an essay in Time http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1969745,00.html magazine about debt, arguing that our current preoccupation with the federal deficit and with debt in general is a dangerous distraction from the real issues: namely our inability to invest and spend wisely to create the economy of the future. The problem...
This week, the Chinese government announced that China’s economy had expanded by a stronger-than-anticipated 10.7 percent in the last quarter of 2009 and that it had grown 8.7 percent for the entire year. This news, however, was not greeted with relief but with the skepticism that has typically met such...
The U.S. and China - The Defining Issue of Our Day
In his current Asian trip, President Obama visits Japan, then addresses a forum of leaders in Singapore, and eventually ends up in Seoul to discuss nukes and North Korea. But make no mistake, the axis of this week is the time Obama will spend in China, which has catapulted to...
Krugman is wrong: Why China won’t revalue
For years, Americans have been fulminating about China and its policy toward currency. While many of the debates are technical and laden with econo-speak, they boil down to the simple conviction that China is unfairly manipulating its currency to keep it undervalued against the dollar. The result is to give...
Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy
The economic relationship between China and the United States is the defining issue of our day. While debates over health care are vital to American society, and while challenges ranging from Iran to Afghanistan to North Korea are real, nothing will determine the arc of the coming decades - or...
The winds are still blowing east
While Washington is glued to the drama over health care, over the past few days, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been in Beijing meeting with Chinese leaders including Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao. In a series of communiqués, they celebrated the “strategic partnership” between the two countries...
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Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 1-10-2010
Whoo-eey! [We] won the Grand Slam, and the Super Bowl, and the World Cup! Our science standards are light years ahead of any other state when it comes to challenging evolution! -David McElroy, the head of Texas State Board of Education;fellow board member David Bradley has this to say in the...
This Week in Tweets for 2009-12-26
@felixsalmon of course UPS packages arrive. Regretting not ponying up for UPS on one large box of presents now 4 days late shipped 3day. in reply to felixsalmon #...
Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 12-20-2009
TE OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST. -roughly translated: “They Can Kill You, But the Legalities of Eating You Are Quite a Bit Dicier” Past Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing...
This Week in Tweets for 2009-12-19
Awesome: Fake steve talks to ATT CEO. http://bit.ly/5QzdfB # Hail to the public sector. http://bit.ly/77z0pK # @felixsalmon I fail to see any destroying happening in that article. in reply to felixsalmon # Gladiator fight, one guy is blindfolded and has a dagger, other can see but has no dagger. Who wins and...
Dear LoS: To Dag or Not To Dag
Dear LoS, I work for a bank in London. Or rather, I had been working for a bank in London, and now, I have to fight for not only my job, but my life. You see, after the recent bumper bonus tax, my firm is downsizing its staffing levels...
Swine flu looks tame compared to the current disease sweeping the nation. Tiger Syndrome is the newest, most deadly, and fastest spreading epidemic seen to date. It appears to mainly affect women who date or are married to men who travel for work. The symptoms are grotesque: hallucinatory paranoia, erratic...
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A taxing disclosure at Fortune Brands …
It’s a rare day when corporate America cites the Internal Revenue Service as a bastion of restraint and sober perspective — especially when it comes to personal income. Yet there on page 35 of the proxy filed by consumer-products conglomerate Fortune Brands Inc. (FO) is a table laying out the Form...
I was in Chicago earlier this week working on some integration issues with the folks at Morningstar, but found time to tape this video on proxy season which is going on right now. Here’s a link....
Boeing’s million-plus consultant…
Last August, Boeing (BA) announced a management reshuffling that included the departure of Scott Carson, who had been running the company’s Commercial Airplanes unit. The release, which was dated Aug. 31 — when few people were likely paying attention, given how sleepy things are at the end of August —...
Sonic execs drive up auto perks …
It’s been a rocky couple of years for the car industry, which still employs hundreds of thousands of Americans, and now the public owns hefty chunks of General Motors and Chrysler. So we wouldn’t be surprised if more than a few corporate boards see it as patriotic to support automakers. But...
Leucadia Exec Gets Big Pay to Stay…
The Change in Control terms for executives at Leucadia National Corp. (LUK) were already generous, but for Vice President Justin R. Wheeler, they just got a lot better. Late last Friday afternoon, Leucadia filed this 8-K and an attached letter agreement to set out Wheeler’s new deal with the company. According...
The paper shuffle at Hess Corp…
One of the challenges of reading annual reports is sifting through the massive dump of exhibits and figuring out what has been filed previously and what hasn’t. And despite what you’re probably thinking, that work isn’t always as glamorous as it sounds. Occasionally, though, the scrutiny pays off, as it...
Grasping Reality with All Six Feet
Issuu: 50 Best Websites 2009 Sam Stein: Hank Paulson: John McCain Gave Me Anxious Days And Hours Rufus F.: Aeschylus, “The Persians” & war and blasphemy Bruce Bartlett: America's Foreign-Owned National Debt Raj Chetty Interviewed by Romesh Vaitilingam: Public finance: theory, evidence and policy App-etizers, Mar. 12: 50,000 iPads Sold...
Visuals for the current version of my state-of-the-economy talk......
Ben Armbruster writes: >Think Progress: Sen. Tom Udall Calls Reid’s Promise To ‘Take A Look At The Filibuster’ A ‘Warning Shot’ To Republicans: Motivated by unprecedented GOP obstruction this year in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) recently announced a proposal to revamp the Senate’s filibuster rules at the...
A motto to keep in mind should you be forced by dire necessity to spend some of saturday afternoon in the Diablo Foods parking lot......
Not Worth Reading #7: Katherine Seelye of the New York Times (March 13, 2010)
Duncan Black comments: >Eschaton: **It's Always Good News For Newt Gingrich:** Another puff piece on the man who will never hold elected office again. Why? Beacuse THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE went to see him. Our media is so dumb....
Via Mark Thoma, Janet Yellen: >Economist's View: I want to focus my remarks today on another longer-term issue, namely, the housing market ... The question is: ...Is there a house-price "bubble" that might collapse, and if so, what would that mean for the U.S. economy?... [A] bubble means that the...
All Things Digital
Weekend Update 03.13.10–North by Northwest Edition [Digital Daily]
With virtually every twittery, techie media fanboy and girl swarming all over the greater Austin area this week, it feels a little empty in the Bay Area. The sun is shining, but Dolores park is just a little emptier. There are fewer fixed-gear bikes darting between cars around the Mission...
Chatroulette Dude: I Don't Want to Sell. But I'd Like Google to Pay. [MediaMemo]
Meet Andrey Ternovskiy, who built the voyeur/chat site everyone loves to talk about. He's too young for AdWords, but old enough to play hard to get with investors....
Apple's Cook Gets $22 Million Bonus [Voices]
Apple Inc. awarded Chief Operating Officer Timothy Cook a cash-and-stock bonus worth about $22 million for filling in while Steve Jobs, the consumer electronics giant's chief executive, was on medical leave....
Big at the SXSW Interactive Fest: Location, Location, Location [Voices]
The South by Southwest Interactive festival starts today in Austin, and it looks as though the buzz is all about location-based services. Twitter, which got a lot of attention at SXSW three years ago, officially added an option to its site that allows users to share their location in their tweets....
Hunch Gets It Right, Adds a $10 Million Series B Round Led by Khosla Ventures [MediaMemo]
The crowdsourced recommendations site led by Caterina Fake and Chris Dixon gets a big vote of confidence from a high-profile investor....
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)...
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WaMu settles with JPMorgan, FDIC
Washington Mutual has tentatively resolved disputes with JPMorgan Chase and the FDIC over some $4 billion at issue in the bank holding company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a WaMu attorney said Friday....
Affluent California county sues Toyota
Southern California prosecutors filed the first U.S. consumer protection lawsuit against Toyota Friday, claiming it had engaged in "fraud" by hiding evidence of dangerous vehicle defects....
Stocks end mixed after uneven economic data
Mixed economic reports held the stock market to only modest moves Friday but gains for the week were strong....
Mortgage relief aid reaches few homeowners
Hundreds of thousands of homeowners are in limbo waiting to find out if they will be accepted for the Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program....
Young veterans returning home to few jobs
The unemployment rate last year for young Iraq and Afghanistan veterans hit 21.1 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, reflecting a tough obstacle combat veterans face....
Policy ‘dove’ may be tapped for Fed vice chair
President Barack Obama wants to nominate Janet Yellen, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, to take over as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve....
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Cnooc Said to Plan $3 Billion Acquisition of Bridas (Update1)
Cnooc Ltd., China’s biggest offshore oil explorer, plans to buy Argentina’s Bridas Group from Carlos Bulgheroni for more than $3 billion, according to two people familiar with the discussions....
Wen Rebuffs Yuan Calls, Is ‘Worried’ About Dollar (Update1)
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao rebuffed calls for the yuan to appreciate and sought assurances that the U.S. will protect the value of China’s dollar assets....
Thai Protesters Mass to Oust Premier, Pledge Marches (Update2)
Thai anti-government protesters gathered in Bangkok to pressure Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to call an election, and may march throughout the capital if he doesn’t step down by noon tomorrow....
China Higher-Than-Expected CPI Hasn’t Altered Policy (Update1)
China’s higher-than-expected inflation data hasn’t altered the central bank’s policy plans, bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said today....
Storms Probably Hurt Production, Housing: U.S. Economy Preview
Blizzards on the East Coast and harsh weather in other parts of the U.S. probably impeded manufacturing and construction in February, representing a temporary setback to the recovery, economists said before reports this week....
The Aleph Blog
My piece on bank reform will have to delay until Monday evening. I am still working on it. Tonight’s piece is on entitlements and pensions globally and locally. I asked recently if anyone had data on other countries of the world to analyze where other countries were...
A Few Notes From the Fordham Conference
I will have a more comprehensive post tomorrow on my thoughts on bank regulation, but I will offer a few thoughts here. One thing I found interesting at the conference was what did not get much play in terms of what helped to create the crisis. It was fascinating that no...
At the Fordham Conference: Time for a New Antitrust? False Assumptions
Carl Felsenfeld: Do we know what the problem is? What are we trying to solve? Antitrust does not deal with Citigroup/Travelers, it should deal with Bank of America/Fleet, Wells Fargo/Norwest. But it didn’t deal with those bank acquisitions. The regulators were out to lunch. Jesse Markham: Antitrust can only do so...
At the Fordham Conference: Creative Ideas for Limiting Bank Risk 2
Simon Johnson’s lunch talk was pretty standard: there is no social benefit to banks being larger than $100 billion in assets. Major banks are too politically powerful, but they should be fought the same way Teddy Roosevelt did with JP Morgan and trustbusting. Simon thinks that political opinion is shifting...
At the Fordham Conference: Creative Ideas for Limiting Bank Risk
Cornelius Hurley argues that banks are implicitly and explicitly subsidized, and that they need to return the subsidy. Dean Baker argues for a transfer tax, and weakening the political power of financial institutions. Really tangential to the point of the conference. I’m not sure it would help or hurt too much. ...
At the Fordham Conference: Where We Are and How We Got There
First panel deals with James Kwak: Funding costs were overly low at the major banks. Alleges too big to fail, but big banks were highly rated. My experience is that small banks equally good as large banks have much higher fundung costs. Richard Carnell: hits the nail on the head — Regulators...
Investment Postcards from Cape Town
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Video feast: Make Markets Be Markets
The Roosevelt Institute recently hosted an investment conference, "Make Markets Be Markets", in New York City. All the presentations are posted on Vimeo, icluding speakers such as George Soros, Joseph Stiglitz, Simon Johnson, Jim Chanos and Elizabeth Warren. Click through if you have some spare time over the weekend....
Picture du Jour: Chinese construction – boom or bubble?
It would not take too much guessing to figure out where the bulk of the world's construction activity is taking place. Of course, it is in China, but who would have thought global construction would decline from a year-on-year rate of almost 20% to close to zero once China is...
Lehman Brothers, the next Enron?
Dylan Ratigan talks with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer about the release of a 2,200 page report laying out a potential criminal case against Lehman Brothers....
National debt – maxing out the card!
View the national debt of the US as a credit card statement ......
Marshall Auerback: Fighting deficit hysteria
Are deficit hawks right about the dangers of mounting government debt? Or, is pursuing fiscal sustainability a recipe for continuing the economy's downward spiral? BNN speaks to Marshall Auerback, fund manager, RAB Capital....
Portfolio.com: Market Movers
The Times' Rorshach Geithner Story
The New York Times has provided a handy blogging point for today in the form of a long piece on the relationships Tim Geithner formed while head of the New York Fed. The story is based in part on the results of a Times FOIA request, for the contents of...
There are many more pandemic threats than there are pandemics, and so I hope and expect that swine flu will run its course fairly quickly and without too much damage being done. Still, it's difficult to overstate how bad the timing is here. Not that there's ever a good time...
Matt Yglesias contrasts the fates of the Flint, Michigan and Baltimore, Maryland and the respective policies those fates imply. Where Flint is a declining city in a declining region, which needs help managing its decline, Baltimore is a struggling city in a prosperous region, which needs a little boost to...
One of the stories that was circulating through CNN's news coverage this weekend (but which may have now been crowded out by swine flu, on which more later), was a major bust of counterfeit goods in Brooklyn, New York. Authorities had discovered a storage center with room after room full...
Justin Fox takes a crack at listing all the possible reasons that the administration might be following its current banking strategy (and offers me a kind welcome; thanks Justin!). He says he's leaning toward the following two explanations:- It's the proper course of action, because most banks will be able...
Notes From a Press Conference Naif
I was in attendance at Tim Geithner's press conference yesterday, at which he spoke briefly about the G7 Ministers meeting and answered a few questions. I hope it isn't too damaging to my credibility as an economics writer to say it was the first time I saw the secretary in...
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
Zacks.com submits: Sanofi-Aventis (SNY) recently announced that it has completed the acquisition of Chattem Inc. This acquisition will help strengthen Sanofi’s presence in the US consumer health care market, which represents 25% of the current worldwide market.Chattem is an established player in the consumer health care...
Will Chinese Inflation Hike Oil and Gold Prices?
Peter Cooper submits: The Middle East could be enjoying another oil price boom much sooner than expected as Chinese inflation gathers pace after one of the biggest experiments in loose monetary policy in history. Once an exporter of deflation to the rest-of-the-world, a nasty side-effect of the record stimulus plan...
Africa ETFs: 5 Plays for the Continent's Growing Economies
Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: Africa may host the fastest growing economies in the emerging market world. While it’s also one of the most risky, there’s no need to sit on the sidelines. An ever-widening range of exchange traded funds (ETFs) that span the risk spectrum are appearing on the...
Bank Overdraft Charges, Airline Delays: Putting Profits Over People
Bob Mcteer submits: If they had enough bathrooms and cool air circulating, three hours delay in an airplane on the tarmac wouldn’t be so bad. But they don’t, and it’s bad. Real bad. Somebody should do something. Somebody should also do something about those big bad banks charging overdraft fees...
The Legacy of the Economic Crisis
Donald Marron submits:In its recent Going for Growth report, the OECD concludes that the economic and financial crisis will leave an unwelcome legacy: a permanent reduction in economic activity. This loss averages about 3% of potential GDP across the 20 member countries for which the OECD...
U.S. Options Exchange CBOE Files for IPO
Renaissance Capital IPO Research submits: The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the first and one of the world's largest options exchanges, filed on Thursday with the SEC to raise up to $300 million in an initial public offering. The exchange, which filed...
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How Patrick Byrne Can Apologize to a Whistleblower
The Going Concern blog today has an amusing item describing how Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne can apologize to Sam Antar--the convicted felon and former Crazy Eddie scam mastermind whose sharp analysis of Overstock.com's fraudulent financials has been vindicated.The accounting blog has three suggestions, among them:Overstock.com gift cards – Nothing says...
Another Layoff at BusinessWeek
I was intrigued by the reports from Keith Kelly and Jeff Bercovici today that another layoff is imminent at the already depleted staff of BusinessWeek.Keith says BW, which was hit by a catastrophic 30% decline in ad pages last year, "is bracing for a sweeping restructuring that will see many...
"No One Would Listen" to Harry Markopolos -- Including the Media
Harry Markopolos's book No One Would Listen has zoomed to No. 19 at Amazon.com and I can see why: it's a fast-paced thriller that is clearly the best book so far on the Bernie Madoff scandal. Markopolos sheds new light on how the SEC screwed up its Madoff probe--and...
The SEC Botches Decade-Long Amex Probe
My Portfolio.com column today examines one of the longest-running legal disputes in SEC history--a ten-year-long struggle to decide how weak a penalty to impose on the American Stock Exchange and its CEO, Salvatore Sodano.The SEC found in 2000 that the Amex had done an awful job of keeping its floor...
Medifast, Meet Barbra Streisand
Ms. Streisand, I'd like you to meet another dumb lawsuit plaintiffIn an item the other day I described how a lawyer for Shaquille O'Neal, suitably named "Roach," had sent a threatening "cease and desist" letter to blogger Tim Sykes, demanding that Tim remove all refrences to a company tied in...
More Clooney, less CostanzaOK, I'll admit it. I have fantasies about Tim Geithner. I describe them in the New York Observer, on the stands today.I imagine that we are in a different world, a movie world. Instead of the George Costanza character we have before us, making excuses, we have...
CrossingWallStreet.com
If you like finding really off-the-radar stocks, you might want to check out little Seneca Foods (SENEA). This is a small food company based in upstate New York. The company was started in 1959 by Arthur Wolcott who still serves as Chairman of the Board. I haven’t drilled down on...
Looking at the TIPS Yield Curve
Here's the current yield curve of Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, which means you get the yield plus the CPI. Looking at this, I can't help but think it's the Treasury equivalent of the Internet bubble from 10 years ago. I'm not a bond investor but I won't even think of investing in...
The Buy List Hits an All-Time High
Huzzah! The Bear Market is over for us! After more than two years, the Crossing Wall Street Buy List made a new all-time high today. The combined record of the Buy Lists going back to 2006 has made a capital gain of 17.65% which takes out our previous high of 17.46%...
Looking to build a quick-and-easy index fund? Of all the stocks in the Dow, United Technologies (UTX) has had the strongest daily correlation with the S&P 500 going back to the beginning of 2005. Each day’s UTX gain or loss has a 69.7% correlation with the S&P 500. If add in...
Don’t Give Me the Facts, Give Me Something I Can Understand
Here’s the opening of a fascinating article on cognitive fluency from the Boston Globe: Imagine that your stockbroker - or the friend who’s always giving you stock tips - called and told you he had come up with a new investment strategy. Price-to-earnings ratios, debt levels, management, competition, what the company...
Projections for Nicholas Financial
This chart below is perhaps the clearest reason why I find Nicholas Financial (NICK) such a compelling buy right now. This shows the company’s pre-tax profit (in millions) along with the provision for credit losses. What you see is just how damaging the credit loss provisions have been. I think it’s...
Angry Bear
'Republican' resurgence comes from shift in 65-85 year old group
American Conservative Magazine considers who is feeling the the new anger against 'liberals' from the Feb.17 Mt. Vernon statement of the Conservative statement of principles: One of the things that many people have noticed since the release of Mount Vernon statement on Wednesday is the sharp contrast between the youth of...
O.K., let's just think about this budget thing for a while, Part I
To be sure, the U.S. government deficit is shocking; but it's not anymore shocking than the recession through which we have all lived. Tax receipts plummeted (see the second chart from this post) and spending on cyclical social programs (like unemployment benefits) is surging. This adds up to an exponentially...
Since we are on the topic of men, business, and regulations, Yves Smith points us to a relevent avenue for thought: Indefensible Men. ...
Topical thread: Cash, checks, plastic, and online
On the right is a poll put up by the San Francisco FED that I translated to here. I personally use cash and checks to monitor my emotional response to spending, which can become numb using all credit card purchases. Online payments work if not automatic. Then again, I...
Topical thread: Regulators could have prevented AIG collapse?
Rdan here...Our loyal opposition Reader Sammy sends along this in your face question: Regulators could have prevented AIG collapse. Really? Say what you want about AIG, and it is pretty much open season on them, but just prior to their collapse, AIG was: 1) The largest insurance company in...
Robert WaldmannJonathan Chait has a very good article on Paul Ryan in The New Republic. In it he displays striking confusion on simple arithmetic. It's worth keeping in mind that the current tax system in this country is only very slightly progressive. State and local taxes are regressive,...
NYT > Business
Mortgages: Even High-Score Borrowers at Risk of Mortgage Default
A high credit score won’t necessarily insulate borrowers from the home-foreclosure crisis, according to a new study from FICO. ...
No Deal on ABC Is Reached by Disney and Cablevision
The Walt Disney Company pulled its ABC station from Cablevision, potentially leaving about three million cable customers in the New York area without access to the Academy Awards. ...
Mortgages: Help for First-Time Buyers
The State of New York Mortgage Agency, or Sonyma, is offering 30-year affordable-housing loans at 4.75 percent. ...
After Fumble, Microsoft Redoes Phone Software
Microsoft’s new mobile phone software, coming at the end of this year, offers “tiles” instead of icons, and has “hubs” for similarly themed functions. ...
Despite Power Shortages, Chile’s Biggest Copper Mines Begin Resuming Operations
Some analysts feared that power supply disruptions could lead to higher prices for copper. ...
Questions For Harry Markopolos: Math Is Hard
The Madoff whistle-blower talks about what the S.E.C. doesn’t understand about money. ...
Personal finance advice, ideas - Money Magazine
The three-figure kitchen makeover
Living with an undersize, outdated kitchen? If so, a sledgehammer may feel like the only solution. But these days you're probably not up for spending the $50,000 or more -- maybe much more -- it would cost to demolish the space and build a new state-of-the-art room from scratch....
Living on a freelancer's budget
Chris and Janie Peterson have an enviable life. They own a lovely 3½-bedroom ranch house just outside Minneapolis and have work schedules flexible enough to allow them lots of time with their children, Reece, 10, Cecily, 9, and Georgio, 7....
The bright spot of the dreary 2009 economy: savings for everyone....
Photographer friends tell me that if you're picking out a point-and-shoot camera you shouldn't focus much on the megapixels. That measure of a camera's resolution is hyped by manufacturers, but most cameras on the market give you all the pixels you'll need....
3 ways to save money this spring
1. Book a sweet getaway...
In January 2009, when Mary Schapiro took over the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency was the butt of jokes. Though the SEC's whole purpose is to police the securities industry, it had missed massive abuses such as Bernie Madoff's decades-long Ponzi scheme and Allen Stanford's alleged $8 billion scam....