Labor Day Sentiments 2011, or, For Whom the (Job) Bell Tolls (Nov. 7, 2112 — Washington, D.C.) President Susan Wallace — riding last year’s surge in employment to 19.7% and the dollar’s continued appreciation against the Yen and Swiss Franc — easily coasted to victory at the polls yesterday in her bid for reelection to a second...Read More
They Know About Kindle, Right? One of the cheesier ads currently on display in New York subways — and it’s a crowded category, pun intended — is an ad that blares that there are “26,543 Reasons to Attend Our Community College.” So, what are 21,925 of them? The number of books in the College’s library. They do know about Kindle,...Read More
Day #14 — and Counting Does the following seem just a little absurd to anyone else? Minnesota state officials told MillerCoors that it must remove all 39 brands of its beer from shelves statewide because its $1,170 brand-label registration fee wasn’t processed before the shutdown. –“Shutdown Hits Happy Hour”; The Wall Street Journal (7/14/2011) So,...Read More
Food for Thought As millions of delighted kids (and their parents) know, the town of chewandswallow is an ordinary place except for one (not so) tiny detail — its weather: Chewandswallow’s weather came three times a day, at breakfast, lunch and dinner. But it never rained rain and it never snowed snow and it never...Read More
Recognize This House? Where: somewhere in Minneapolis. What: a classic, older home with 4 BR/3 BA and over 3,000 square feet. Features gorgeous mill work, built-in’s galore, hardwood floors, beamed ceilings — and on and on. How much: list price now $989k, down from $1.395 two-plus(!) years ago. Property taxes: a gazillion dollars per year....Read More
Why Goldman Sachs Should Hire Matt Taibbi The most the Securities and Exchange Commission could exact from serial transgressor Goldman Sachs — for what appeared to be blatant fraud that netted the firm billions — was a measly $550 million fine last Summer. By contrast, in just one day of trading (yesterday), Matt Taibbi’s latest Rolling Stone...Read More
