TV Ratings Bonanza While Jon Stewart mulls his post-Daily Show career options, here’s a brainstorm: Want to inject some excitement into 2016 national politics? Find a way to energize apathetic, notoriously low-turnout Millennials and actually get them to the polls? Run a candidate who speaks to them (and not a few Baby Boomers, Gen X’ers,...Read More
I know virtually nothing about Egyptian politics, culture or where that country goes from here. But that certainly hasn’t stopped legions of similarly ignorant bloggers from weighing in with their 2 cents. So, here’s mine, direct from Jon Stewart and last night’s “Daily Show“: 1) it’s probably not a very good idea for the Egyptian military...Read More
Is the Fed Repeating Wall Street’s Sins? Joe Nocera: At a certain point, Wall Street ran out of clients to sell [securitized debt] to. So the only way it could keep the machine going was to buy it themselves. Jon Stewart: So, they infected themselves. At the end, they themselves became vampires. [Which suggests] a...Read More
