CNBC's Maria Bartiromo makes a million-dollars a year to be this fanatically thick-headed. Roll tape:Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
"Crowne Village Apts is now following you on Twitter!"
Isn't it funny how diagrams can convey a certain legitimacy, albeit fleeting, to just about anything? Via j-walk comes this procedural breakdown for effectively petitioning the Chief Spiritual Officer in the sky...
Are we supposed to believe that Jake DeSantis knew nothing about Joe Cassano's CDS deals? If your boss and the top guys in your firm were all making a killing selling anything' [...]
Attended John Sarvay's fun and encouraging Conversation Week group last nite at UR's new downtown building. At once, it was a breath of fresh air and also completely unsurprising: We all know that there's no lack of love nor commitment to Richmond's current and [...]
Founded in 1967, Richmond's venerable S&K Menswear joins the list (CFO Mag) of meltdown victims. But was it the meltdown? Maybe it goes back much further to an inflection point they missed, say, 10 years after their founding.
All the dev team had after month of effort was a black triangle [...]
The chairman and chief executive of the bankrupt LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. is stepping down and the Henrico County-based company will [...]
Is Twitter really a 21st Century hive-mind network, or just the same old daisy chain? Via firstmonday, some Hewlett Packard researchers find that tweeters may be densely packed, but they ain't no flock....OUR financial catastrophe, like Bernard Madoff’s pyramid scheme, required all sorts of important, plugged-in people to [...]
What do detectives and hospitals have in common?
Both need to find people who don't necessarily want to be found.
That's why a Maple Grove company that used to cater to private investigators and collection agencies has remade itself for the health care industry as [...]
After a very [...]
officials close to the transition team privately say that Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize winning physicist, appears to be increasingly on track to become energy secretary.A Chinese-American, Chu is a professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at the University of California-Berkeley and has been the [...]
Barry Diller: “It’s not that you don’t want to earn as much money as you can — it is your obligation, of course — but companies have obligations beyond that and they certainly have obligations beyond that at certain times, in the times in which they [...]
We are the first generation where mass media certitudes have ingrained within us certain irrevocable, perhaps unrealistic, assurances about our financial well-being. Invest young in order to profit when old, minor stock fluctuations [...]
...Soichiro Honda once pointed out "Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon, philosophy without [...]
...Such zest for challenge helped explain why other capable students thought they lacked ability just because they’d hit a setback. Common sense suggests that ability inspires self-confidence. And it does for a while—so long as [...]
Precinct 409 - JB Fisher ES
Arrived @ 6AM, 1 hour 20 minute wait. Steady stream line of approx 300+ people twisting up the street for 12 touch screen stations. [...]
Murtha in trouble after calling constituents racist
A new independent poll shows Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) leading his opponent by only five points, just a week after he suggested residents of western Pennsylvania are racist.
Forty-six percent of voters in Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district said they supported [...]
It's a geography and economics quiz. In other words, a high number of US citizens are guaranteed to get it wrong.
Here's the picture Powell saw of Elsheba Khan at her son's grave. NYT has some background on Cpl. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan.He and three other soldiers, including a corporal from Washington Heights, were killed in Baquba after a bomb detonated while they [...]
"Will you assure us," one woman asked, "that, as president, you will take immediate action to investigate, prosecute and name the names of the people actually responsible?"
"I will," McCain answered.
"The same people that are now claiming credit for this rescue are the same ones that were [...]
"There has always been a section of the Georgian leadership who [...]
At left is TV Guide publisher Walter Annenberg and his wife, Leonore. The handsome tall guy with them is Ronald Reagan. Walter introduced Ronnie to Maggie Thatcher. Ronnie liked Walter's philosophy and philanthropy so much he gave him the Medal of Freedom. Ronnie liked Leonore so [...] 1. Sec. 503. Exemption from excise tax for certain wooden arrows designed for use by children. (Page 263) Current law places an excise tax of 39 cents on the first sale by the manufacturer, producer, or importer of any shaft of a type used to [...]
I asked Bill Black, a professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and an authority on the Savings and Loan debacle of the 1980s, what he thought of the latest blame offensive. He pointed out that, [...]
That is one of the key elements of the current situation. A decision was made to bypass the broad, deeply traded traditional markets [...]
Ms Couric: "When it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?"
Mrs Palin: "I've read most of them, again with a great appreciation [...]
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his top aides took credit for building a winning bailout coalition – hours before the vote failed and stocks tanked.
Shortly before the vote, McCain had bragged about his involvement and mocked Sen. Barack Obama for staying on the [...]
Well, we just dipped 700+ points, faster than a feather tied to an anvil, in increments of 10 and 15 and 20.
If Congress does not pass legislation to address the crisis, credit will dry up, people will no longer be able to buy homes, life savings will be at stake and businesses will not have enough money to pay salaries . . .Try it at home. . . and [...]
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