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Filed under: North America, United States, Hotels and Accommodations, News The financial crisis isn't just a problem for the residential market - hotels are getting slammed. So are cruise lines, and we all know about the airline industry's unending woes. The travel industry in the United States is s...

Bob Sutton: The Enron Code of Ethics: Something Every Boss Should Read - My hypothesis is that the longer a code of ethics in a company, the more likely they are too be sleazeballs. As I've heard my father-in-law say many times, when people talk about ethics and morals more than seems necessary,...

The House has passed bankruptcy reform legislation that dealt the banking industry its first major defeat since 1994. The bill, passed 234-191, largely along party lines, encourages lenders to renegotiate mortgages with troubled homeowners. If they can't, the bill allows bankruptcy judges to mod...

World’s on fire, world’s on fire/And it’s too close to the wire/World’s on fire, world’s on fire/And it’s about to expire — The Prodigy, “World’s On Fire” Watching the markets jump on President Obama’s advice that stocks are a good ba...

Mortgage Relief + Congress = Bankruptcy Court Looks like the ever expanding home mortgage crisis will be headed to courtrooms after all. Democrats in the House have apparently come to terms on legislation that would give bankruptcy judges authority to rewrite mortgages provided borrowers could prove...

PACER/ECF was a godsend for Third Wavers, connected attorneys, future lawyers, telecommuters, home office lawyers and, really, all lawyers when it was first established.  It sure beat the hell out of making tons of copies of a documents and either couriering or FEDEXing them to the Courthouse,...

Yep, you read that right. Denver's Rocky Mountain News is finished, its last edition to be published today. If you haven't been following current events, anyone working for a newspaper these days is more likely to get laid off than dudes in the building trades and the automotive industry. Ask folks ...

As I watch the mounting list of faltering newspapers, I'm reminded of the typical storyline for a horror movie- Everybody is a potential victim, and you don't know who's going to die next, but it's going to bloody. Following Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filings by the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New Have...

Brian Tierney was a bulldog Philadelphia PR man much hated by Philadelphia journalists before he led a group that bought the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News in 2006. Let's review how that's worked out: In the summer of '06, Tierney and some wealthy Philly-area investors purchased the papers fro...