Filed under: Airlines, News We'd forgive you if you accused us of being pro/anti Ryanair (depending on what you read). In the past week we broke the news that the Ryanair CEO was considering introducing coin operated bathrooms on his flights. Then we reported on remarks of a Ryanair spokesperson who...

Today at Obama’s Health Care Summit at the White House Senator Ted Kennedy who doesn’t appear to be ailing, declared that this time ’we will not fail’ at achieving health care reform/universal health care for all Americans. It seems Sir Ted is ready for a fight. Brain tum...

Gordon Ramsay is in financial straits....

As I read Bernard Condon and Nathan Vardi’s fascinating recent article in Forbes, it would seem that Harvard and Lehman had rather similar investment philosophies - and ended up with similar results. Harvard, in its search for ever higher returns and a conviction that the good times would roll for...

Cash-strapped states are eyeing what some may think is an unlikely target for their budget axes: the death penalty. In what is likely to become a heated debate over policy, CNN is reporting that some states have introduced legislation to "take the death penalty off the books over financial concerns....

At CNN.com, Emanuella Grinberg reports, "Budget concerns force state to reconsider the death penalty." If Kansas Senate Bill 208 passes, it won't take effect until July 1, so it won't affect Thurber's sentence. But future savings could be substantial. "Because of the downt...

As I understand a recent article, heavy hitters in the banking world have agreed some conflict of interest rules that more realistically adapt to current realities. Corp. Counsel, Vol. 16, March 2009 at 62, explains that Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, UBS and JPMorgan Chase, among other banks, “are...

For Pontiflex, a 10-month-old start-up with $2.5 million in funding, the recession is actually good news. The company, which has pegged itself as the first open and transparent cost per lead market, generates leads of interested consumers for advertisers--a higher value, it argues, than banner click...

That's the title of an OpEd in today's Houston Chronicle by Marc Levin, director of the Center for Effective Justice.  LINK As state agencies are asked to prune 2.5 percent of their budgets, lawmakers must take a hard look at Texas’ corrections budget during this legislative session....

"Bill to abolish death penalty will get legislative hearing," is the AP report via the Lawrence Journal-World. The state’s need to cut spending to prevent a budget deficit is a good argument for abolishing the death penalty to save money, Senate leaders said Monday. But they also said th...