New Affirmations iPhone app helps overcome stress and anxiety during these tough economic times. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO, Ontario -(March 12, 2009)– ACQYR.com has released the iAmHappy iPhone app with over 500 positive affirmations to help people through these uncertain times.  With all...

John Berry: If Tax-Cut Lapsing Is Class Warfare, Let’s Fight, by John M. Berry, Commentary, Bloomberg: If letting top income-tax rates go back to where they were in 2000 is class warfare against the rich, I’m ready to snap to attention with my old M1 rifle on my shoulder. What a ridiculous label...

Were chief executives at financial firms caught in "a financial tsunami" beyond their control, or are they partly responsible for what happened?: A Tsunami of Excuses, by William Cohan, Commentary, NY Times: It's been a year since Bear Stearns collapsed, kicking off Wall Street’s mel...

As I was driving into the Lijit offices, I was thinking about this years SXSW conference, and how different it would be for me. I was thinking about the posts I had read from friends who were going and had gone before. The difference for me this year will be striking (speaking vs. not-speaking, know...

Via the Treasury Department’s Debt to the Penny Calculator, here’s what the National Debt was on January 19, 2001: And here’s what it was on January 20, 2009: That’s an increase of  $ 5,005,369,081,097.44, or 87.39% in eight years. In other words, George W. Bush and the Repu...

Travis Alber, Kat Meyer’s latest interviewee in her Digitizers series, is co-founder of BookGlutton. See more on Travis at the end. Launched in January 2008, BookGlutton is a cross between a book, a computer and a book group—a Web-based reading platform that lets users discuss books from...

A world-weary Baptist businessman I know likes to say, "Nobody will screw you like a brother in Christ." Meaning that there's a special kind of cynicism employed by people who use religiosity as a cover for dastardly deeds. I know......

Remember that 60 Minutes piece on bank failures I linked to earlier this week and how optimistic the Chairwoman of the FDIC sounded ? “We’ve been around for 75 years and nobody’s ever lost a penny of insured deposits,” FDIC head Sheila Bair told Pelley. “…which is why...

Dylan Matthews, guesting at Ezra’s place, provides this handy dandy chart to track Jim Cramer’s predictions on the Dow: He concludes, Actually, I’ll give Cramer some props. With the small exceptions of Boeing, GM, and IBM, the market tends to do the reverse of what he anticipates. ...

"A New York Times reporter asks [President Barack Obama] whether or not he is a socialist, but PSBO initial[ly] blew him off because he wasn't prepared for that question, after all the NY Times journalists have been his butt-boys and girls, why would he be prepared for a hard question! Once he came ...