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...

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. ...

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If on one hand libraries and newspaper kiosks overflow with books and magazines that examine, analyze and comment on the current economic recession hitting Japan, then on the other hand, many people have begun to think that, if there are losers (layoffs and companies in the red), there must also be ...

Matt Yglesias challenges Lisa Schiffren’s assertion that “The doctors, lawyers, engineers, executives, serious small-business owners, top salespeople, and other professionals and entrepreneurs who make this country run work considerably harder than pretty much anyone else (including most...

Barry Ritholz has a depressing list of companies the were going gangbusters quite recently and are now damned near worthless.  A partial list: AIG (39 cents) Citigroup (98 cents) E*Trade (66 cents) Unisys (37 cents) Ford ($1.83) GM ($1.83) For those of us who don’t buy individual stocks, here...

GM warned last month that its auditors, Deloitte & Touche, could raise those concerns, but the announcement underscored the stakes for G.M. as it sought up to $30 billion in government aid to restructure with a bankruptcy filing. “Our recurring losses from operations, stockholders’ d...

This certainly puts things into perspective: As reported by the AP, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell to 6,763.29 yesterday, its lowest level since April 25, 1997. That weekend, Volcano topped the box office, Princess Diana was still 4 months from her tragic death, and Barry Bonds was ski...

In my New Atlanticist piece “Euro Drops Ever So Slightly After Bailout Rejection,” I give a YahooNews headline writer a hard time for turning an insignificant change in the dollar-euro exchange rate into a commentary on Europe’s response to the financial crisis. Hilarity (or, at le...

However, I’m not sure that this particular strategy would work in every industry: (CNN) — It’s a tough time for businesses, but one entrepreneur may have found the recipe for success. On Monday, Donald Crabtree opened Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro, Maine, where the w...