The severe economic crisis now gripping the United States — and hence the entire world — has been labeled by the Paper of Record as the “financial equivalent of 9/11.â€� In its severity and overall impact, the comparison may hold true. But when it comes to media coverage, a far better ...

The 2009 Rogue Festival Web site is all up and running with all the info you need to start your planning. Of note: read more...

Geithner reenacts Jim Carrey’s Fun with Dick & Jane! Traders and investors alike have been waiting for Geithner’s speech. It got delayed once, so investors just knew that when he stepped up to the mic that he’d really have something to say. However, what he ended up doing was opening up mo...

Ken Paulson is een belangrijke meneer in krantenland. Hij is momenteel onder meer werkzaam bij Newseum. Op het blog Newspaperproject (over de toekomst van kranten) stuitte ik op een verwijzing naar een speech van Paulson, met de titel Newspapers are Fact-Checked, Hand-Delivered, No Pop-up Ads. What'...

The TARP Congressional Oversight Panel has released a report which puts a number for the first time on how many billions of our money Hank Paulson managed to lose right up front when he pumped capital into mismanaged banks. By way of background, recall this Bloomberg article from four weeks ago: Hen...

There are 2 governments involved in the BAC situation. The 1st is the government of Bush and the 2nd is the government of Obama. The Bush government was reckless and waited until the last minute to reveal the systemic situation......

Filed under: Industry, Programming, Reality-Free Back when I was a kid, besides walking several miles in the snow to school, we never heard the insider-ish, behind the scenes details of what was going on behind the scenes of a TV show. We hardly knew that shows were even coming up, not until we got ...

While there may be many promises of “change� happening in America …one thing that is definitely “changing� is the relationship between China and the U.S. Why is this increasingly important? There are a few reasons but a couple of important ones off the top of my head are: Just a few short ...

Suddenly, everyone’s discovered that Paulson’s original thrust—to use TARP to buy “toxic� assets off bank balance sheets—was right, and that the subsequent tack—to use TARP money to bolster bank capital accounts—was wrong. Everyone has also seen the light with regard to Lehman: that ...

I wish I were smart enough to come up with a list like this. The good news is my friends at TP are smart enough. From TP: Next week, “change is coming to America,� as President George W. Bush wraps up his tenure as one of the worst American presidents ever. He wasn’t able to accomplish such a...