Remember when PE firms backed out of signed deals in droves? They looked like jerks at the time, but in retrospect, they were probably smart to avoid the overpriced, highly leveraged deals they had aggressively pursued for the past three years. Taking into account the Dow’s record breaking drops l...

In your blustery Wednesday media column: the newspaper industry burns, News Corp can't handle hardcore music, NPR needs more black people, and the NYT sells a jet: What is happening in the land of dying newspapers today? Only the usual tragedy and grief. The Miami Herald is laying off a fifth of its...

Filed under: How-to Private investigators walk that fine line between adventurous and creepy. It's very similar to the line clowns walk. You can be the hero that saves a marriage or solves a crime, or you can be the pervert getting his car searched by the police. If... Read more   Permalink&nbs...

Daily Aid 93: Jobs, financial aid, and crime Student Financial Aid News From the Chronicle: Officials in at least two states are looking into the abrupt closing last week of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, an occupational school with 26 campuses that cited the dwindling availability of priva...

She's one of my favorite manga artists. Yes, I know she primarily draws smutty boy porn and whatnot, but whatever. She's an AMAZING artist, nevertheless. Well, she has three or four series that she started but have been on hiatus for quite some time (by "quite some time", I'm talking like 3+ years)....

Filed under: Wings The parent company of Gulfsteam jets, General Dynamics announced this week that it would be laying off 1,200 workers nationwide. The workers will be a mix of full-time employees and contractors. More workers will also be put on an unpaid leave for at least a month this summer as G...

Per the Chicago Tribune , a new report by the Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago finds that Illinois "is on the verge of a financial meltdown, and hard choices will be necessary to contain the economic damage": According to the report, there is no longer any pretense that the state's ...

Not so sweet, not so surprising Scientists at Yale have found the “missing link” between high fructose corn syrup and type II diabetes.  Also, the average American gulps down 60 lbs of the stuff every year. Private inspections a weak defense The NY Times tell the story of a private insp...

For his second act, Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney general of New York, is reportedly following in his father's footsteps as an investor in commercial real estate. Mr. Spizter, who resigned from his political post following a scandal involving a prostitute, has acquired a prominent ...

Many people think that a movie needs to avoid an R-rating in order to become a blockbuster. Most recent top earners have followed that dictum, with only four R-rated movies among last year's top 25 at the box office. Zack Snyder's 300 was a defiant exception in 2007, earning more than $456 million w...