Filed under: Money & work, Resources In 1956, Coach Jerry Sacharski couldn't turn away the little guys who showed up wanting to be part of his summer baseball program, so he started the first PeeWee T-ball league to teach the six -to-eight-year-old set the fundamentals of baseball and a thing or...

Maybe some smarty pants MBA can help me out—but preferably not one of those guys who pretends to understand those gee whiz Weapons of Financial Destruction known as derivatives. Last week that day finally arrived when you could buy a share of Citigroup at the Dollar Store. And in the pattern that ...

In your meaty Tuesday media column: rumors of coming layoffs (and a die-off?) at OK! magazine, a golf magazine is killed, advertising plummets, media companies may default, and Americans don't know a damn thing: We hear that OK! Magazine is, sadly, well on its way to becoming a mere shell of the gra...

We already know the recession sucks for journalists because—to generalize slightly—they have been laid off. But it sucks for working journalists, too. Guess who else got laid off: all their sources! Imagine, if you will, that you're a business reporter. You spent years schmoozing and hob...

Rush Limbaugh as Frank Sinatra/Major Bennett Marco? No, I don't think so ... Not in a million years, and all the CGI you can generate. Kevin Hassett, on Bloomberg today, has a column calling President Obama "The Manchurian Candidate" , because, after all, Obama has launched a War on Business and is ...

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A consistent media meme since Election Day has been that Barack Obama was inheriting a recession that some believe began as far back as December 2007. Since then, despite various rescue plans from his Administration, and the passage of a $787 billion stimulus package, the stock market has continued ...

In a career of many many good moments of political commentary, surely one of the highlights of Jon Stewart’s career was the Wednesday March 4 episode of The Daily Show, which was almost entirely Jon Stewart doing commentary & interview about the financial situation. I particularly loved h...

Again, where are the Republicans who were so damned eager to ram Social Security through these pirates? It's bad enough 401K plans are relatively unregulated and Wall Street gouges clients but can you imagine the losses if they touched Social Security?The Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed...

World’s on fire, world’s on fire/And it’s too close to the wire/World’s on fire, world’s on fire/And it’s about to expire — The Prodigy, “World’s On Fire” Watching the markets jump on President Obama’s advice that stocks are a good ba...