Today, I’d like to present part of my “Prime-Bomb� thesis in more detailed terms but first I should mention that this is easily my most bearish post yet… not for the faint of heart… If you are feeling really down already, best just to skip it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you… First off, ...

Getting mad as hell at tycoon villains is the new buzz....

As the newspaper industry has struggled with declining revenue, some analysts predicted that college newspapers would weather the storms of the changing media environment better than their peers in the wider industry. (See also this Chronicle of Higher Education article.) Now the national economy in...

You probably thought it was smart to buy a foreign import of superior quality, with better mileage and resale value. Maybe you even thought that years of market share loss might prod us into rethinking our process and redesigning our......

Today’s release of the S&P/Case-Shiller home price indices for October confirms a worsening of deterioration seen in the nation’s housing markets with ALL of the 20 metro areas tracked reporting significant year-over-year declines and ALL metro areas showing large and even shocking declines ...

Subtitle: Sell Into the Rally? It appears we have reached another critical juncture in the economic crisis. Yesterday the S&P 500 broke through its 50-day simple moving average but whether it will defy the recent bear market “sell into the rally� trend and head notably higher or collapse to ...

Definition of schadenfreude: Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.  Greatest opportunity to engage in schadenfreude in at least two generations. Why? Vanity Fair has it here.  Want to know why it's the greatest opportunity in memory?  Here's a taste: The new thriftiness takes a bit of ...

(Image from flickr.com/photos/that_james/2894922538/) I had one of those 'stream of consciousness' thoughts on the way back from the high school drop-off this morning. First, a bit of background: The issue of global poverty, and more importantly what to do about  it, is admittedly very complex. Hav...

. OBAMA NAMES ANOTHER CLINTONIAN BUSHCO REAGANAUT TO HIS CABINET NY FED CHAIRMAN OK'ED DERIVATIVE "EXPERIMENT" & LEHMAN BROS FAILURE THAT STARTED CRISIS But Obama Thinks He's A "Kewl Guy," So . . . People keep saying wait and see, give Obama a chance, he's not even inaugurated yet, give him a ch...

The vultures are circling. What was once a small trickle of layoffs at major newspapers has become a waterfall of lost jobs within the media business. One can almost picture the Poynter Institute's widely read journalism industry blog Romenesko sauntering up to Time Inc. and Conde Nast and screaming...