Filed under: Aftermarket, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs To borrow a line from the classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Crane Cams isn't quite dead yet. The storied aftermarket auto parts company was founded back in 1953 and has since grown into a well-known brand name specializing in camshafts and val...

And then grab a stage break Nobody can be right all the time, but Dr. Nouriel Roubini has come pretty darn close so far. That does not, however, preclude being correct into perpetuity. Dr. Roubini has now grasped near constant media attention, and I believe the media’s insatiable desire for co...

For all things Spot.Us - I will quickly remind folks that the project has its own blog where we are updating regularly. I will update here on occasion but will still keep this as my personal blog. This post will be a little on the academic side - but it's something that has been formulating in my he...

It’s not a great depression, neither is it a great recession we’re going through now. At the Brite conference this week, Umair Haque called it a great “compression ,” as an economy built on perceived value reconciles with actual value. This morning, The New York Times finally...

By BRAD WARTHENEditorial Page Editor On a brilliant, warm February afternoon, I was holed up in a darkened booth in an Irish-themed pub talking local politics. Not exactly James Joyce’s “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,â€� but a reasonable Columbia facsimile.    Jack Van Loan was...

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is a big fan of recycling, so it probably warms his heart to see Spark Capital founder Todd Dagres recycling his November suggestion that General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM) should replace Rick Wagoner with Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) founder and CEO Steve Jobs. Dagr...

By Tom Wilkinson Director, GM News Relations In “Utopia,” Sir Thomas More proposed replacing the grit and struggle of Tudor England with an island in the Atlantic free from war, poverty and lawyers. In his column, “Start up the Risk-Takers,” Thomas Friedman proposes replacing...

Just received this email, which I'm sure echos the thoughts of many home owners: "Been meaning to contact you to get your take on the recent wholesale changes that are coming hard and fast at the mortgage bankers out there......

For once, I am ahead of the game. I have now interviewed ALL of the declared candidates for governor in 2010, and have written about them in my Sunday column. Of course, there's only one so far: Sen. Vincent Sheheen, Democrat from Camden. I don't know who will be the next candidate to declar...

As you probably know, today GM submitted its updated viability plan to the U.S. Treasury Department, to meet the requirements of our U.S. government loan agreements. The plan, which provides a detailed review of a variety of aspects of GM’s restructuring, is the first of two status reports req...