It’s nice to see that Conde Nast hasn’t spent all $125 million on umbrellas

Like a lot of people in business journalism, I’ve been wondering what exactly Conde Nast Portfolio is spending its purported $125 million budget on. I’ve been hoping that most of it was going to my friend and CNP senior writer Dan Roth, since we’re supposed to have lunch soon and maybe he’ll pay. Anyway, my [...]

Republicans are all out of interesting economic ideas

Leftie rabble-rouser Harold Meyerson been on something of a roll lately in his column in the Washington Post. Last week there was his clever suggestion that maybe it was time to revive the House Un-American Activities Committee to look into American corporations’ lobbying against more rights for labor in China. (The argument being that such [...]