My September trip to Denmark has finally resulted in actual print-on-paper article that’s in the new issue of Time and online here. It’s a lot shorter than I had banked on. Actually, that’s not quite right: Its two pages are about as much space as I had ever hoped to get in the U.S. edition [...]

I didn’t know quite what to make of the news Wednesday that former superpublisher Judith Regan was suing HarperCollins for being really mean to her. Happily, I’ve got Roger Parloff to think (and read the filing) for me: Regan’s [complaint] reads like one of those humor pieces in The New Yorker, where it not-so-gradually dawns [...]

My post from Madison a few weeks ago about the McRib and world peace has enabled me to enter the elite world of McRib bloggers, and while reading this fascinating post by a McRib-obsessed guy named Andy Fox (no relation, as far as I know) I came across this even more fascinating statement (in the [...]

From a report sent out this morning by Merrill Lynch North American economist David Rosenberg (who is Canadian): We don’t seem to recall that the economy or market backdrop in Canada (and New Zealand or Australia for that matter) were being severely damaged when the Canadian dollar (the loonie) endured its multi-year downward adjustment through most of [...]

I missed this when it came out, but the NRC Handelsblad had a piece Saturday on the latest data from University of Maastricht professor Piet Eichholtz‘s famous index of house prices along the Herengracht in Amsterdam dating back to 1650 (translation mine): The average house on the Herengracht now costs 2.6 million euros. That is, [...]

From an article in the Economist on Facebook’s plan to cash in on word-of-mouth advertising: Yet another problem, says Paul Martino, an entrepreneur who launched Tribe, an early social network, is that the interpersonal connections (called the “social graph”) on such networks are also of low quality. Because few people dare to dump former friends [...]

The National Review‘s Ramesh Ponnuru joins the ranks of Time opinion columnists in the current issue. Curious Capitalist commenter Chuck really hated his first effort, so I just went and read it (sorry, been on the road). First, here’s Chuck’s take: His thesis is that our healthcare is expensive because it is free, and to [...]

Members of a fan website have ponied up £700,000 to buy the English minor league soccer team Ebbsfleet United. Fan takeovers aren’t unheard of in England; what’s new here is that fan message board chatter will now supposedly converted into actual coaching decisions. “Every MyFootballClub member will have an equal say in team selection, player [...]

Even while on occasion contributing to it, I’ve been a little dubious of the Jamie-Dimon-steers-JPMorgan-safely-through-the-mortgage-debacle story line that has been emerging in recent weeks. I mean, there have got to be lots more mortgage-related losses coming at every big bank, right? Even the Great Dimon can’t avert that. But on the subway this morning I [...]