My final post: Farewell, dear readers!

My colleague Andrea Sachs has a story in the Global Business section of this week’s magazine about Seth Godin’s latest book. Godin is something of a character, a marketing guy who sells a ton of books largely by feeding people recycled common sense. I met him last year and asked him about that — why [...]

The price of a lottery

The Associated Press had a great piece of enterprise reporting earlier this week about how much money California could get for privatizing its lottery. Governor Schwarzenegger has been throwing around the figure $37 billion — a particularly nice number considering the state faces a $14.5 billion budgetary shortfall — but the AP got its hands [...]