Earlier this month, Justin told you about Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz popping by our offices and saying, among other things, that the coffee chain was really starting to feel the pinch from sluggish consumer spending. Let’s put that one in the “you heard it here first” column. Today in reporting preliminary Q2 results, Starbucks played [...]
On Monday I got an email from the University of Iowa telling me that Barack Obama had a 75% chance of winning the Democratic nomination; Hillary Clinton was at 21%. I’m guessing I’m not the only business reporter out there who is most comfortable processing the horse race elements of national politics through Iowa’s prediction [...]
