Mark Cuban not so ha ha ha

I’ve been getting a steady stream of traffic over the past couple of days to a post I wrote in May 2007 titled Ha ha ha Mark Cuban ha ha ha. It was about the Warriors’ glorious upset of Cuban’s Mavs in the NBA playoffs that year. The people landing there now all presumably want [...]

Next time they should probably carpool

So the Detroit bailout will have to wait, at least until December. Nancy Pelosi said it was because lawmakers wanted to see a plan for how GM, Chrysler and Ford would spend the money. Then there was that other reason: [W]hatever support they found sagged when it became known that each of them had flown [...]

My book needs a subtitle. Can you help?

So, as reported, I turned the book manuscript in Monday. Now I need a subtitle. There are those who think I need a title. I disagree, but I’ll get to that. The title of the book is The Myth of the Rational Market. The current subtitle, which is left over from the days that the [...]

Why isn’t American industry agitating for universal health care?

Long-time reader and Australian-TV-personality-on-the-rise Marcus has a question: Given the whole debate about the US auto industry and the fact that one of their massive ongoing costs is health care, why the hell isn’t corporate America out there campaigning 24/7 for universal, state funded health care? Surely one of the reasons that US manufacturing is [...]