Hello! And Hej! to you, Henri. It’s great to be back.
So, last week Justin mentioned that Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper is looking to outsource some copy editing to the U.S. Foreigners? Hiring Americans? As my colleague Coco Masters recently reported, they’re after our pilots, too.
In a slightly different sort of turn-about, I …
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 people perpetually want to be …
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 …
The Nobel-Prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz, who is a professor up at Columbia University, swung by the office this morning for a meet-and-greet. Noble-Prize-winning… must be a nice way to be introduced.
Stiglitz was here to promote his soon-to-be-published book on the true cost of the Iraq war, which he and Linda Bilmes of Harvard …
The other day I was told that most blogging is pretty much about linking to things other people have written. I’ve got to get to a meeting now, so I’m leaving you with these:
On Monday, I asked:
What is almost always the top-selling item in any grocery store?
The answer: bananas. Way to go, comment-poster tomsteuber!
What’s really wild is that tomsteuber is also correct that bananas are the top-selling item at Wal-Mart (as measured by dollar sales). And Wal-Mart, as you may or may not realize, is not only …
One thing people tend to care about a lot when oil gets really expensive is what happens at the gas pump. Gas prices broadly follow the cost of crude, but there’s a lot more that goes into how much a fill-up sets you back. I called up Oil Price Information Service (OPIS), a group that follows fuel costs, and asked them to send me some …
Big news today in commodities: crude oil closed above $100 a barrel for the first time ever.
In the days that follow, you’re going to be hearing a lot about what OPEC will do when it meets on March 5, and maybe some more about Venezuela’s president threatening to cut off exports to the U.S.
Let’s all just remember a few things by way …
It’s hard to swing a dead cat without hitting a behavioral economist these days. In case you’re one of those people who only reads this blog for the trivia, and you don’t normally follow economics, I’ll explain. Neo-classical economics (i.e., what you learned as a college freshman) assumes that individuals are rational and act in their …
Technically I’m off for Presidents’ Day, which is why today’s post will be short and sans multimedia. You know, it’s a real mystery to me who gets off work for Presidents’ Day and who doesn’t. Maybe Lisa Cullen can sort that out.
Anyway, I’m hereby declaring this Trivia Night. Here’s your question (maybe it’ll be something …
There’s a new poll about the public’s views on the U.S. economy out from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. They ask a lot of questions about economic problems facing the nation and who’s at fault — it’s interesting, read it — but one of the more surprising results comes from a question asking people which country they …
Justin is having a hard time being away from his blog, but you, dear readers, are the beneficiaries. He just radioed this in:
BREAKING NEWS! I just saw Stan O’Neal looking at the sale window at Frank Stella [Clothiers] on 58th before going into the New York Athletic Club next door!!!!!
That Stan O’Neal? Yes, that Stan O’Neal.
Still …
