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Last week we decided to put out a special Michael Jackson issue. It should be popping up on newsstands right about now. I never thought I’d have a conversation with ex-Pepsi-CEO Roger Enrico about commercials the company made in the mid-80s, but there we were.
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“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.”
Lumber Liquidators announced a special mill-direct sale on more than two dozen types of flooring. Discounts often knock more than 50 percent off the retail price. The sale ends Tuesday, June 30. Check out the details here.
If you still think we can trust the insurance companies to keep costs health care costs down, provide good care, and have their customers’ health truly at heart (excuse the pun), meet Wendell Potter. Mr. Potter was a pr executive for insurance companies for 20 years, spending most of his career with CIGNA. At some point, he realized that …
If you’re having trouble selling a house, you’re not alone. The housing market is weak, and many sellers are struggling to attract buyers even after drastic price reductions. One notable example: This past spring, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner couldn’t sell his home for less than what he paid for it in 2004, and so he gave up. He’s …
The Onion offers some recession porn as only The Onion can, dedicating a special issue of its “magazine” to: “Workplaces, Paychecks, and Jobs: A Nostalgic Look Back at a Vanishing Part of the American Landscape, from The Onion.” Jokes aside, is anyone hiring nowadays?
Bloomberg’s Yalman Onaran has a long look at the role Paul Volcker is playing in the Obama Administration (via Ritholtz). It’s apparently bigger than it was a few months ago:
After the inauguration and Geithner’s confirmation, Volcker was elbowed aside, White House insiders say. His economic recovery board took weeks to get off the
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The state of health care is enough to make you scream. But get this: Howard Dean, he of the famed, primal, unhinged, scary presidential-campaign-ending scream, doesn’t unleash as much as a grunt during his recent appearance on The Colbert Report. He does get in a good jab involving public bathrooms at disgraced pol Larry Craig, though. …
It was reported that demonstrators gathered outside ABC affiliates yesterday, to protest the network’s decision to air a town hall meeting with President Obama about health care. Protestors were angry that no time was allotted to those opposed to Obama’s plan.
Here’s a piece I wrote for TIME.com about the Fed’s indecisive monetary policy decision yesterday. Here’s a post I wrote for the TPM Cafe Book Club discussion of Edmund Andrews’s Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown. And finally, here’s some thrilling CNBC action from this morning:
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In the big health care debate, the BBC succinctly nailed one very important point: “A lot of powerful interests have a lot to lose.” That’s why so many organizations (health care companies and the American Medical Association in particular) are clamoring to spread their influence. And thus far, it’s pretty well proven that if they send …
