The day is quickly drawing near for Justin to move on to bigger and better things things. As you can see, I am putting on a brave face, but I’m really quite upset. (Justin, as you can see, has taken to drinking.)
Justin will post more about his transition later today, and I’ll post again about some new folks who will be joining the …
The recession and its long-lingering effects may be at least partly responsible for why your child is enrolled in public school, your lawyer is depressed, and your husband is cheating on you.
My column this week is about economic data, and the ways in which it can mislead (or at least send us into unnecessary tizzies). It was inspired by a stint of economic-indicator-watching during Christmas week. A GDP report came out that revised third quarter economic growth down to a 2.2% annual pace—from the 3.8% originally reported …
Apparently a few pretty big bricks are being added to the pay wall. Three giants in the world of free online content—YouTube, Hulu, and the New York Times—may not be quite as free in the near future.
With bundled pay TV packages, you pay for 60 or 100 or 1,000 channels, even if you really only watch 8. I, for one, would certainly be interested in the option to pay for channels a la carte. I mean, I’m annoyed that QVC appears as I click around looking for something to watch, and the thought that even 1¢ of my bill might go to such a …
After a year of seemingly shouting in the wilderness, Paul Volcker finally got his druthers this morning. The Obama administration is going to push for a breakup of modern Wall Street. Or at least a bunch of restrictions to wall off risky, profitable stuff from the nuts and bolts that keep the financial system going. Which may not be …
Yes, it’s possible to survive in New York City—and even sock away $6,000 in savings—making less than $30,000 a year.
The authors of a new book make the case that life can be good—great, even—while your credit score is in the dumps. In spite of bad credit, you can still buy a home, take a vacation, start a business, and most importantly, not be depressed all the time. And the writers should know what they’re talking about: One of the authors had to …
I’m not just finding junk as I clean out my timemagazine.com inbox. I also come across interesting stuff, like this long-ago e-mail from reader Darrell Balmer:
In Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller highlighted the increased probability of high equity returns over a ten year period when the price to average preceding 10 year earnings
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I’m cleaning out my timemagazine.com e-mail inbox one last time. One thing that this exercise is driving home to me is that, after more than 13 years at effectively the same e-mail address (e-mails addressed to my old fortunemail.com address still land in my inbox), a journalist gets an insane amount of PR spam. And while I can’t work up …
