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Weekend video: Hüsker Dü ♥ Mary Tyler Moore
It’s been too long since I posted a music video. No Belgians this time, just some Minneapolis boys singing a Minneapolis song:
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The jobs report: You have to admit, it’s getting better
The unemployment rate is down to 10%. Payroll employment, a more reliable month-to-month indicator, was “essentially unchanged.” That’s Bureau of Labor Statistics lingo for 11,000 fewer jobs than the month before. So the number is still negative, but after 21 straight months of 100,000+ job losses, it’s pretty encouraging news.
Now for …
Comcast goes one direction, Time Warner the opposite
Back in February, my employer, Time Warner, announced the completion of its spinoff of Time Warner Cable, the country’s second-biggest cable system operator. Said Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes at the time:
We’re confident that this separation will benefit Time Warner and Time Warner Cable stockholders. Both companies will be better
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In LA
Sorry for the lack of posting. Been on the move, and been sleepy. I’m currently sitting in a hotel room in downtown LA, getting ready for a Drucker Business Forum chat with Kai Ryssdal and Paul Zak about rational/irrational markets and then a radio interview on KPCC’s AirTalk with Larry Mantle. And while we’re on the self-aggrandizement …
Are finance professors to blame for the financial crisis (part 3)?
Philip Coggan, a.k.a. The Economist‘s Buttonwood columnist, steers me to
a strange piece in the Financial Times today which attacks (without naming) Justin Fox’s book The Myth of the Rational Market.
The column is basically a rehash of a blog post by Gene Fama, which I addressed here a couple of weeks ago. And it doesn’t exactly attack my book:
New column: All that glitters (it’s about gold, get it?)
My new column is online and in the issue of TIME with the crying baby on the cover.
While we’re on the topic of the cover, I should mention that Andy Serwer’s cover story on The Decade From Hell is not purely an exercise in looking through the rearview mirror. Well, actually, it is mostly an exercise in looking through the rearview …
Marketing without advertising the Ikea way
This is the story, via Chris Matyszczyk, of how Ikea used Facebook to promote a new store in Malmö, Sweden:
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This year’s (gingerbread) model
Time to panic again! Or, on second thought …
So I was too busy smashing potatoes (with shallots, butter and cream), falling asleep in front of the TV with the Giants-Broncos game on, and other such important matters Thursday to pay attention to the global market freakout occasioned by Dubai World’s announcement that it was going to stop paying its debt bills for six months. (Dubai …
Happy Smurfsgiving
I gave a speech about Fischer Black, and all I got was this not-at-all-lousy T-shirt
Aaron Brown organized an event at Bloomberg HQ tonight to celebrate the reissue of the late Fischer Black’s books Business Cycles and Equilibrium and Exploring General Equilibrium. Haven’t read ’em, so I told some Fischer Black stories from my book. And I got this swell T-shirt. If I weren’t so tired I’d tell more (maybe later), but …