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The Daily Show‘s John Oliver took a look at Tim Geithner’s hard-to-sell Larchmont, N.Y., house last night. The segment wasn’t all that funny, but the part where Oliver gets Robert Shiller to comment on whether Geithner’s turquoise (aqua? teal?) bathroom tiles are driving …
Almost three years ago, Netflix announced it would award $1 million to anyone who could improve its movie-recommendation algorithm by at least 10%. (That’s the computer programming that tells you that if you like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, chances are you’ll also like Kurosawa films—odd as that may sound.) Well, for the …
I liked John Gapper’s FT profile of CNBC’s “pugnacious pundit” Charlie Gasparino. A typical passage (with the curse words bleeped, because Curious Capitalist readers require more protection from profanity than FT readers do):
If anything, the onscreen Gasparino is a toned-down version of the off-air one. One morning, he upset Lance
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Thanks to the persistence and assistance of commenter audiospaceship, I finally read the samizdat version of Matt Taibbi’s Goldman Sachs screed. (Rolling Stone only posted excerpts, and while I may still go out and buy a print copy, I wouldn’t be able to link to it.) I generally liked it, and I actually learned a bunch from the section …
Stan Collender writes a rousing defense of the Washington Post plan—since abandoned in the face of criticism/controversy—to charge for access to “intimate dinners” at publisher Katharine Weymouth’s house:
The only thing the Washington Post really did that was wrong is that it apologized.
Other news outlets have been doing things
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So this ad for the Palm Pre comes on TV, and a strangely familiar tune comes on in the background. I think about it for a few minutes, and then suddenly, out of nowhere, it comes to me: Doot Doot.
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The line about the babies in high heels is a reference to this segment. Beyond that it’s pretty self-explanatory.
I’m the guest tonight. Seriously. I’m filling in for poor Henry Waxman, who had to go to the hospital (he’s feeling better now, though).
Update: It’s all on tape now, and I think it went well. Stewart asks more intelligent questions than pretty much anybody on TV. And now for the information you’ve all been waiting for. The contents of …
I went down to Princeton this morning to speak to the Class of ’44, which counts frequent Curious Capitalist commenter dadfox among its members. The class is back for its 65th reunion, and it’s back in force, with hundreds of spouses and widows and children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren along for the ride. It is a remarkable …
Here’s a chat I did with Peter Schiff in conjunction with last week’s column.
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Schiff’s younger brother and PR guy Andrew reports that since my column, which laments non-mainstream Peter’s disappearance from the mainstream airwaves, he’s started getting bookings again. It looks like he’s even …
Time Warner to Spin Off AOL, CNet News, May 28, 2009
AOL+TWX=??? Do the math, and you might wonder if this company’s long-term annual return to investors can beat a Treasury bond’s, Carol J. Loomis, Fortune, Feb. 7, 2000
GM Said to Plan for June 1 Bankruptcy, Sale of Assets, Bloomberg, May 28, 2009
The Tragedy of General Motors: The …
I know, this hasn’t been much of a blog lately. Well, it was last week, because Barbara was on the case. But now she’s on vacation and I haven’t been delivering the goods. My excuse No. 1 is that preparing to launch a book publicity campaign turns out to be incredibly time-consuming work. This probably isn’t a very convincing excuse, …
