If you’re like me, I bet you haven’t shopped at RadioShack recently. Or if you have, you probably didn’t spend much. Maybe you picked up a camera battery, a fuse, or some sort of connector. But for …
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Liberty City to Wall Street: Grand Theft Auto wags a finger
by Patrice Sarath, March 13, 2009, 8:37 amFrom the Department of Audacity Department: The makers of Grand Theft Auto are having fun tweaking the “smartest guys in the room” over the recession brought on by corporate greed and outright malfeasance.
If you don’t want to click on …
The Daily Show entertains us with actual journalism
by Larry Bills, March 9, 2009, 9:46 amI love it when Jon Stewart steers the national conversation. After eight years of watching the news media reduce itself to little more than stenographers for the Bush Administration, The Daily Show has been …
The subprime mortgage crisis — what Henry Blodget and Adam Gopnik get wrong
by Patrice Sarath, January 6, 2009, 10:18 amHenry Blodget in The Atlantic blames the people who got subprime mortgage loans. Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker blames — again! — George Bailey. (Sorry, Adam, …
It’s a wonderful recession
by Patrice Sarath, December 22, 2008, 4:34 pmYou know times are tough when “It’s a Wonderful Life” starts taking hits.
Last week’s New York Times points out the iconic movie’s miserable subtext in an essay by Wendell Jamieson. Jamieson points out — and gives a nod …
Coal in your Christmas stocking? Been naughty? No, it’s clean.
by Stuart Hampton, December 17, 2008, 3:04 pmOld King Coal will be a merry old soul if this Christmas season brought good news about a New Year of increasing commitment to clean coal technology. Big Coal (including coal majors Peabody Energy, CONSOL Energy, …
Big Pharma goes bargain-hunting
by Kristi Park, November 3, 2008, 7:00 amAs cash-strapped consumers these days are trading in Neiman Marcus for the discount stores, big pharmaceutical companies flush with cash are looking to spend some of that money on bargain-bin acquisitions. Several drugmaking giants have indicated their intentions to use the economic downturn to snap …
Ackman’s Real Estate Deal is Off-Target
by Alexandra Biesada, October 31, 2008, 7:00 amA hedge fund manager who owns just shy of 10% of Target’s shares is asking the nation’s #2 discounter to consider a plan to …
