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June 23, 2007

Did you know 2.0?

Looks great Dave but I think you could speed it up a bit.

July 27, 2007

The real morons of Orange County.

Why American's most reckless real estate investors come from Irvine, California.

September 25, 2007

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City.

Looks interesting.

November 27, 2007

The government of Abu Dhabi is now Citigroup's largest shareholder.

The Great Erosion continues.

January 7, 2008

McDonalds to compete directly with Starbucks.

They don't get it.

Howard Schultz boots CEO and takes over.

Sweeping reform coming in the months ahead.

January 14, 2008

IBM reminds everyone it's still a heavy in the tech game.

Screw your home computer market.

January 24, 2008

Bono vs. Gore.

"Can we end poverty without wrecking our planet?"

February 16, 2008

The rise of BRIC.

How Brazil, Russia, India and China are reshaping the marketing world.

February 26, 2008

Beware of Freeconomics.

It's Communism 2.0.

May 15, 2008

CBS buys CNET for $1.8B.

Insanity.

August 9, 2008

Noncompete clauses no longer work in California.

"As long as you don't steal trade secrets or confidential information, you can do what you want."

September 8, 2008

NBC Universal may hand over it's advertising sales to Google.

Crazy.

September 14, 2008

Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch.

Pay attention kids, one-hundred year history is being made right now.

September 18, 2008

Herb Kelleher on why Southwest Airlines rawks.

"...our principal advantage at Southwest and in this milieu is the fact that we're so strong financially."

September 29, 2008

Khoi, I hope you like huntin'.

Oh, and the Bible. You had better brush up on the Old Testament.

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.

Great but when does the movie come out?

October 4, 2008

"It would be arrogant to believe that even the strongest of Internet media companies can simply shrug off the coming decline in consumer spending."

— Nick Denton

October 17, 2008

The economic crisis could be the end of green...

but green may be how we end this financial crisis."

October 28, 2008

The subprime mortgage crisis Xplane'd.

I love Xplane. They can do no wrong.

November 19, 2008

"If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye."

Throw them to the lions, let nature sort them out.

December 26, 2008

"If we're so smart, why are other people living so much better than us?"

We're not smart, we're entitled!

January 1, 2009

"Belief in the mission matters (a lot!), but it doesn't replace skill."

Agreed.

Vox Stimuli.

BusinessWeek's blog on Obama's upcoming New Deal '09.

January 18, 2009

Five success secrets from high pressure world of financial sales

by Bernard L. Madoff.

January 20, 2009

A simple act of faith.

Buy ten shares of common stock in an American company today.

January 25, 2009

"Obama's plan will make it worse. We got into this by borrowing and stimulating, now he wants to borrow and stimulate more."

To make things worse we don't even have the option of moving to Iceland this time around.

Buy oil.

And make it ExxonMobil, it's got moxie!

January 27, 2009

Japan's GDP is sinking rapidly.

They need to Wonder-Twin-Power with Iceland and form a new country and a bucket of ice.

February 2, 2009

"When I come back from the Middle East and China, I'm still optimistic," said Fornas. "When I come back from New York, I'm not optimistic at all."

Hmm. Maybe it's time the Rocket Scientist accepted the offer from Dubai.

February 3, 2009

Internet based entertainment (gaming, blogs, twitter) is on the rise.

"The number of visitors to online game sites jumped 29.9% during the fourth quarter of last year."

February 11, 2009

A better, more detailed map of the stimulus package.

Spending won't hit peek until 2010. Just enough time for me to start a green energy company.

February 16, 2009

Starbucks to sell instant coffee.

They're just setting themselves up to be acquired by McDonalds.

March 10, 2009

Worlds most admired companies?

Shouldn't there be a few more non-American companies on that list?

April 28, 2009

North Dakota has the lowest unemployment because no one lives there.

Population has to play a factor in percentages as they pertain to employment and taxes.

May 4, 2009

McDonalds to spend $100M on a launch campaign for McCafe.

The results are "expected to add about $1 billion to McDonald's bottom line."

May 27, 2009

If I'm going to own 70% of GM then lets tear it down and, finally, build hover cars.

I want a vehicle that glides in the air and I want the exhaust to sound like George Jefferson's hover car.

June 1, 2009

An infographic showing the long decline of GM production.

America started to wake up in 1986 and realized that their cars were inferior to foreign models.

July 11, 2009

GM wants to sell new cars on eBay.

GM needs to make cars people want first. Bad products are still bad products online.

August 7, 2009

"A decade-old love affair between coffee shops and laptop-wielding customers is fading."

Coffee shop Internet surfers are the new hippies.

August 10, 2009

US banks stand to collect a record $38.5bn in fees for customer overdrafts this year.

Great, so now they can pay the taxpayers back now right?! Hello?

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