As a kid, the only person I knew who ate Grape Nuts was my grandpa. Looking up at the white box on the top of his fridge, I always wondered what the hell a Grape Nut was, and to this day I still don’t really know. But I will say that they make an excellent […]
So my old company is reverting to its even older self: Time Warner and AOL To Separate I’m curious to see who will buy AOL and what they think is valuable. They have a decent development team down there, so I’d imagine that gets some interest, but otherwise it’ll be interesting to see.
If Robespierre were to ascend from hell and seek out today’s guillotine fodder, he might start with a list of those with three incriminating initials beside their names: MBA. The Masters of Business Administration, that swollen class of jargon-spewing, value-destroying financiers and consultants have done more than any other group of people to create the […]
There’s a been a rash of new Comcast ads in the past few days, featuring a bunch of people in three-quarter view singing a really strange and monotonic rhyme about Comcast and all the ninjas and explosions it offers. But that’s funny, because when I think “Comcast”, I don’t think “funky and hip” so much […]
The government is finally about to start buying up the garbage assets that all the big banks are holding. From the WSJ, still owned by the same people who brought you When Animals Attack: ‘Bad Bank’ Funding Plan Starts to Get Fleshed Out This one is going to be a public-private partnership, wherein the government […]
Though I was busy finishing up Winter A for the past week, it doesn’t mean I haven’t kept up with the world. (Sage RSS sidebar = a favorite of mine.) So here’s a burst of opinion: My newest senator Roland Burris grows more as an embarrassment each day, but what’s even more embarrassing is the […]
Hey readaz. Trying to find a job for summer = time-consuming and thus bad for blogging, but I got some mad cool news recently when I found out that I’m going to Bangalore, India, for five weeks as part of the Multidisciplinary Action Program (or MAP, for the acronymically challenged) at Ross. Sweet! So, some […]
I was just recently talking to these guys about their summer internship offerings. Somehow I don’t think that’s very high on their priority list right now. The other timely thing is that we’re studying the multiplier effect of debt right now in finance. Company debt will get you the serious hookup when times are good, […]
This slightly alarmist but still insightful piece from the New York Times noted last quarter’s decline in overall ad revenue for newspaper websites. The headline “Web Revenue is Stalling” makes it sound as if the online news industry is doomed and will never recover, but that headline could just as easily have been written “As […]
Not only is this satire extremely informative (really!), I also learned that Google’s PowerPoint imitation isn’t all that bad: Subprime Works Oh yeah, and to the candidates: bad economic stuff happened that’s probably worth a discussion, just FYI.