A Priest’s Search At Ground Zero
In the days just after Sept. 11, Jim Martin searched for God in the wreckage and suffering of Ground Zero. For some, and maybe even for many, his was a most unlikely mission. But, he says, it was...
View ArticleThink Your Job’s Safe? We Have Some Bad News
Recent news reports should give a small measure of satisfaction to the hundreds of thousands, or possibly millions, bilked by Wall Street stock analysts. Those are the men and women who corruptly...
View ArticleMartha Pays the Price For Being a Woman
To the satisfaction of many, the bitch got hers. That's how many people reacted to the news that Martha has been indicted for a trashy bunch of unimpressive federal charges. Martha is a bitch. Even in...
View ArticleFixing Capitalism Bit by Bit To Build Us All a Better World
The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy , by William Greider. Simon and Schuster, 366 pages, $28. Not long into the last century, Cicero McClure, a farmer in Western Pennsylvania,...
View ArticleHedge Funder Buys $13.6 M Condo From G.E.
In this weekend's Big Deal column, William Neuman reports that hedge fund manager Joseph M. Jabobs recently purchased a condo at 1 Central Park West for $13.6 million. But he does not mention the...
View ArticleBrodsky: Comptroller Isn’t a Stock Picker
Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who is one of several candidates jockeying for the state comptroller position, took a moment to explain that unlike what most people think the job isn't that of a stock...
View ArticleWhat It Takes (to be Comptroller)
Tomorrow is the deadline for all state comptroller candidates - real and rumored - to file paperwork with the state in advance of interviews on January 23 with the legislature and an independent...
View ArticleG.E. And Pearson Bid To Challenge Murdoch For Dow Jones
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that G.E. and Pearson are exploring a joint bid to buy Dow Jones, Inc. Early armchair analysis: The deal would put the two companies, which collectively control...
View ArticleWill GE Sell NBC After the Olympics? Investors Skeptical
For the past year, the media universe has been filled with rumors that General Electric would sell NBC Universal after the conclusion of the Beijing Olympics, which kick off this coming Friday night....
View ArticleOpen Martinis a Bargain for the Value-Based Consumer
Our 2009 cocktail coverage begins now, and how better than with a combination of vodka and martini-glass pyramids? A bunch of GE coworkers are taking a vacation day--"We got laid off!" one joked, and...
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