UPDATED: Retail Round Up
Pretty dismal holiday sales this year. Here are a few links for your clicking pleasure: • Retailers Brace for Major Chang WSJ, DECEMBER...
Coal Ash Sludge
Pretty insane stuff in Tennesse: courtesy of NYT > Source: Coal Ash Spill Revives Issue of Its Hazards SHAILA DEWAN NYT, December 24,...
The Barron’s Forecasting Challenge
Think you know what will happen in financial markets in 2009, then take our 8th Annual Forecasting challenge. The winner will receive a...
Jim Jubak on Deflation
Hey MSN! How about embeddable videos? I know Microsoft didn’t invent it, but this video technology sucks. Don’t you want to...
Another Retail Discount: MP3s Slashed in Price
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000XXKTSM/thebigpictu09-20
Video-o-rama
Prieur du Plessis does a weekly “Video-o-rama” of interesting clips. Quite a number of these have already been posted on TBP, but a...
Obama Approval Poll
“An Obama job approval rating of 79 percent — that’s the sort of rating you see when the public rallies around a leader...
Inside Look: Post-Holiday Sales Push
Live! From Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, NY: Interview with J.C. Penney Store Manager Jim Skopkowski December 26, 2008
Strange Bedfellows
Prospect‘s choices for top public intellectuals of 2008: Included are Nouriel Roubini and General David Petraeus. My pal Paul...