Links 10/22/2010
- More than 80% of companies that reported earnings have topped analysts’ estimates. But don’t get too giddy. “After all, ‘better than expected’ could simply reflect the low level of the underlying...
View ArticleLive at the Hard Rock
Just a programming note, I’ll be on The John Batchelor Show tonight (9-12 a.m., 77 WABC on your AM dial here in the metropolitan New York area,) which tonight is being broadcast live from the Hard Rock...
View ArticleProgramming Note, 11/20
I’m going to be guest host, along with host Aaron Task of Yahoo Finance, on The John Batchelor Show, tomorrow night on WABC radio from 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Guests will include the Times’ Joe Nocera, former...
View ArticleThe Greenback Party
They’re always jitterbugging in Washington, aren’t they? The line of the night on the John Batchelor Show on Saturday came from David Cay Johnston, author of the book “Free Lunch.” We were talking...
View Article‘I Want to Do Important Journalism’
My first journalism job came at the Verona-Cedar Grove (N.J.) Times, a small, very small, weekly back in 1991. I was hired as an assistant editor with pay somewhere in the general vicinity of the...
View ArticleWhat’s Facebook Worth, Really?
One of the stories circulating today and getting lots of play is this commotion over a $500 million investment in Facebook by Goldman Sachs and Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies — an investment which...
View ArticleBaker Street
Just to send you off into the weekend with a little fire in your belly, here’s the Foo Fighters hard-rocking and ass kicking version of “Baker Street.” I heard this tune years ago on a Cape Cod radio...
View ArticleStrong Profits, Little Hiring, No Mystery
We’ve been over this ground many times, so in case you’ve been extremely out of touch, here it is again: Profitability in corporate America has rebounded sharply during the past year because companies...
View ArticleGorillas in our Midst
Jesus, Mary and Saint Joseph. You think the Chinese are our biggest competition? Watch this. Why do I suddenly feel like pounding my fists in the beach?
View ArticleSirius Gets Infusion Of ‘Tiger Blood’
Newswires Max Murphy writes: Sirius XM (SIRI), hoping it has Adonis DNA of its own, launches “Tiger Blood Radio” to tackle all things Charlie Sheen starting at 6:00 am EST Saturday. Channel will...
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