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The New Republic has a great piece catching up with Andy Stern, the Prof and my favorite union boss. The reason we like Stern is that he seems to understand that unions are organizing against massive, multinational corporations, and to succeed, they will need to be massive and multinational themselves.
However, as the article makes [...]

I so, so badly want to return to the heady early days of the internet:
When he bought the Web domain pizza.com for $20 in 1994, Chris Clark never imagined it would be his meal ticket.
But yesterday, the 43-year-old Queens-born entrepreneur sold the name at auction for a saucy $2.605 million.
. . .
During the [...]

There’s something poetic about the news that India’s Tata Motors is buying the Land Rover and Jaguar brands from Ford. The Land Rover was the car that was used to conquer, colonize and maintain british control over India, and now it’s owned by an Indian company. We are truly in the post-colonial [...]

On this week’s podcast, the Prof and I talked ab it about Bear Sterns, but I don’t think either of us really saw the massive write-down that came this morning. Here, via Atrios, is a key distinction when it comes to bailouts:
The Fed has no idea of which other primary dealers may [...]

The only thing weirder than Paul Giamatti playing John Adams is that the Postal Service is using the miniseries to extol the virtues of letterwriting:
HBO and the Postal Service are joining forces for the first time to co-sponsor a multimillion-dollar multimedia campaign that is intended to evoke the pleasures of sitting right down and writing [...]

The Postal Service understands that less mail means less work:
A plan to help New Yorkers keep unwanted mail at bay is encountering resistance from the very organization in charge of delivering it: the United States Postal Service.
Facing a potential $1 billion deficit, the postal service is fighting back against a proposal to create a “do [...]

The Hollywood Reporter has a hilariously biased piece on Rick Boucher, who would succeed Rep. Howard Berman on the House subcommittee on intellectual property (Berman is a Hollywood ally):
Succession is less clear at the copyright subcommittee as the next in line there is Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va. Boucher is a long-term advocate of expanding the [...]

This is a little off-topic for this blog, but since we’ve been covering the Microsoft-Yahoo! deal in the podcast, I thought it might be relevant to note that Microsoft is buying Danger, Inc., the company that makes mobile phones including the popular “Sidekick.”
What I find interesting is that Google had already hired away [...]

It’s a weird world we live in where the best analysis of the Microsoft-Yahoo! merger is written by a Forbes journalist pretending to write in the voice of Apple CEO Steve Jobs, but here you go:
The problem is [Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer] has no vision, and no imagination. He’s all left brain. Hence [...]

I just got done telling somehow how if Hillary were elected, Bill Clinton would be one of the greatest ambassadors the Oval Office ever had:
Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the [...]