Is this our first early evidence of how petrodollar recycling turbocharged the tail of the real estate boom?
Category Archives: The Market
Limited Parking
I just came across a story in the Guardian with some great photos illustrating an interesting problem caused by the economic slowdown. It seems that the arrival of the slowdown was so abrupt that auto manufacturers didn’t really have time to adequately ramp down production. Now, I know what my ever-so-intelligent readership is thinking: “Duh,Continue reading “Limited Parking”
ExecutiveBomb.com
Ever want to complain about a company, but feel like the Customer Service people just aren’t going to pass the message along? Find the e-mail addresses of the executive of the companies you are dealing with all within a single site. Executivebomb.com has a searchable database of exectives at over 800 companies.
Time-Warner Merger Trivia
At the time (pun intended) it was the largest corporate merger in US history. For some reason the lawyers were able to convince the shareholders that a merger of the two companies would be hugely profitable for them. Synergies would abound! Redundancies would be found! Efficiencies would know no bounds! In fact, for a while,Continue reading “Time-Warner Merger Trivia”
Yahoo! Should! Sell! Flickr! To! Facebook!
Let me be the first to say that – in an otherwise cash-strapped startup world – new Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz’ first stroke of genius should be to offer up Flickr to Facebook. It’s also, by the transitive property of social-networking, a good way to get a little M$ cash into Y!.
