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Moneybox 2007:
Daily commentary about business and finance.
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- On Second Thought, Annie, Don't Get Your Gun Hunting shops are having a bum year. Uh-oh.
Dec. 20, 2007 - Choosy Beggars In today's economy, Americans can't afford to be such snobs.
Dec. 19, 2007 - Heckuva Job, Bernanke! Is the Fed the new FEMA?
Dec. 13, 2007 - Worst. Forecasters. Ever? The cockeyed optimists of the National Association of Realtors.
Dec. 10, 2007 - Something Is Rotten in the State of New York Gotham's problems will soon be felt in the rest of the country.
Dec. 8, 2007 - Debt Be Not Proud The subprime mess is just the beginning of the credit crunch.
Dec. 6, 2007 - Moneybox Goes to Vietnam
Dec. 3, 2007 - Moneybox Goes to Vietnam From Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, China-bashing is very much in vogue.
Nov. 29, 2007 - It's Not You, It's the Deal Private equity firms find lots of ways to dump bad deals.
Nov. 27, 2007 - The Insatiable Consumer Ignore the naysayers. Nothing can stop the American holiday shopper.
Nov. 24, 2007 - The Mickey Mouse MBA What we can all learn from Disney World.
Nov. 10, 2007 - Weep for the Grim Reaper As cremation becomes more popular, funeral homes get burned.
Nov. 9, 2007 - Goodbye, Household Names. Hello, No-Names Why you haven't heard of Citigroup's new CEO.
Nov. 7, 2007 - Cry for Me, Argentina (and Russia and China) The return of price controls.
Oct. 30, 2007 - Leaving Las Vegas Explaining the gambling decline in Sin City.
Oct. 27, 2007 - Merrill's Peril Should Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal lose his job?
Oct. 26, 2007 - The Most Ridiculous Analogy The results of Moneybox's Fox Business Channel contest.
Oct. 25, 2007 - Did Roger Ailes Call the Market Top? The strange timing of the Fox Business Channel launch.
Oct. 22, 2007 - Solving "Fission Impossible" Is nuclear power's comeback for real?
Oct. 20, 2007 - The Spinal Tap Economy The real problem with the ultra-wealthy.
Oct. 18, 2007 - Protecting Paulson's Pals The subprime collapse didn't bother the Bush administration, until Wall Street bankers started whimpering.
Oct. 16, 2007 - CEOs for Clinton Even the ultra-rich are abandoning the Republicans.
Oct. 13, 2007 - The $5 Billion Mulligan Banks insist their credit problems are over. Why on earth do investors believe them?
Oct. 9, 2007 - Edison's Dimming Bulbs How Wal-Mart and the government are killing the incandescent light bulb.
Oct. 6, 2007 - Popcorn Is the ethanol boom going bust?
Oct. 5, 2007 - Innocents Abroad Why European banks were the big losers in the U.S. subprime meltdown.
Oct. 2, 2007 - The Great Inflation Fraud Why does the government pretend prices aren't rising?
Sept. 29, 2007 - Hedge Funds in Hollywood TV and movies have rediscovered Wall Street. Time to sell!
Sept. 26, 2007 - Strike Out The sorry little conflict between GM and the UAW.
Sept. 24, 2007 - An American Prius? Japanese automakers have crushed the Big Three with their hybrids. Here's how U.S. carmakers could catch up.
Sept. 22, 2007 - Fire-Sale Nation The alarming lesson of the iPhone price cut.
Sept. 20, 2007 - Margaret Mead in a Pinstriped Suit Alan Greenspan discovers that human beings are … irrational!
Sept. 17, 2007 - The Greening of Hype How solar panels generate more free publicity than clean electricity for businesses.
Sept. 14, 2007 - Getting Paid To Clean Up Your Own Mess Private equity firms profit from their own overreaching.
Sept. 12, 2007 - The Tao of Junk Pundits bemoan our trade deficit with China. But those container ships aren't heading home empty.
Sept. 8, 2007 - Hey, Big Spenders Will the rich save the economy?
Sept. 7, 2007 - The Empty 401(k) If White House press secretary Tony Snow won't save for retirement, why should you?
Sept. 4, 2007 - Take My Company, Please! The desperate corporations that will do anything to unload unwanted subsidiaries.
Aug. 30, 2007 - The Punch Bowl Caucus The motley collection of gazillionaires, conservatives, and industrialists begging the Fed to cut interest rates.
Aug. 27, 2007 - Christmas in August Who isn't getting paid next January?
Aug. 23, 2007 - Señor CEO More executive-suite imports.
Aug. 21, 2007 - Send Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Business Executives Why are big American companies hiring foreign-born CEOs?
Aug. 17, 2007 - How To Speak Hedgie What hedge-fund managers mean when they talk about challenges.
Aug. 14, 2007 - When Fools Rush In, The Joke's on Them Dissecting the Henny Youngman Economy.
Aug. 11, 2007 - I Can Get It for You Retail Rudy Giuliani's health-care plan is great for insurance companies.
Aug. 9, 2007 - Subprime Nonsense The Fed chairman and Treasury secretary say the subprime mess has been contained. Are they joking?
Aug. 6, 2007 - The Best of Flights, the Worst of Flights Flying is worse than ever for consumers—but more lucrative than ever for airlines.
Aug. 4, 2007 - The Jerk Premium How much extra did Rupert Murdoch have to pay to buy Dow Jones, just because of who he is?
Aug. 2, 2007 - Bogus Europe Envy What's behind corporate America's disingenuous new campaign to cut its taxes.
July 30, 2007 - The Real Morons of Orange County Why America's most reckless real estate investors come from Irvine, Calif.
July 26, 2007 - Blackstone, Meet Blackstone Could the private equity firm buy itself out?
July 23, 2007 - The Sinking Dollar Also Has an Upside The United States as cheap tourist hot spot.
July 21, 2007 - The Ethanol Backlash The environmentalists, economists, and poverty activists who are turning against corn fuel.
July 20, 2007 - The World's Worst Airline A TAM plane crashed in Brazil Tuesday. I wasn't surprised.
July 19, 2007 - Fifteen Dollars' Worth of Smug What a New York law firm's charity-lunch program reveals about America.
July 17, 2007 - Pret-a-Takeover Why foreign retail operations are moving in on U.S. consumers.
July 13, 2007 - The Softer Side of Sears Oh, no! Sears is still a retailer!
July 11, 2007 - The Barneys Mystery Why some companies just can't be killed.
July 9, 2007 - Barbarians on the Sofa Has Henry Kravis gone soft?
July 5, 2007 - Please Do Not Feed Bear Hey, how come that hedge fund got bailed out and I didn't?
July 3, 2007 - The Golden Ass How Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman's antics may cost him and his colleagues billions of dollars.
June 19, 2007 - The Twin Debacles How the housing collapse is like the Iraq war.
June 15, 2007 - Bush's War on Whole Foods The government's crazy effort to stop the organic chain from buying a competitor.
June 7, 2007 - Capitalism vs. Terrorism More and more American companies are buying terrorism insurance. Uh-oh.
June 5, 2007 - Suckers or Predators? Foreign governments are suddenly buying American companies. Should we worry?
June 2, 2007 - The Steakhouse Index Their stocks are down. Should we worry about the rest of the economy?
May 29, 2007 - Gouging for Eyeballs Is an online-ad firm really worth $6 billion?
May 24, 2007 - Insider Trading, Congressional-Style The silly effort to stop senators and bureaucrats from trading on their inside knowledge.
May 21, 2007 - Pop! Why bubbles are great for the economy.
May 9, 2007 - The Bubble Hall of Fame The most amazing bubble promoters of all time!
May 9, 2007 - Take the Bubble Quiz How much do you know about irrational exuberance?
May 9, 2007 - The Bush-Dollar Curve Obscure economic indicator: Does the dollar fall when the president is unpopular?
May 4, 2007 - Wall Street, Meet Fleet Street Rupert Murdoch might be good for the Journal.
May 1, 2007 - Big, Bad Wolfe Tom Wolfe's astonishingly lame hedge-fund article.
April 30, 2007 - Evian Criminals The new snob appeal of tap water.
April 26, 2007 - The Real-Estate Blame Game The unlikeliest victims of the housing slump.
April 24, 2007 - Obama Is Google. McCain Is GM. Presidential candidates as stocks.
April 21, 2007 - The Coming Tax Crash Are federal tax revenues on the brink of collapse?
April 12, 2007 - Fix the AMT (But Not Yet) The looming Alternative Minimum Tax catastrophe, and why the Democrats shouldn't try to prevent it.
April 10, 2007 - Branched Out The curse of the high-street bank.
April 6, 2007 - The Man in the Gray Gulfstream Can commuting CEOs succeed?
April 5, 2007 - Haunted Mansion A study proves that the bigger his house, the worse the CEO.
March 29, 2007 - The CD Is Dead! Long live the CD!
March 27, 2007 - The Unknown Financial Superhero The amazing story of William McAdoo, and how he saved the American economy.
March 22, 2007 - Attack of the Zombie Brands II More products that refuse to stay dead.
March 20, 2007 - Attack of the Zombie Brands! Why Tab, the Taurus, and so many other failed products are getting resurrected.
March 16, 2007 - Barack Obama and His Money He was a bad investor. But that will make him a better president.
March 13, 2007 - Subprime Suspects Wall Street firms that should have known better get slammed by the housing collapse.
March 12, 2007 - Takes a Licking and Stops Ticking Why you don't need a watch anymore.
March 8, 2007 - The Coming Wall Street Scandal Is it sleazy fraud or inadvertent error? You be the judge.
March 6, 2007 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil, and Trouble Uh-oh. The housing bust is just beginning.
March 2, 2007 - How Now Low Dow? Don't blame China for the stock market plunge.
Feb. 28, 2007 - The CEO Candidate How Mitt Romney's corporate success explains his campaign—and his flip-flops.
Feb. 26, 2007 - And the Oscar for Creative Accounting Goes To … Can PricewaterhouseCoopers be trusted to count the Academy Awards ballots?
Feb. 22, 2007 - Over the Hedge Signs of the coming hedge-fund apocalypse.
Feb. 13, 2007 - Hey Sucker Banking Corporation How a British bank blew it in America.
Feb. 9, 2007 - What if Putin Ran OPEC? The Russian president's plan to form a natural-gas cartel sounds terrifying. It isn't.
Feb. 7, 2007 - If the Iraq War Were a Corporation … How a real CEO president would turn it around.
Feb. 5, 2007 - Dump Truck The mysterious trouble in the trucking industry.
Feb. 2, 2007 - Nice Guys Finish First When did Super Bowl coaches and CEOs start being so … decent?
Feb. 1, 2007 - How to Buy the New York Times Co. If the Sulzbergers want to take their company private, here's a plan.
Jan. 26, 2007 - Look Who's Starting a Hedge Fund! Madeleine Albright's money machine.
Jan. 22, 2007 - Plutocrats of the People Why are America's superrich suddenly fretting about income inequality?
Jan. 19, 2007 - The Unwilling Americans More jobs the native-born won't do.
Jan. 18, 2007 - Free Beer! … And other perks CEOs get when they lose their jobs.
Jan. 15, 2007 - Dirty Work What are the jobs Americans won't do?
Jan. 12, 2007 - Snow Jobs Why Steve Jobs should be punished for the options backdating chicanery at Apple. And why he won't be.
Jan. 8, 2007 - The Whole Foods Story Why the elite supermarket's stock is tanking, and why it shouldn't be.
Jan. 4, 2007 - Air Heads The stupid law that prevents foreigners from buying U.S. airlines.
Jan. 2, 2007 - The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual Please do not buy hedge funds.
Jan. 1, 2007
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