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Sep 4, 2010
Home buyers, sellers out of sync (Washington Post)
Dina ElBoghdadyJack Donnelly put off selling his Capitol Hill row house for three years until he thought he saw glimmers of life this spring in the housing market. The tax credit and low interest rates were added motivations, she said. Home prices may rise, she said, "but they could also...
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Sep 4, 2010
Los Angeles Times Tom Petruno column (Los Angeles Times)
A report Wednesday on August manufacturing activity was stronger than expected. It shot up 4.4% over the last four days. The Republicans might have preferred to enter election season with the economy sinking and stocks still mired in their recent malaise. Private-sector job growth resumed last...
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Sep 3, 2010
Postal Service seeks key concessions as contract talks open with largest union (Washington Post)
In the last round of negotiations, management won a 1 percent per-year reduction.
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Sep 1, 2010
Could investors fleeing stocks become a lost generation? (USA Today)
They are paring back on stocks and stock funds they already own. Nothing illustrates Main Street investors' diminished appetite for stocks more than the dollars flowing in and out of mutual funds. It might take a scary stock market swoon that knocks the price-to-earnings ratio back to...
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Aug 29, 2010
Los Angeles Times Michael Hiltzik column (Los Angeles Times)
At the time, Page and Brin explained the slogan broadly, as doing "good things for the world" even at the risk of short-term gains. Right now, one thing that keeps the Internet operating as a level playing field is that everyone has to play on the same field -- entrepreneurs, Google, and Google's...
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Aug 26, 2010
Consumer Confidential: Cable companies make price comparisons difficult:: (Los Angeles Times)
Verizon was offering a sweet-as-you-please deal of $89.99 per month for the first year of bundled TV-phone-Internet service.But Sanders knew better. What if, like Sanders, a customer knows from the get-go that he's interested only in the $89.99 base plan? She said the commission is taking a...
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Aug 24, 2010
Los Angeles Times David Lazarus column (Los Angeles Times)
Now he wanted to add TV to the mix. Sanders, 53, was in luck. Verizon was offering a sweet-as-you-please deal of $89.99 per month for the first year of bundled TV-phone-Internet service. But Sanders knew better. But I'll get back to what federal and state regulators had to say in a moment....
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Postal Service Outlines 10-Year Plan to Address Declining Revenue, Volume
March 2, 2010 — Facing unprecedented volume declines and a projected, cumulative $238 billion shortfall during the next decade, Postmaster General John E. Potter today outlined an aggressive plan of cost cutting, increased productivity, and an array of legislative and regulatory changes...
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