| Jan 18, 2010 | Economy / BusinessIn Alice in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty declares: “When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.” Well, get ready to tumble down the semantic rabbit-hole again, for giant corporations are trying to co-opt the meaning of one of...
| | Economy / BusinessWhat may be the dumbest corporate merger of all time—the $165 billion deal that saw AOL gobble up Time Warner a decade ago—ended just before the holidays, when AOL formally spun off into a totally separate company. That AOL-Time Warner merger had been a disaster for...
| Jan 14, 2010 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThis article was originally published in The Huffington Post on 1/13/10. Over 40 years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, his words still speak to the social conditions that so many Americans face. Our unemployment rate is hovering at 10 percent,...
| Jan 4, 2010 | Economy / BusinessIt’s a good thing my long-haired calico Hyacinth can’t read the newspaper. Otherwise I’m sure she’d be deeply offended by all the recent headlines about “fat cats.” President Obama used the derogatory term in an interview on...
| Dec 28, 2009 | Economy / BusinessIt’s bad enough when a person drowns in debt. Shockwaves multiply when a corporation teeters on the verge of failure. The economy becomes even more agitated when a country declares bankruptcy, as Iceland did in 2008 and Hungary and Latvia almost did in 2009. But...
