| (vanityfair.com) | The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but the repercussions will be felt beyond the lifetime of anyone reading this page | (212) | |
| Dubai picks Airbus A350 over Boeing 787 for $35 Billion deal. Boeing CEO reportedly seen putting on golden parachute | (10) | ||
| "Islamic Car" unveiled. Features include compass to Mecca, space to keep a Koran headscarf, built-in suicide bomb | (258) | ||
| Disney sued for banning Segways used by the disabled. That's just goofy | (130) | ||
| (Some Guy) | NBC tells Tivo to suck it and drops commercial in the middle of "Heroes" | (38) | |
| "Subsidizing middle-class housing will not help the market readjust. The fact is, if middle-class people cannot afford middle-class homes, [it's because] they are overpriced" | (41) |
| (Some New Yorker) | Eight commandments for eating well at airports. Best bets: Chinese, McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts coffee, and corndogs | (28) | |
| Mastercard: Priceless. Visa: $10,000,000,000 | (18) | ||
| (Gamespot) | News Corp to revive game publishing division. Announced titles include "Dance Dance 9/11" and "Liberalkiller 2007" | (24) | |
| (Bloomberg.com) | The economist and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Stiglitz, says that Venezuela's economic growth in recent years has been "impressive.'' Oh come on, what does a Nobel Prize winning economist know about economic growth? | (82) | |
| Rocky Raccoon checked into his room, only to find...ummm..... | (26) |
| MySpace becomes MyPhishing epidemic | (40) | ||
| NASDAQ has worst weekly point loss since 9/11. PANIC time? | (21) | ||
| Will everyone predicting easy victory of Blu-Ray over HD-DVD please step forward. Not so fast, Sony | (43) | ||
| Health Net paid bonuses to employees based on how many health policies of patients needing expensive care were cancelled. But thank God we don't have to deal with the evils of socialized medicine | (98) | ||
| Oil prices continue to fall from their record high down to under $95 a barrel on news that... wait, what? | (18) | ||
| Will there be a disaster in the markets today? *shakes magic 8-ball* All signs point to yes | (34) | ||
| Brazil discovers huge new oil reserves. US: "Hey guy, how's my favorite country?" | (42) |
| Oil prices about to increase due to the tidal wave in England. No, really | (10) | ||
| Ah, the joys of modern air travel. Airlines are now purposefully flying with less fuel to get priority landing when/if they arrive at their destination | (122) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Knock me over with a Loonie: Idiot Bernanke says the economy will slow down (read: Recession, biatches) | (31) | |
| TiVo announces plan to whore out you and your data to advertisers | (41) | ||
| (Sohl Studio) | Applebees, Ruby Tuesday and Chili’s are apparently less healthy than McDonald's | (74) | |
| Dick Cheney's Ouija board, in its customary spot in the middle of the floor, suddenly stirs. As the VP looks on in silent horror, it begins to spell something: B-E-R-N-A-N-K-E-M-U-S-T-D-I-E | (48) | ||
| Generation X has no retirement plan, probably because we've come to the conclusion we'll be at our desks till the day we die to pay for a house, college loans and the Baby Boomers' excesses | (89) | ||
| AIG becomes the latest company to lose billions due to the subprime meltdown | (14) | ||
| (Bloomberg) | Morgan Stanley CFO says that it might take up to a year for them to figure out how much money they're going to lose due to the subprime meltdown | (11) | |
| (Bloomberg) | The new bankruptcy law that makes more people pay their credit cards has backfired on banks because of higher foreclosures | (40) | |
| (Bloomberg) | Apple stock keeps going up because they get a chunk of the revenue from service with AT&T | (7) | |
| TomTom raised its bid for Tele Atlas to $4.25 billion, escalating a global takeover battle for the software that power those GPS thingees | (7) | ||
| The top 50 business brains: If Gates is No. 2, who could be top? No, we've never heard of him either | (23) | ||
| (business & media) | Jim Cramer calls New York AG Cuomo a communist and a poopie head | (32) | |
| (Deutsche Welle) | Internal probing shows Siemens scandal messier than previously thought. Penis | (5) | |
| Eisner proclaims Bazooka Joe is the new Mickey Mouse. Gasps of shock fall on deaf ears as CEO chomps away on hard crappy gum | (14) | ||
| Morgan Stanley to take a $3.7 billion charge related to the subprime meltdown. Since Citicorp and Merrill Lynch have taken almost $30 billion in charges, the stock market should react favorably | (7) |
| NYSE eliminates trading curbs with no warning whatsoever. Get ready to party like it's 1987 | (28) | ||
| (Gamespot) | Atari may have run out of quarters. Again | (28) | |
| U.S. productivity jumps 4.9 percent during the last Fark outage | (6) | ||
| D'oh Jones Industrials plunge 360 points in late, heavy volume | (19) | ||
| (TG Daily) | AOL loses one third of its subscribers in one year. The other two subscribers have no idea they are still subscribed to AOL | (201) | |
| (Some Guy) | Seven nations that might abandon the U.S. dollar. Everybody loonie | (80) | |
| (Myway) | Time Warner profits drop 53 percent, cable service still blows | (18) | |
| NASDAQ orders a Philly Exchange, wiz wit | (21) | ||
| Housing and credit crisis over. Just kidding, Greenspan is not "sanguine" about it | (26) | ||
| Valero Energy's profit dropped 20.6 percent in the third quarter due to weak refining margins that hurt the industry | (13) | ||
| Microsoft's CIO gets CTRL+ALT+DELETED | (29) |
| GM takes third quarter charge of $39 BILLION. Making cars that nobody wants somehow not to blame for once | (23) | ||
| Wall St is worse than a crack whore that needs a daily fix. They are already asking the fed for another rate cut | (19) | ||
| Judge in Ebay trademark appeal case says you can have whatever website name you like..... as long as it doesn't have the word 'bay' in it | (26) | ||
| Micron CEO turns down bonus due to bad year, will somehow make it on the $8 million in compensation he was already paid | (67) | ||
| Why Apple will be bigger than Google | (125) | ||
| If you rely on Jim Cramer for stock advice, you are losing $72,000 in "opportunity lost" per year to underperform the S&P 500 BOO-YAH | (23) | ||
| (Bloomberg) | The dollar is projected to continue losing value against the euro, on the realization that the Federal Reserve is more interested in propping up unresponsible lenders than in preserving the value of the currency | (40) | |
| Federal Reserve says they have not seen evidence of "serious spillovers through the broader economy from the... tightening of credit." It helps if you go outside once in a while, brainiacs | (17) | ||
| (Inc.com) | A wireless plan that has no early termination charges, no bizarre overage fees and no aggrandizing claims about coverage? This could be your new wireless carrier and every carrier -- by law | (49) | |
| (Some Guy) | The dollar fell to a record low against the euro on speculation losses from the subprime-mortgage defaults will grow, prompting the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, again | (18) | |
| Oil rises to $96 a barrel on news that Al Gore's daughter is writing a screenplay | (7) | ||
| (Bloomberg) | Crude oil rose on speculation that U.S. inventories declined for a third week on news of a storm at sea and the writers strike | (6) | |
| (Orange County Register) | New report shows the British are reclaiming America by secretly opening Tescos | (7) | |
| PepsiCo reorganizes, transforms itself into three-headed junk food marketing monster | (2) | ||
| Gas prices could hit $4 a gallon next summer. EVERYBODY PANIC | (56) | ||
| The top 11 most depressing cubicles, not including the one you're sitting in at the moment | (29) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Web Bubble 2.0 is upon us but nobody gives a crap. Subby cries on his Pets.com IPO stock | (8) |
| PCs are not big in Japan | (50) | ||
| Richard Parsons to step down as CEO of Time Warner, earns himself 100 free hours of golf | (2) | ||
| Newspaper circulation falls more than 2% - this story brought to you by the Internet | (3) | ||
| Exit the warrior / Today’s Tom Sawyer / He gets high on you / And the house that you trade / He gets by the tax before the day | (10) | ||
| (Some S-Mart Guy) | K-Mart is not going HD-DVD exclusive, after all. The 10 people who shop there shrug in response, continue with their crushed, empty lives | (13) | |
| Pimco's boss: Credit markets face another $250 billion in defaults over the next two years, indicating that the worst of the subprime crisis is yet to come | (9) | ||
| If Jay-Z decided to flash euros instead of dollars in his new video, what would you think? If you choose "he's predicting a recession," you're not alone. In other news, Jay Z = Alan Greenspan | (29) | ||
| (Some Guy) | IRS translates tax law into Chinese, Korean, Russian and Vietnamese; no word yet on English | (15) | |
| The recent spike in oil prices might not be connected to supply concerns or global events. Instead, it might be traders artificially inflating the price. Color me shocked | (10) | ||
| Analyst single-handedly causes $369 billion market decline with negative Citigroup report. Bonus: She's married to WWE Champion wrestler Layfield | (25) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Eighteen years later and Exxon still hasn't paid the $5 billion a jury said it should pay (later reduced by a judge to $2.5 billion) for the Valdez oil spill -- and now they might get out of paying that, too | (187) | |
| Burger King profits are up on news of expanded menu, the King executing unprofitable customers | (5) | ||
| Storage company EqualLogic asks: Who needs a $120 million IPO when Dell will buy you for $1.4 billion? | (6) | ||
| For those hoping Robert Rubin would regain his role as Sec. of the Treasury, you'll have to put your dream on hold. Rubin named interim Chairman of Citigroup to assist in its total collapse | (3) | ||
| Merrill Lynch reaches out to a Fink and says "the position of CEO is yours, if you want it." How fitting | (1) | ||
| And the prize winner for "First Nation With A Company Worth Over $1 Trillion" is... China | (17) | ||
| Wall Street should ready itself and grab its ankles as banking sector confidence slides | (21) | ||
| (Some Guy) | The surprise ingredients that McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Subway and KFC are hiding inside your food | (66) |