Carlsberg has mercilessly shut down the historic Tetley on Leeds brewery in an effort to cut costs in a belt-tightening economy. Yeah, yeah the loss of a historic brewery like Tetley; which has been brewed on the site since 1822 and will be moved to some other brewery down south. I guess in these wonderful [...]

Wow. From October of 2003, George W. Bush — Economic Super Hero.

More like the Bush Ka-BOOOM!

Its like Superman losing the Fortress of Solitude or the President being evicted from the White House: Michael Jackson appears to be losing his famed Neverland Ranch.
“You are in default of a deed of trust …,” Jackson was told in the five-page filing, according to a copy of the document published by FoxNews.com. “Unless [...]

At a news conference in Brooklyn, state Atty. Gen. Andrew M. Cuomo said the arrests served as a message that “organized crime still exits. . . . We like to think it’s a vestige of the past. It’s not. It is as unrelenting as weeds that continue to sprout in the cracks of society.
Seems the [...]

I needed a 5th or 6th lesson on how to read the Daily Racing Form—through a strange twist of fate, work is sending me to the track. Lo and behold: the DRF itself supplies a fantastic online tool.
How to Read the DRF [Drf.com]

From the New York Post:
In recently filed court papers, Elisa Kwon accuses her former beau Greg Calvino, 45, of reneg ing on a pledge he had made to not “use drugs, stay out late, frequent strippers or prosti tutes.” The 30-something Kwon insists Calvino had vowed that if he ever did any of those things [...]

Ric “The Nature Boy” Flair, former pro wrestler, has opened up his own finance company, specializing in the “Figure-4 Process.”
Their tagline: “We compete so you don’t have to. Woooooo!”
Company Page [RicFlairFinance.com]

I get some of my best ideas and worthwhile news feed from Live Journal. The trick, of course, is being connected to people who are infinitely smarter and more plugged-in than yourself, even if by two or three degrees of separation. Most of the rest of it is egocentric though often amusing crapola.
There’s Nick Currie, [...]