This morning's talk is, inarguably, The New York Times's profile of Tina Brown and the demise of Newsweek, which has been sold again. The article is not entirely flattering of Brown; but that hardly means that the famed editor who revitalized The New Yorker and founded The Daily Beast has much patience for detractors.
And the smallest device is quickly becoming the biggest.
Barry Diller was finally able to correct a mistake on Saturday when the business mogul finally sold the digital remains of Newsweek to IBT media, the owners and publishers of the International Business Times.
Behold the power of plausible deniability.
The Weinstein brothers are potentially reuniting with with the film studio that made them millions and solidified their names as major players after an ugly eight year separation.
It's a personality, not policy, contest
The recovery might be leaving the long-term unemployed behind and on on their own
On the one hand, ordering most of your household staples from Amazon could decrease congestion and car use, since you're not taking anywhere near as many trips to the store as you used to. On the other, all those Amazon deliveries could just as easily be increasing congestion by putting more UPS trucks on the road.
With the fracas in Washington over how to stop student loan interest rates from spiking, there’s more attention than ever on the student loan “bubble.” To pinpoint apt solutions, it’s worth considering the college loan issue as a version of two already irksome public policy problems: the debt dynamics of the mortgage bubble and the third-party-payer problem of the health care system.
About 162,000 people found new jobs last month (which is good), but that's a lot fewer than economists were expecting (that's bad), even though the unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level since the end of 2008. (That's good! Unless it isn't.)
Steady, unspectacular growth continues, and low-income jobs lead the way
It was the shadow banking more than the bubble that was the problem
Factory workers assembling the Moto X will make as little as $9-an-hour, if the help wanted ads are to be believed.
Each time The New York Times's earnings come out, the journalism world holds its breath for a few seconds the way people do when they're about to find out if they have some life-threatening disease. It's that time of year again, and today's diagnosis revealed the Gray Lady hasn't kicked her malaise—ad revenue is down for the 11th straight quarter, but the good news is more people are paying for the best journalism in the country.
The city's East 4th neighborhood is a mixed-use gem that draws young professionals downtown.
The recovery has been weak, but it wouldn't be quite so if we stopped making it that way
White students are now more overrepresented at top U.S. colleges than in 1995.
Facebook stock briefly traded above its $38 initial offering price on Wednesday, before dipping back to close at $36.80, inspiring thousands of news reports, blog posts, and tweets. But what did it mean?
The "father of fracking" just died. How will his legacy, shale gas, shift the economy?
Guess what 'gravitas' is code for