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  • See if you can figure out the theme of my After the Bell podcast by the songs you'll hear in it: "The Other Side" by David Gray, "Stayin' Alive" …

  • As the unemployment rate has gone up, so has the number of people volunteering. In March, Americorp said applications almost tripled. And this…

  • Yes, this is a story about Nevada and gambling. It also includes three people whose last names are, seriously, Redd, Black and Green. Our Senior…

  • Fortune has a fantastic article today called "How Bernie Did It". It's the most comprehensive look yet at this strange man and why his Ponzi…

  • Apr 24, 2009

    Morning Reading

    Chrysler has six days. There's still the glimmer of hope for a deal with Fiat. But more than likely, Chrysler is going bankrupt.. Other things…

  • I just thought this was amusing. The Economic Times has a list of the 20 worst CEO's of all time. They include Lehman CEO Dick Fuld, Angelo…

  • Credit cards rates and rules seem to be the issue du jour. The President met with credit card issuers today and said he would push for new laws to…

  • This is a cool story. A biomedical engineering student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has come up with a way to Twitter just by thinking…

  • Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis has revealed his version of what happened behind the scenes of the bank's deal to buy Merrill Lynch. The Wall Street…

  • Apr 23, 2009

    Morning Reading

    The eyebrow raiser of the morning is the WSJ story on Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis. Lewis claims Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke pressured him to…