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Nov 3 2009, 4:41 pm
Crazy Rumor of the Day: Does Google Want to Merge With the New York Times?
Did someone CNBC really suggest that the New York Times might be a takeover target for Google? That seems entirely crazy. Forget whether such a merger would make sense; the New York Times cannot be sold without the approval of the Sulzberger family, which seems unlikely to emerge unless things get quite a bit more dire.
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Mother And Child On The Road 11.24.09 2:34 P.M.
The War of the CBO Directors 11.24.09 2:02 P.M.
Sarah Palin, Worst Veep Pick Ever? Not So Fast. 11.24.09 2:11 P.M.
Journalism Dudes... 11.24.09 2:02 P.M.
Manufactured failure #6: the wrapup 11.23.09 10:22 P.M.
Who Created Major Hasan? 11.24.09 9:20 A.M.
Putting the 9/11 plotters on trial 11.24.09 11:22 A.M.
The War of the CBO Directors
The debate over healthcare has pitted Democrat against Republican, Conservative Against Liberal, Young against Old . . . and CBO Director against CBO Director. Obviously Peter Orszag, who is now the head of Obama's Office of Management and Budget, is...
Saab May Be Dead
Reports this morning indicate that General Motors' talks to sell Saab have failed. Now GM must decide whether to keep Saab, try to sell it again or wind it down. Just yesterday I mentioned GM's troubles. It's disappointing to see...
Risk, Cost, and Obligations
Confused? Here are some common misconceptions about financial symptoms.
Don't Worry About The FDIC
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's insurance fund has entered negative territory for the first time since the savings-and-loan crisis. It's in the red by a whopping $8.2 billion. But don't worry: deposits are perfectly safe. Still, this accentuates the need...
Megan McArdle on Health Care, Debt and Obama
Megan McArdle of Atlantic Business debates The New Republic's Noam Scheiber on Bloggingheads....
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Larry Summers on the Global Economy
White House economic adviser Larry Summers on why open markets, global integration remain key to global prosperity....
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Eric Schmidt on the Future of the Internet
Google's CEO speaks to the Atlantic's James Fallows at the First Draft of History about how the Internet will continue to change our lives in wild and unexpected ways....
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Is Obama Anti-Business?
Austan Goolsbee defends the president's policies at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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