Archive for February, 2009
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Just a quick reminder that today is National Pancake Day and IHOP is giving away a free short stack from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Yum. [IHOP] (Thanks, Jonathan!)
AIG. Nobody Wants to Hear it Anymore.
I think I can speak for a lot of people, maybe most people when I say, I don’t want to hear about AIG’s problems anymore. Their systemic risk should be eliminated by now. If it’s not then current Secretary of the Treasury and former President of the New York Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner should resign [...]
Fosters Drinkers Defeat Grocery Shrink Ray [Grocery Shrink Ray]
When Fosters switched to 330ml from 375ml while charging the same price, consumers let their discontent be known in a highly visible fashion: they stopped buying it. Fosters reported a 33% drop in sales and some retailers reported up to a 50% drop. In response to the steep drop-off, Fosters is going back to 357ml. [...]
WSJ is Reporting Citigroup and Government Talking About Increased Government Stake in Common.
From Bloomberg News;
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. is in talks with federal officials that may increase the government’s ownership of the bank, the Wall Street Journal said, citing unidentified people familiar with the situation.
AmEx Pays Some $300 To Zero Their Balance And Leave [American Express]
American Express is so desperate to clean liabilities off its balance sheet that it’s paying some customer $300 if they will pay off their balance in full and close their credit card. The offer is only good if you get a card in the mail from them about it with a 14-digit RSVP code. Thanks [...]
A Day In The Life Of Comcast’s Frank Eliason [Twitter]
Ever wonder what it’s like to be Comcast’s resident Twitter wizard, Frank Eliason, for a day? BusinessWeek did, so they sent a reporter to watch Frank, described as a “maverick,” spend a day responding to scorned customers.
CNN Explains: "Living Within Your Means" [Back To The Basics]
In case anyone forgot how the global economy came to teeter on the brink of collapse, CNN recently needed to help a reader figure out the difference between “living within your means” and “living below your means.” Let’s see if we can’t constructively add to the conversation…
"All We Need is One More Pin Timmy!"
So the story swirling around this afternoon is that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will take his mulligan from his February 10th “mishap” and give us some details on the Financial Stability Plan. After a morning of envisioning Citi and BofA getting nationalized as early as this weekend (personally I’ve been envisioning Citi since December) we [...]
California’s Anti-Violence Video Game Law Thrown Out [Video Games]
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a 2005 California law that prohibited the sale or rental of violent video games to minors is unconstitutional, saying that the “lawmakers failed to produce evidence that violent video games cause psychological or neurological harm to children,” and that there were other ways to deal with [...]
Facebook Won’t Let You Remove Dead Relative’s Page, Per "Policy" [Facebook]
Facebook thinks it knows better than the sister of the deceased journalist Bill Bemister about what to do with his Facebook page. Stephanie Bemister sent them a copy of his death certificate and asked it get taken down for privacy and respect purposes. Unlike every other single social networking site she dealt with, Facebook said [...]
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