Business Pundit

In lay terms, a bailout is just another kind of subsidy. We’ve been bailing out corn, which appears in everything from soda to ethanol, since around 1933. Why not pull the plug on one bailout–corn–to finance the current one? From the… Read more

Cola is bad for you, but cow pee cola is very healthy, according to a group who wants to sell it as an elixir in India. From the UK Telegraph: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, India’s leading Hindu cultural group, has developed Gau Jal or Cow… Read more

The inimitable Ben Stein writes about why cap and trade is a bad idea: Two main ways to address the issue are under discussion. One would involve a nationwide system of credits for carbon burning, with a total cap. The credits would be traded… Read more

Worried about the state of your 401K? We all are. But there’s no need to panic. Chances are, you don’t need to use all of your 401K savings at once. If you take the right steps, your 401K investments will have a chance to recover. Below are five… Read more

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A couple of months ago, media reports slammed American Express for canceling slews of customer accounts, seemingly at random and out of the blue. Now, they’re offering some customers $300 to pay off and close down their accounts. From the… Read more

I’m currently visiting Dubai, a beautiful and fascinating place. A few days ago, a group of us decided to visit the cocktail lounge in the Burj al Arab, which advertises itself as the world’s only seven-star hotel. It is shrouded in… Read more

A Thomas Cook travel agent booked a client on a trip to San Jose, Puerto Rico instead of Costa Rica, where the client requested to go. From the UK Telegraph: Samantha Lazzaris booked a trip of a lifetime to Central America but ended up in… Read more

Found this odd claim reported in the Christian Science Monitor: In San Diego, mobile users pay more than $3 per minute on average. The Utility Consumers’ Action Network surveyed 700 cellphone users and found that the average cellphone bill… Read more

Ready to pay more in airline fees, thanks to government sloth? The Economist reports on an upcoming increase in aviation fees: …if the American government’s “Aviation Passenger Security Fee”, currently at $2.50 for each leg of travel, is… Read more

South by Southwest (SXSW) is a unique event that combines music, film, and digital media into one massive, 4-day series of events. Each of the three South by Southwest event categories have their own conferences, festivals, and trade shows, so… Read more

If your home was foreclosed in 2008, you should have received Form 1099-C from the mortgage holder. Yes, on top of the loss of your home and the situation that caused it, now you have to deal with income tax ramifications. Mortgage… Read more

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Pharmaceutical companies Merck and Schering Plough are merging to create another pharmaceutical giant (a la Wyeth and Pfizer in late January). MarketWatch has the details: Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Inc on Monday said it will buy… Read more