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3 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘economy’

The Culture Wars Return

By Denis Campbell • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics
 

John McCain has abandoned any premise of controlling his campaign, his party or even his own destiny. As Charley James writes today, he has chosen an obscure, mean-spirited and vindictive running mate who, as more and more reporters scrape back the patina and veneer of, seems frighteningly similar to the current resident of Navy Observatory [...]



…in this Economy

By Denis Campbell • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Business
LinkedIn is a social networking site where busy professionals meet to puff up resumes, brag and, in theory, exchange ideas whilst looking for new work. It just received $1 billion dollars in financing to upgrade/add features and looks another questionably valued high cost web 2.0 takeover or ipo candidate in the coming 12-18 months. Every so often they send [...]



Delta/NW Combined $10.5 Billion Dollar Loss

By Denis Campbell • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Business
The late Senator Everett Dirksen said, “a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.” When two airlines who cannot make it alone talk about merging and faced with these kind of losses, the question that is not asked but should be is, why?