Scott Jagow

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Morning Reading

Dec 22, 2009
Good morning. A few items to start the day; a couple of them are funny. Others, not so much:...

Health care under the tree

Dec 21, 2009
Ho, ho, ho. The Senate will most likely stuff a health care bill down the chimney by Christmas. Is it a gift to the American people? Or a bag of...

Gold's the winner, stocks the losers

Dec 21, 2009
With 10 days to go in the "aughts" decade, it's pretty much official. This has been the worst calendar decade for the US stock market. Ever. And...

Morning Reading

Dec 21, 2009
Good morning. Hope you had a good weekend. Here are a few things to get the week started:...

The latest half-baked idea

Dec 18, 2009
Some people in Congress want to build more commercial real estate. Go ahead, read that sentence again. A new Senate bill offers a strategy for...

A boring old Christmas

Dec 18, 2009
And that's a good thing. Banks are taking it easy on the holiday events this year. Many of them aren't even remotely touching anything that...

It ain't easy being green

Dec 18, 2009
This is sort of a follow-up to yesterday's discussion about "creative destruction" -- new technologies replacing old ones. You know those energy...

Get your hands off my carrots!

Dec 18, 2009
The latest craze in China is online farming games. This is no joke. These games are so popular and addictive that the Chinese government had to...

The bottom of the barrel

Dec 17, 2009
A once-proud newspaper has been reduced to begging for donations. The Miami Herald ...