We all watch the shows where financial experts tell us how to invest our money.   We watch Jim Cramer or Suzie Orman, and we listen to others on the radio, read them online or in the financial papers.   We read their financial newsletters, oh sage-like documents that they are, and sometimes we follow their advice.  [...]

There has been a marked change in the weather.   At the Weather Channel that is.  NBC Universal had bought the Weather Channel back in September.   Now come the layoffs and the buyouts.  I suppose there is not enough weather to go around. While in this harsh economy it is necessary to cut costs, cutting staff [...]

The economy in bad, people are depressed, and no one is shopping.   Busy is terrible.  There are layoffs galore.  Maybe it is time to start a business. According to an article on AdAge CNBC Television has placed Donny Deutsch’s nightly business show on indefinite hiatus.  The show related to entrepreneurial success and provided what it [...]

For several blog pieces now I have taken note of the slaughter in the media industry.   The news industry, especially, has been decimated by layoffs and publication failures.   For every media group, it seems, laying off a thousand employees or more is only a start in the cost cutting.   Marty Pompadur, the exiting Chairman of [...]