From the blog Pink Slip: I was in CVS the other day – looking for Good ‘n Plenty, if you must know – when my eye was grabbed by a bright blue box that held a fish plaque that plays the McDonald’s “Give Me Back That Filet-o-Fish” jingle. Only $19.99! If people are back to [...]

Harry Markopolos, the man who tried futilely for 10 years to expose the largest Ponzi scheme in history, has written a book about his failed crusade called “No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller.” In it, Markopolos relives his tragic tale, how he discovered Bernard Madoff was a fraud, how he tried for years [...]

Everyone knows by now that Joe Biden salted his introduction of President Obama at the signing of the health care bill with a comment he thought was off-mic: “This is a big f**** deal.” The Brian Lehrer Show has asked listeners to submit haikus about health care reform using Biden’s faux pas as the middle [...]

Three days ago we posted an editorial from David Frum’s web site called “Waterloo,” in which the conservative pundit asserted that Republicans had committed an enormous tactical error in refusing to negotiate with Democrats on the health care bill. Now Frum has lost his job at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. Frum [...]

The advertising, marketing, and media blog Thought Gadgets posts on a dust-up between users on the Nestle fan page on Facebook and a company rep. The Nestle page has been the target of an online anti-deforestation campaign by Greenpeace, as described here by the site Web Strategy, which also lays out a response plan for [...]

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FraudBytes, maintained by an accounting professor and accounting PhD student, aggregates news reports on corporate governance, corruption, and general white collar malfeasance. There are 43 posts alone on Bernie Madoff, including this one on a recent Wall Street Journal article about Madoff’s being beaten in prison. The earnest tone of the blog is typified by [...]

Great Gawker article called “The Eight Types of People to Unfollow on Twitter or Defriend on Facebook” drew this user comment: I’m interested to know how many people were unfriended this week in the wake of the health care law passing. I’ve been seeing a lot of crossfire on my rss feeds lately! And yes, [...]

Found on The Awl: Salon readers respond to an article Hipsters on food stamps, subtitled “They’re young, they’re broke, and they pay for organic salmon with government subsidies. Got a problem with that? ” Think of it as the effect of a grinding recession crossed with the epicurean tastes of young people as obsessed with [...]

Normally, the only time I am interested in currency policy is when I look into my wallet and wonder where mine went. But here’s an interesting series of posts on what to do about the artificially low rate of China’s renminbi, which the country keeps pegged to the rate of the U.S. dollar. By keeping [...]