When Goldman Sachs analysts suggested last week that oil could hit $200 a barrel, I expected someone somewhere to express horror at the possibility. But the reaction was a tiny, resignation-filled sigh. Relentless fuel-price increases have so exhausted consumers that we don't have the energy to be outraged anymore. So we feel helpless as we watch oil sprint past the $130 mark on its way to price-prohibitive territory and wonder whether it's too late to bring back the horse and buggy. Our sense of helplessness is an illusion: There are things we can do. We got ourselves into this mess, mostly through multiple administrations of politically comfortable but shortsighted decision-making. And inasmuch as we're willing to stand a little political discomfort, we can get ourselves out.
The amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne is back, and this time he clobbered Homer Simpson on his way to scoring the biggest film opening ever for the month of August.
As television heavyweight "Seinfeld" returns to prime time this week, viewers are reminded of the impact sitcoms have on pop-culture psyche -- and their contributions to our vocabulary.
In Sergio Leone's magnificent Western, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach are hunting for stolen gold. The treasure, they discover, is buried under a headstone in a huge...
Many Americans want to look more like Jessica Simpson than Homer Simpson. And that's been bad news for doughnut maker Krispy Kreme. Investors have taken a more than 45 percent bite out of the stock this year.
LISA FERNANDEZ Long Beach, Calif. The two-time Olympic gold medalist in softball will try for a hat trick in Athens. The 33-year-old pitcher has also set up an international amateur softball tourna...
The new Vice Fund invests in companies deriving revenue from "products often considered socially irresponsible," including alcohol and tobacco. But if you really want to be bad, these stocks each o...
WHOA! YOU KNEW SOMEthing was happening in 1995 because practically every time you turned on TV, you saw the folks at the New York Stock Exchange milling around like ants and heard the ding-ding-din...
When Goldman Sachs analysts suggested last week that oil could hit $200 a barrel, I expected someone somewhere to express horror at the possibility. But the reaction was a tiny, resignation-filled sigh. Relentless fuel-price increases have so exhausted consumers that we don't have the energy to be outraged anymore. So we feel helpless as we watch oil sprint past the $130 mark on its way to price-prohibitive territory and wonder whether it's too late to bring back the horse and buggy. Our sense of helplessness is an illusion: There are things we can do. We got ourselves into this mess, mostly through multiple administrations of politically comfortable but shortsighted decision-making. And inasmuch as we're willing to stand a little political discomfort, we can get ourselves out.
The amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne is back, and this time he clobbered Homer Simpson on his way to scoring the biggest film opening ever for the month of August.
As television heavyweight "Seinfeld" returns to prime time this week, viewers are reminded of the impact sitcoms have on pop-culture psyche -- and their contributions to our vocabulary.
In Sergio Leone's magnificent Western, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach are hunting for stolen gold. The treasure, they discover, is buried under a headstone in a huge...
Many Americans want to look more like Jessica Simpson than Homer Simpson. And that's been bad news for doughnut maker Krispy Kreme. Investors have taken a more than 45 percent bite out of the stock this year.
LISA FERNANDEZ Long Beach, Calif. The two-time Olympic gold medalist in softball will try for a hat trick in Athens. The 33-year-old pitcher has also set up an international amateur softball tourna...
The new Vice Fund invests in companies deriving revenue from "products often considered socially irresponsible," including alcohol and tobacco. But if you really want to be bad, these stocks each o...
WHOA! YOU KNEW SOMEthing was happening in 1995 because practically every time you turned on TV, you saw the folks at the New York Stock Exchange milling around like ants and heard the ding-ding-din...
Rush Limbaugh, radio/TV personality and author: "My strategy is preservation of principal. Cash is king! I am bracing for a major deflationary cycle throughout 1994. I have inquired of a number of ...
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