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May 11 2008 5:07 PM EDT

Love Conquers All, Even Murdoch-Sulzberger Feud

You know how European monarchies used to use marriage as a tool of diplomacy, pairing off princes and princesses from rival nation-states to seal new treaties? I thought of that today when I read this. The offspring ... Read Blog

May 11 2008 1:30 PM EDT

Blogonomics: FT Alphaville

FT Alphaville is hiring, and I took the opportunity to ask its fearless leader, Paul Murphy, a few questions about the FT's flagship blog operation and the way that bloggers are treated at the pink 'un. Here ... Read Blog

Economics
May 9 2008 5:34 PM EDT

Legalizing Insider Trading, With a Catch

Following up on Felix's case for why insider trading should be illegal, allow me to paraphrase another argument along those lines: Imagine four types of investors: - noise - those who trade on information they believe to ... Read Blog

May 9 2008 4:14 PM EDT

How to Spend Your Weekend

Once upon a time the world was one, at least geographically. All land masses on Earth were united in a supercontinent that scientists have named Pangaea. The unity suggested by that idea has been adopted to promote ... Read Blog

Technology
May 9 2008 9:28 AM EDT

Bill G Puts Faith In "Microsoft Innovation"; Rest of Us Wonder if That's an Oxymoron

From way over in Indonesia, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates let it be known that Microsoft never needed to buy Yahoo to make headway in search and advertising. It just kind of wanted to. "We have always felt ... Read Blog

Entertainment
May 8 2008 5:12 PM EDT

Sumner Redstone's Song of Himself

Normally these days, Sumner Redstone, at 84, prefers to run his schizophrenic media empire from his hilltop retreat in Los Angeles, taking breaks, per Bryan Burrough's razor-edged 2006 profile in Vanity Fair, to take nude swims in ... Read Blog

Politics
May 8 2008 11:23 AM EDT

The Last Clinton Election

If you take the Clinton brand out of politics, it's worth asking how the Clintons changed the marketing and branding of politics. Read Blog



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