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Crovitz: Will Regulators Unfriend Facebook? Wall Street Journal By L. GORDON CROVITZ This was the best of the Wall Street jokes about last week's $100 billion-plus valuation for Facebook. The punch line is a reminder that the company's business model relies on 900 million people continuing to share personal details ... |
 USA TODAY | Jokes and sympathy _ Obama greets his G-8 guests KGWN President Barack Obama on Saturday pointed again to the multi-billion-dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase as a reason Congress should retain and continue to implement Wall Street reforms. President Barack Obama says the big trading loss at JPMorgan ... Obama sees 'emerging consensus' on economic fix |
On Our Radar: When the Boss's Joke Falls Flat Wall Street Journal (blog) The Wall Street Journal has the full breakdown. – Melissa Korn The New York Times looks at Asana, a service founded by a billionaire Facebook co-founder, which seeks to streamline workplace tasks with features like shared to-do lists. |
 Globe and Mail | What Mark Zuckerberg should do now after Facebook's fumbled IPO Washington Post (blog) A company that had been the belle of the ball is suddenly the brunt of jokes. (Actor Al Brooks on Twitter: “When Facebook gets to $9 I'm in.”) But what's the response been like inside Facebook HQ? The Wall Street Journal reports that employees are ... Facebook IPO Leaves Everyone Shamed |
Letterman, Romney, and false class consciousness Human Events Both Letterman and Romney, along with the great majority of celebrities in both entertainment and politics, are comfortably part of what the Obama-endorsed Occupy Wall Street movement would call the “One Percent.” Everyone else is supposedly lumped in ... |
 The Fiscal Times | When This Hedge Fund Star Talks, Wall Street Listens The Fiscal Times Jokes made the rounds about the market-moving potential of even his most offhand remarks: Someone, it's said, bumps into Greenspan at a Kennedy Center performance, and asks how he's feeling. Pause. “I'm not allowed to say,” Greenspan replies, deadpan. |
Markets Live: Shares resume May drop Fairfield City Champion On Wall Street, shares closed flat, with Facebook slumping for a second day, down 8.9 per cent. 12.13pm: Like shares, the dollar has come back a bit but is still hovering below 98 US cents, last trading at 97.71 US cents. 11.59am: In what could point ... |
 Smithsonian (blog) | Summer Movie Forecast: More of the Same Smithsonian (blog) A Wall Street Journal report on Monday noted that box-office receipts are up 15.7% over last year, and if the trend continues, movies could earn close to $5 billion this summer. With Friday's opening of Men in Black 3, the blockbuster season is ... |
Our View: May Day actions set Occupy back Freeport Journal-Standard When the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors took to the streets last year, we made our jokes. We said things like, “it must be nice to have enough time to protest, too bad the rest of us have to work.” We laughed at the absurdity of the daily clips of ... |
JPMorgan Loss A Blessing In Disguise? Lez Get Real In our minds, Wall Street was a place where people traded shares in real companies that made real products or provided real services. In our minds, banks were where we deposited money and drew interest on it, and where we arranged loans and lines of ... |
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