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Yeah she’s only 4′9″ but let’s see you do this: Sports Illustrated That’s the chippy Ms. Johnson during her gold medal balance beam routine (click here for the the full story). After Johnson secured a gold medal in these games, I guess it’s safe to say that the Coca-Cola curse is no curse at all.

From our international banker this morning: The U.S. economy may yet slip into recession, but inflation is an even bigger risk given the “exceptionally” stimulative stance of monetary policy, Richmond Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Lacker said on Tuesday.

Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew the Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion 's price decreased by 14% from $13.72 to $11.82 at Buy.com. In the tradition of Andy Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive, this book presents the colorful, entertaining, entrepreneurial tale of a company that grew from nothing to $30 ...

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Big business marketing and advertising are much more Pavlovian and much less magical and postmodern than most critics have claimed. If you doubt this, consider how television advertising, the endeavor that funds and delimits almost all the program “content” on US television, actually functions.

I'm sorry we freaked out a bunch of people in the design community by running a contest to redo our homepage. There might have been a right way to do this thing, but we didn't do it the right way. The discussion that unfolded on QBN and elsewhere brought out a lot of strong feelings and raised a number of issues.

[Cross-posted] Remember Xanadu? It’s become somewhat of a cult hit even though in 1980 it was considered Olivia Newton-John’s mega-turkey. Stylistically, it sits uncomfortably between the 1970s and 1980s, as though there was a vacuum in between the decades.

Exxon Mobil reported the fattest operating profit in U.S. corporate history Thursday but took a beating anyway — from politicians railing against Big Oil, drivers bleeding cash at the pump and investors who expected more.

This episode of The Listening Post takes an in depth look at Iran and its relationship with the media, past and present. Part 1 Part 2 The above videos were sent to me this morning by a fellow Blogger named John who manages the site the Patriotic Activist.

A recent email correspondent challenged a frequent assertion of mine:   that one of the most effective weapons we have against corporate power and its intellectual mouthpieces is to demonize the neoliberals in terms of their own professed “free market values,” and show them up for the corporate welfare parasites they really are.