Thanksgiving Week News Roundup
Holiday week workdays are a special time when the business world pretty much comes to a halt, and those unlucky few still at the office already are dreaming of sugar plums because no one will answer their emails or phone calls.
In that spirit, check out ways you can make the most out of the Thanksgiving week if you are stuck at work:
http://lifehacker.com/5097283/get-your-act-together-thanksgiving-week
The news keeps on going, however…
ABC has decided against picking up “Pushing Daisies,” “Dirty Sexy Money” and “Eli Stone” for full-season orders. If you watched those shows, you were apparently not alone.
http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/11/abc-no-pickups.html
Hannity and (fill in the blank). Colmes splits the top-rated Fox News team after 12 years. Hopefully they will find a replacement, even I can only take so much William Ayers talk.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/24/alan-colmes-leaving-hannity-colmes/
Update: Supposedly going solo according to the NYT report..but perhaps not?
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/25/nyt-hannitys-going-solo-fox-news-not-necessarily/
Check out Black Friday ads over at http://dealnews.com . Hopefully you’re checking it out on a Blackberry because you’ll need to already be in line to have any shot at this stuff.
Wal-Mart has a pretty sweet digital catalog you can look at. And there’s no way in heck you’re going to be able to physically overtake that lady who “wants one for her baby boy.” Catalog is linked on this site: http://dealnews.com/Wal-Mart-posts-Black-Friday-ad/263039.html
I worry about what our Socialistic policies and tax code will do to our competitiveness in the global economy, but then I always forget that Europe will stay one step further than us, then I relax. Britain may raise the top earner tax bracket to 61%.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/budget/3513516/Pre-Budget-report-National-Insurance-rise-adds-to-high-earners-woes.html
This weekend’s big release, Four Christmases starring Vince Vaughn, is apparently not very Christmas-y and about as fresh as the leftovers you’re going to eat Friday for lunch even though you forgot to put them back in the fridge.
http://aintitcool.com/node/39215
Ouch..and the beating continues … http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/four_christmases/
Vampire movie Twilight takes box office with insane 70 million dollar debut. Laughs all the way to the blood bizank.
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/11/borept-twilight.html
Speaking of Vampires, I embarssingly watch True Blood on HBO (I accidently caught it one Sunday night before Entourage and got “sucked” in). The season finale was last night, here’s a wrap-up if you’re one of the way too many who watch this show..
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/11/true-blood-fina.html
Dow’s biggest two-day run since 1987 means hold on to your something, because it always goes up when we bailout someone, and then everyone sells immediately to make some profit.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/24/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?cnn=yes
Video of the Day – SNL, Big Three Auto Bailout Hearing
Hang on to something…
- Dow Jones
After a US stock market free fall the past two weeks (with the dow now below 9000 points), right before the weekend the Asian markets opened Friday with a crash not seen in decades. Keep an eye on your money today. I guess the government bailout, the billions in government loans, the billions in government stimulus checks, and lowering of the government interest rate isn’t doing the trick. Get ready to pay more taxes (if you have any money left) for the government to try to plug the hole they caused. Oh wait, it was the free market’s fault.
Like the last major national catastophe, when the world said “we are all New Yorkers” it is noted today deftly in the telegraph that We’re all socialists now, comrade.
Tickers
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=apBR9iTfMQbI&refer=worldwide
Bottom Line – Why is it that we’re hearing from Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Harry Reid (??), Nancy Pelosi, George Bush, John McCain, and Barack Obama on what should be done? Where’s the economists or anyone that has a track record of any kind of economic results or who has managed a business? The greatest economic crisis of our lifetime and the biggest set of lost political stooges concerned about re-election and protecting the institutions they drilled into the ground.
Kinda wishing you voted for Mitt Romney aren’t you?
