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Stewart summed up the significance of what Cramer had said on the tape: “You can draw a straight line from those shenanigans to the stuff that was being pulled at Bear and at AIG, and all this derivative-market stuff,” he said sternly. Except that you can’t draw any such line. In the video, Cramer hadn’t […]

The Web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on a computer. No longer just a tool for perusing or searching for information, it has become, for many people, their principal communications medium, their photo album, their newspaper, social club, bank and shopping mall.

“For the first time since last fall’s election, Democrats and the Obama administration are backpedaling furiously on an issue easily understood by financially strapped taxpayers: $165 million in bonuses paid out at bailed-out AIG.” After a dozen or more mistakes that in retrospect look minor (see below), this could be a big one.

Always an ideas leader, but rarely a money/marketing leader, Sun practically gave away some of their best creations. Now, IBM is prepared to scoop up the company for around $8B when it was once worth $205B during the bubble days. A wise man once said: if you’re good at something, never do it for free.