As president of the second largest bank in the world (Chase National) when the stock market crashed in 1929, Albert Wiggin had the vice president of the New York Stock Exchange go to the floor of the exchange on “Black Thursday” and very publicly buy large blocks of shares in major American corporat
Foreclosures, which are spreading by epidemic proportions, now affect nearly one in every eight American homeowners. The labor market is deteriorating at an even faster rate, with the jobless rate jumping to 8.
I love Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies. Luckily for me, one of my coworkers brought in several boxes of the delicious cookies she ordered weeks earlier. When I was handed a box, I noticed that they appeared smaller than last year.
While in downtown Los Angeles one Thursday, I had three hours free between the training sessions I was presenting and decided to take the DASH bus and discover more of the area, all in a quest to use public transit more and ditch my car.
These days, who would have the gall to announce they’re planning to build a new and very limited-edition sedan which will sell for $2 million? Alfred DiMora, that’s who.
The “For Lease” signs are going up with greater regularity each day. The “For Sale” signs are getting dusty, all over town. Businesses are closing. Deflation is happening all across the board, that process whereby prices drop in order to get something going.
Last Tuesday, the City Council took a good idea — Exposition Light Rail extension into Santa Monica — and set the stage for decades of disaster. In making recommendations to Metro about its proposed Expo service into Santa Monica, the good news is council unanimously voted to vigorously oppose the l
Ohio police recently stopped a woman who was using her hand-held cell phone while driving. What’s so unusual about that? She was not only driving and talking on her phone, she was breastfeeding her baby at the same time.
Following up on last week’s column, I have great news and “annoying” news. The great news is single mom, C Smith, won her court case and will not be evicted from the Santa Monica apartment she’s lived in for the last 14 years.
While corruption has been a way of life in Mexico historically, the dominance of drug cartels there now amplifies the corruption, putting the beleaguered country at a dangerous tipping point.
If once is a fluke and twice is a coincidence then three times must be a conspiracy. The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Awards won’t be announced until April 20, but I already know I didn’t win because for the third year in a row I missed the entry deadline.
There is a great scene in the movie “Casino” where Robert DeNiro’s character, Sam Rothstein, is appearing before the Nevada Gaming Commission which is considering his application for a license.
