Uncommon Money News (Vol 40)


By: Roshawn Watson

In preparing to write my posts, I often come across noteworthy and sometimes bizarre financial and business news. Below are links to some of these sites. Enjoy!

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Posts of the week
Guess how bad 2008 S&P; has been If seeing is believing, this pic will do the conversion.

Business

Tribune company files for bankruptcy

Amheuser Busch to cut 1500 jobs

Dow Chemical to cut 5000 jobs

New ruling could spell the end for Bratz dolls

Bid to save GM dies in the senate

Netflix to Layoff 50

Tribune bankruptcy snares employees

Does Merill Lynch CEO deserve a $10 million bonus for averting what could have been a bigger crisis?

Economy
Has the IRS been secretly decreasing corporate taxes

Is Warren Buffet Insane

This Year 1.9 Million Job Shed

Why those grocery prices might remain high

Could gas drop to under a dollar?

Office Depot closing 112 stores and firing 2200 employees

KB Toys Files For Bankruptcy

Foreclosures spike 76% to record 1.35 million

Could dollar devaluation be what we need to fix the economy

When a job disappears, so does health care

Entertainment Money News

Christmases is number one in box office again

Katie Holmes is Broadway Gold

Offbeat Money News

Honest woman finds $97,000 in restroom and returns it