Forecast: Layoffy, With A Chance Of Millennial Drought
In an interview with the Dubai-based Al Arabiya channel, President Obama urged Palestinians and Israelis to return to the negotiating table. [ Reuters ]
Layoff fever -- it's spreading! This hot new trend started in the mortgage and real estate sectors, but now manufacturing, retail, and IT are getting in on the action. [ New York Times ]
Four Democrats voted against the appointment of tax cheat Tim Geithner to Treasury Secretary. He was appointed anyway. [ Bloomberg ]
Barack Obama's "honeymoon" in Washington is long over, because he basically started running the country in, oh, October. [ MSNBC ]
We are on track to dwell in a post-apocalyptic hellscape of tsunamis and drought for 1,000 years, and basically nothing can change that. [ Washington Post ]
In the United States, people look at our failing newspaper industry and joke darkly about a newspaper bailout. In France, they are actuallydoinga newspaper bailout. [ Financial Times ]