As the global financial crisis continues, the advertising environment for the near future is looking increasingly grim. Next year already faced tough comparisons with this year's Olympics and political ad spending, but now with the economy in flux (and that's putting it nicely) the ad industry is going to be in bad shape.    Read More

A realtor I know says he did a short sale on a home. The mortgage was for $1.9 million, but he got a buyer willing to pay $1.5 million CASH. It took 18 weeks to close! For an all-cash deal!    Read More

Former President Bill Clinton is offering some bailout reading recommendations today on his new blog.   Read More

Four months ago, I said that watching the Kimbo Slice fight live was one of the most exciting sports events I had ever witnessed. I said this because I was so intrigued with this guy -- his look, his homeless story, his YouTube following.    Read More

In transit today to Iowa, where I will report live tomorrow. I will be following up with John Hoffman, President of the American Soybean Association, and Ron Litterer, who heads the National Corn Growers Association.   Read More

For months I've been covering Yahoo and Google's planned advertising partnership and the controversy surrounding it. After Google CEO Eric Schmidt said they're moving ahead with the partnership even without DOJ approval, the companies are changing their tune.   Read More

The research group looked at movies that opened on 1,000 or more screens between 2003 and 2007. Nine films in the $90 to $100 million range posted an average net profit of $374.7 million, and 80 films costing more than $100 million showed average profitability of $282.3 million.    Read More

BW probably did as best as they could. I was pleased that they took the time to put together a vast panel to actually do this instead of do what other publications do--just rank it all themselves and call it a day.    Read More

It's a tough time for newspaper and magazine publishers. This week, "The Sun," the six-year old daily newspaper, printed its final paper. The conservative-oriented paper searched for new financial backers for nearly a month, and finding no private equity interest, had to shut down. Meanwhile Variety, the 103-year old Hollywood trade publication, can't find a buyer.   Read More

Now is the time to fake it. Now is the time when businesses and bosses are looking for winners not whiners. Now is the time to dig deep in order to get ahead.    Read More