July 17 - July 23, 2011
Friday, Jul. 22
Here we have Chevy, Dinah Shore, and what probably looks like another planet to anyone younger than... well, never mind.
Very nasty stuff and the timing for investors isn't great.
Shameless promotion time: Amazon is pushing my wife Laura Levine's first book in her long-running Jaine Austen series (Jaine's mother was an Anglophile and a bad speller.)
The Dodgers owner cannot use the loan he had arranged to operate the team.
Southern California companies raised $739 million in the second quarter.
What it all adds up to is a simmering jobs recovery that's nowhere close to boil.
NFL players slow to sign deal, decent marks on CA budget, condos may be coming to Century Plaza, and Minkow sentenced to 5 years.
June's 11.8 percent unemployment rate is second highest in the nation.
Thursday, Jul. 21
The worry is that a debt ceiling impasse will rock the financial markets.
He's due to be sentenced next month for wire fraud, but that won't be the end of case.
Indexes are inching closer to three-year highs, despite the overall jobless recovery.
Council vote probably won't happen until mid-August.
Seems like only yesterday when cotton prices were soaring, and retailers were stuck having to either jack up their own...
President Obama and Speaker John Boehner might be nearing an agreement.
Here they're being interviewed about a month ago on Chinese TV.
More layoffs dampen recovery, electric cars will cost more in CA, Scientology holdings in Hollywood, and Katzenberg says movies "suck."
Wednesday, Jul. 20
At issue is whether owner Frank McCourt or MLB finances team operations.
It actually makes sense when you think about it.
"Rarely, have I encountered such swagger," said the former president of Harvard.
A setback in Hilton's long-running efforts to show the world that she's not the rich, self-involved brat we think she is.
Modest improvement in local economy, Dodgers and MLB duke it out, AEG's downtown condos are flops, and Calpers not happy with Murdoch.
Tuesday, Jul. 19
It doesn't get much better than this - as usual.
It's the biggest one-day gain since December
A little-noticed shift is taking place between baby boomers and younger households.
If there are signs that the worst is over, it's a huge positive for the state and local economy.
All of a sudden there's a $3.7 trillion deficit-reduction plan that's getting bipartisan support in the Senate.
The bankrupt bookstore chain had been one of the major outlets for periodicals.
Murdoch on the defensive, B of A reports big loss, new deputy mayor for economic development, and get ready for some pro football.
Monday, Jul. 18
Sorry folks, you can't access CNN on your iPad.
Chris Matthews interviews anti-tax goon Grover Norquist.
I'd be willing to bet a few dollars that Murdoch's days are numbered. Just a matter of time.
In a nutshell, no one wanted to take a chance on a retailer.
What a difference a cooperative stock market makes.
Frank McCourt calling some other entity the devil? Now that's chutzpah for you.
It's not so much the cuts themselves, it's the timing.
This morning's petulant attack against the world has been getting lots of attention.
Why so little hiring, Borders nears liquidation, Socal office market still struggling, and Frank McCourt asks for lower spousal support.
Sunday, Jul. 17
That's the word from Caltrans, a remarkable development in a weekend filled with remarkables.
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