This over-hyped annual ritual involves inexperienced reporters cribbing the guesstimates of NY-based analysts about the prospects for Southern California merchants. Good luck sorting that out.

Obama's misleading comments show either an appalling ignorance of his own plan or a willful distortion of the law's confusing facets. Either way, it's not great. However, it's not the whole story.

Virgin America's preparations for catastrophe have never been so entertaining. Too bad the airline needs more than a floor show.

The policies typically provide scant coverage - frequently lacking maternity care or mental health benefits, for example. Dumping them was one of the ideas behind the Affordable Care Act - or as Suzanne Somers claims in a WSJ oped, the nation's march toward socialism.

New bosses, in politics or business, are often conflicted about who to keep. The obvious reflex is to select your own people, but many of these jobs require an institutional knowledge that can take months or even years to pick up.