OK, So These Guys Don’t Look as Bad As Charlie Rangel
Image via Wikipedia In this story today The New York Times laid out yet another not-so-subtle way that lawmakers allow themselves to be influenced by corporate donors. Essentially a corporation...
View ArticleJerry Flint and Pamela Anderson: A Match Made in Detroit
Jerry Flint, who passed away over the weekend, dropped by the Forbes office last week for his regular visit, picking up magazines, submitting invoices and gabbing with colleagues about this or that...
View ArticleJerry Flint, Toyota and Big Feet
Image by Getty Images via @daylife The latest findings out of Washington on Toyota’s safety issues largely confirm what Jerry Flint, our longtime auto writer who died Aug. 7, felt and wrote. The...
View ArticleJerry and Kate: A Forbes Love Story
The following remembrance of Jerry Flint, the longtime Forbes auto writer who died Aug. 7, is from his wife Kate McLeod: We Might Have Met at Forbes I first saw Jerry Flint talking and gesticulating...
View ArticleWomen May Be Bad Tippers But They Easily Beat Men in Charitable Giving
Who gives more? If you listen to conventional wisdom women, when compared with men, are lousy tippers and cheap with their charitable dollars. Turns out the latter charge may be a myth. A new study,...
View ArticleNames You Need to Know in 2011: The Civilians
This post is part of an ambitious project to crowd-source the December issue of Forbes Magazine. Click here to submit your own ideas for Names You Need to Know in 2011. In October the National Science...
View ArticleGoldman, Target Rapped for “Worst” Contributions in 2010
Image via CrunchBase Companies spend a lot of money and brainpower trying to be good corporate citizens. But in their creative zeal they do some really dumb things. That’s the view of the folks at...
View ArticleHow Law Schools are Ripping Off Students, Enron-Like
Image by Getty Images via @daylife The New York Times ran an excellent piece this morning that spells out in great detail how many of the nation’s law schools are essentially like bad vocational...
View ArticleIs Apple’s iPhone a Scrooge?
Image via CrunchBase Apple doesn’t allow nonprofits to include a direct donation system in the phone’s applications, according to this article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The author, Vincent...
View ArticleWill The Conviction Of ‘Bad Boy’ Ross Mandell Fix Anything On Wall Street? Do...
Last week Wall Street “bad boy” Ross Mandell finally got nailed. A federal jury in New York convicted him of running an eight-year scheme to defraud investors of some $140 million. He used the money...
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