Remember the good old days when bands made money from album sales? As a reasonably successful bassist who goes by the name Paul McCartney once said, “John and I literally used to sit down and s

The video-game industry has been living on a prayer all year, but Activision (ATVI) managed to squeak past expectations with a solid third-quarter earnings report. Fourth-quarter earnings guidance wa

Editor's Note: The following was posted in real time on our premium Buzz & Banter (click for a free trial). It's being shared here for the benefit of the Minyanville community.Hello from Midtown

Photo by Andrzej Grygiel/AFP/Getty Images “U2 were never dumb in business,” Bono told music journalist Michka Assayas in the book Bono. “We don’t

Editor's Note: This is the third in a series on luxury travel bargains. Did you hear that the recession is over? Well, the travel industry hasn’t gotten the news. They’re still flying on

Editor's Note: “Memoirs of a Minyan” is a first-person account that follows Minyanville founder Todd Harrison as he weaves his way through Wall Street and beyond. This e-Book will publish

Bush's "ownership society" has collapsed under the dead weight of debt. There's just too much debt and too little income to support it. Please consider President shifts focus to renting, no

Editor's Note: This is part 1 of a multi-part series. See part 2 here.A few weeks ago I first used the term “statistical recovery” to describe the nature of today’s economic environ

Greetings from New York, where I’m getting my feet back under me after a short, intense, trip to Canada for fishing. I was hot and raining in Canada and it was still easy to stay dryer than it

As an addendum to my suggestion that there may be far less equity for REITs’ shareholders than the stock price may suggest, last night, the Wall Street Journal reported that Maguire Properties