If I decide to trek to my local post office in New York, which is located nearly 20 minutes away, I feel compelled to bring along a survival kit and K-rations. Beforehand, I clear my schedule for the

Once upon a time, the United States Postal Service couldn’t be stopped - not by rain, snow, sleet or hail. Now, with a budget collapsing under the weight of bureaucracy and a myriad of alternat

Just thinking about the post office can give you the willies: Its mind-numbingly drab interior, the lines upon lines of automatons shuffling blankly along, hoping that the edgy folks on the other sid

The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

To drill or not to drill? What's good for offshore drillers such as Transocean (RIG), Noble Corporation (NE) and ENSCO (ESV) isn't necessarily good for consumers. Even a major oil discovery off the co

South Africa’s electricity provider, Eskom, was given permission to raise prices another 13.3 percent (starting in July) after already being given permission to raise prices 14.2 percent, for a

Social networking is moving from infancy to adolescence, as the market landscape evolves and competing business models vie for superiority.Venture capitalists are betting LinkedIn can thrive in an inc

Hello from New York where, whatever "life-related" challenges I might be presented with today, at least I'm not FedEx (FDX). In addition to FDX's much publicized earnings warning this mornin

Citrix Systems (CTXS): Just yesterday this stock was downgraded. In the interview with Reuters the CFO is calling for a strong second half, though he cited continued sluggish results in the U.S. Virtu