The New York Times

Let’s make a deal: New York Times Bonds?

By Tom Teicholz at 16 February, 2009, 10:52 am

This monring’s New York Times brings a profile of Carlos Slim the Mexican billionaire who has recently invested in the New York Times. The article explains that in return for his $250 Million Slim is getting a 14% return — HOLD ON THERE!!!! 14%!!! Let’s stop for a minute. The last few years with hedge […]

Mentalist, schmentalist

By Tom Teicholz at 15 January, 2009, 11:19 am

I watched CBS’ big “hit” the menatlist last night and couldn’t quite my head around it. On the positive side Simon Baker seems to have finally mastered an American acccent an ability that seemed to elude him in previous try outs. But he seems to spend too much of the show smirking, and making inappropriate […]

Krugman’s Nobel; Krugman’s WPA

By Tom Teicholz at 15 October, 2008, 10:09 am

For some time now, I’ve been telling my friends how much I follow and respect Paul Krugman’s column in The New York Times. Although many complain that he is too left, I felt he was not political — he was just right — I mean correct. Yesterday Krugman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. […]

9.16.08

By Tom Teicholz at 16 September, 2008, 2:57 pm

Wowie Zoe!Ginia Bellafante takes stylist Rachel Zoe to talk — Zoe has a reality show — and apparently it amkes the mistake of showcasing Ms. Zoe as he really is — and bellafante offers up some blistering commentary Financial free fallcontinues. This morning at one of my local breakfast haunts, my waitress told me that […]

Bruccoli: The Fitzgerald expert

By Tom Teicholz at 11 June, 2008, 3:38 pm

In the New York Times books blog, paper cuts, Rachel Donadio has a nice obituary reminiscence about Matthew J. Bruccoli, the Fitzgerald expert, who wrote many many volumes on F. Scott,, particularly about his time in Hollywood. In high school I was a Fitzgerald fanatic, and wrote a big senior essay on Fitzgerald (although I […]