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...like investment bankers, and I say this with humility. Investment bankers always have No. 1 market share because they only count the deals that they do. Similarly media moguls look like geniuses because they only talk about the deals that went well. The best example of that is when [News Corp. CEO Rupert] Murdoch bought MySpace - and it's rumored Tom Freston lost his job [as Viacom CEO] over not buying it - everyone talked about MySpace and how smart that was. But several weeks apart from MySpace News Corp. spent even more money on an Internet game company called...
...does all of that fit in with the good news we keep getting about home sales and prices? It seems if the housing market recovers, that should help the foreclosure situation. It should help. Ironically enough, I think foreclosure sales are contributing to home prices stabilizing. In one way, we have certain markets that may have overcorrected. If you go to a Stockton, Calif., or a Las Vegas or somewhere like that, when there is a bank property on the market, the realtors are getting dozens of offers above asking price. We're seeing bidding wars at the lower...
...long way away. A lot of people make that assumption that everything I'm doing is moving toward that. The truth is, I'm having a great time doing what I'm doing on [ABC] Radio five days a week, on television on the weekends with Fox News, with my writing and speaking. I'm enjoying the fact that I'm not getting hammered every day by political opponents. It's kind of nice, actually. (See 10 Questions for Mike Huckabee...
...Those revelations, as well as the disclosure that he failed to pay rent on an apartment at several points earlier this decade, have hardly helped Pugh's candidacy. In recent days, the editorial boards of both the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News pulled their endorsements of him. (The Free Press wrote: "It's simply unreasonable for Detroiters to trust him with their city's finances after he so negligently managed his own.") Pugh dismisses the criticism, and says his financial troubles will actually endear him to voters in a city experiencing some of the most extreme effects...
...auto-plant worker, committed suicide. After being primarily raised by a grandmother, Pugh got a ticket out of Detroit with a scholarship to the University of Missouri's journalism school. He then built a successful television-reporting career in Indiana and Virginia before joining the local Detroit Fox News affiliate...