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...reluctance has not been to back away from his idea; instead he just keeps reiterating its benefits and feasibility. "Maybe I didn't explain what I was trying to explain very well," he said in New Orleans on Thursday, before trotting out a middle-class family that would profit from his plan. "Let me start over." It is an axiom of politics that the side in trouble always uses as its first excuse that it has got a communication problem, not a substance problem. So Bush figures that if he could just explain his tax cut better, the voting public...
...particular party has $908 million left in the bank. Its cash flow is at negative $400 million for the year--ugly, but Amazon doesn't expect to bleed much more. Its annual debt service is $150 million. No wonder the company is quietly shifting gears in the drive toward profitability. Eagle-eyed analysts have seen a slow, steady price rise on high-profit stuff like electronics. And the enormous premium that Greenlight.com is paying for placement on the site could be a sign of things to come, says Mike May, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications. "Increasingly, retailing is a Trojan...
...recall is taking its toll on the bottom line. Ford Explorer sales are slipping, and Bridgestone announced on Friday that profit in the first half of the year fell nearly 50% as a result of the recall...
...Which brings us to the biggest storm cloud out there: The economy, is she slowing too fast? Formerly high-flying retailers - Gap, J.C. Penney, Target, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart (yes, Wal-Mart) - have been getting downgraded by analysts and dumped by investors, as profit warning after profit warning comes out. When this consumer-driven economy cools, it's the malls that feel the pain first...
...afford to keep up? The hundreds of protesters gathered for a rally outside Dancers' Group on its final night knew the culprit all too well: those well-funded, profit-challenged dotcoms. "They come here for the freak culture, but they don't realize they're destroying it," thundered a speaker to rapturous applause...