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...FTMarketWatch.com (quietly falcoed into the Financial Times' main site). But surprise: Breakingviews - a three-year-old, London-based site offering financial commentary, claims to be actually making money. Editor Hugo Dixon, a veteran journalist who wrote the FT's Lex column for many years, says the company made a profit in the fourth quarter of last year and expects one this quarter. "We're doing on-the-day financial commentary, focusing on a professional audience," boasts Dixon. "All of those elements are key to allowing us to survive." How did they do it? By defying nearly every convention...
While other labels flounder in today’s dismal economy, Compass’ ship sails away with profit on 95 percent of its releases. Brown emphasizes that though her band records through Compass, it’s not a vanity label. Indeed, the Compass website doesn’t even advertise Brown’s records on its homepage...
This argument is a little too convenient, because there's little automakers are expected to do about fuel prices. And it's unlikely that cheap gas really bothers the industry, since the most gas-gorging SUVs have had huge profit margins. Until the recent economic slump and the new era of 0% financing, buyers were willing to pay a premium for autos that aren't very difficult to build. "Take a normal sedan or truck, and just whoosh--blow some air into it--and add a little dimension off the ground," says Nissan's Hirshberg, who designed the Pathfinder. Manufacturers...
...about reporting their expected tax. This is less of an issue in the U.S. because of different guidelines and the nascent stage of biofuels as a whole. Home brewers play an important part in the promotion of biodiesel, as their passion is focused on sustainable fuels, not just on profit. This keeps us off the Mideast-oil addiction and thus out of a "Big Oil" war. JAMES SLAYDEN, NETWORK ENGINEER San Jose, Calif...
Feinstein praised the Ivy League model of athletics for putting the interests of student-athletes first and staving off the forces of corruption he said have hurt much of the NCAA. He pointed to corporate greed as the driving force behind the for-profit professionalization of amateur athletics and cited declining academic standards and low graduation rates as its fallout...