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Financial Markets

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Early NFL Season Win Total Lines Have Brought Out a New Trash-Talky Side of Bob McNair

    "I think we are a contender, so that's no surprise to me. I guess they got tired of losing money out there, putting our over-and-under too low, so they're getting more realistic." -- Houston Texans owner Bob McNair trash-talking the oddsmakers when asked about the Texans' status as favorites in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg: 10 Reasons Why I'm Not Spending $40 To Buy A Facebook Share

    Here's a scoop: Facebook is having an IPO today. This under-the-radar stock sale will make billions for investors. Although everyone is keeping things on the down-low, the IPO means -- I'm guessing here, Wall Street is really not my forte -- that you can buy a share of Facebook stock, currently tra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Amazing Houston Business Journal Scoop: Onion Article Probably Not True

    Hold on to your hats, take a seat, take a deep breath, do whatever it takes to absorb some shattering news: An article in The Onion is probably fake. This earth-shattering scoop is brought to you by the Houston Business Journal, with an article entitled "Houston PR Pro Contemplates The Onion's Frac ... More >>

  • Music

    November 24, 2011

    Street Dogs

    Hold on to your hats, take a seat, take a deep breath, do whatever it takes to absorb some shattering news: An article in The Onion is probably fake. This earth-shattering scoop is brought to you by the Houston Business Journal, with an article entitled "Houston PR Pro Contemplates The Onion's Frac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Bill Moyers at Progressive Forum: An East Texas Sage's Optimism Twists in Today's Ill Winds

    Bill Moyers believes that the sun-baked scattered bones of Wall Street's carcass are being picked clean by "animal spirits" -- namely, hyenas, and that these scavengers believe that they are justified, indeed morally sanctioned, in behaving as such, and that nobody in government is willing or able t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street: 99 Percent Protesters March to City Hall for Occupy Houston

    See lots more pics of the protest in our slideshow. Joining a movement of protests across the country, several hundred Houstonians gathered at Market Square Park this morning to march to Hermann Square in front of City Hall, which they plan to occupy indefinitely in solidarity with the Occupy Wall ... More >>

  • Film

    September 15, 2011

    Sacrifice Nothing

    In the fantasy I Don't Know How She Does It, working moms can have it all.

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Robert Copeland: A Ponzi Schemer Gets Ponzi Schemed Out of $10 Million

    The Ponzi-er gets Ponzied. And pwned.​You are so freaking clever and smart that you have scammed $45 million out of 125 people in a Ponzi scheme. So when someone offers you a risk-free return of 30-40 percent on foreign exchange markets with a personal guarantee you will at least get your mone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Texas Cities and Nonprofit Entities to Get About $3.5 Million in National Settlement of JPMorgan Suit

    Settlement helps, a little.​Financial giant JPMorgan has agreed to pay $228 million to settle charges that it manipulated deals involving the government bond market, and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says the state's portion of it will be about $3.5 million. The money will go to Texas mu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Four Gung-Ho Patriotic Tunes That Are Actually British

    ​Monday, July 4th, you'll celebrate Independence Day. We say you'll celebrate it because we will have already done our celebrating on the proper day... July 2. That's the day the Continental Congress voted to tell King George III to kiss their grits. It's true that the Declaration of Independe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    For Friday the 13th: Five of the Unluckiest Texans Ever

    Investors held on too long.​Beginning with LaSalle, the French explorer who survived shipwrecks and cannibal Karankawa Indian attacks only to perish at the hands of his own men near Navasota, some people in Texas have had some pretty damned hard luck. You might lay some or all of the blame at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Is Blog Love Overvalued?

    ​It's funny watching new artists stumble over themselves trying to score coverage on popular blogs. Take the fast rising L.A. crew Odd Future, for example. Group captain Tyler, The Creator is almost as famous for his musical ingenuity as he is for his feud with revered rap blogs Nah Right and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2011

    Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

    Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    SexBeerandMoney.com -- The Ten Most Expensive Domain Names

    You'd be CRAZY not to want in on one of these domain names!​There was a time when a million bucks was a lot of money for a domain name. That's exactly what Cool.com went for back in 2000. Today, that's chump change when you are talking about the most expensive domain names on the Web. Keep in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Houston Is A Global City, Foreign Policy Magazine Declares

    Photo courtesy GHCVBA global city....with a disappointing football team​Foreign Policy magazine, desperate to hike pageviews now that their "Hottest Women of Diplomacy" issue is a thing of the past (or of our imagination) has ranked the 65 "Global Cities" of the world.The magazine looked at 65 cit ... More >>

  • Film

    September 23, 2010

    Wall Street Bailout

    Stone's sequel lets the bad guys off easy.

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Where Are We Drinking?

    I have little to no idea of what is going on in this photo, but I keep thinking of the foreign exchange student scene -- "Cheetah! Rawrrrr!" -- in my generation's seminal classic, Can't Hardly Wait. Leave your own thoughts as to what's happening in this picture as well as your guess as to where we'r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    HISD Says No Mas to Foreign-Exchange Students Automatically Getting Into Some Schools

    Au revoir, limitless foreign-exchange students​The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts -- a much-esteemed program in the Houston ISD that students all over the district apply for and compete to get into -- this year has five foreign exchange students.That means, HISD Chief Academic Offi ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 2, 2010

    SPECIAL LABOR DIA EDITION

    La Migra, NAFTA and one piece at a time

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Separation of Church and Finances: Pastor Swipes $462,000 Through False Investments

    Time to replant the money tree​Let your minister or rabbi or guru give you spiritual advice, but leave the financial dealings to your broker or accountant. The case of Jeremiah Yancy, aka Jeremiah Glaub, is a perfect example. While the pastor of a church in Idaho, Yancy managed to coax 64 individ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Canadian Tar Sands: Environmentalists Claim Houston To Be End Point Of Worst Project In The World

    You can't just go shooting for some food and find bubbling crude anymore​Other than desperation, is there much to recommend Canadian tar sands as a fuel source?Not according to Matthew Tejada of Air Alliance Houston. During a talk at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church last night, he described th ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 27, 2010

    Mushrooms Gone Wild

    Wild mushroom and walnut tortellini at D'Amico's Italian Market Cafe

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Save A Houston Librarian, Buy A Book

    ​While Hair Balls is fearful of ever-expanding government power and its attendant death panels and Wall Street takeovers, there is one government institution we absolutely love: libraries. We're total whores for literacy and recreational/ educational reading. Which is why we're stoked for the ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 8, 2010

    Downing Street Pub's Downing Street Draft

    ​While Hair Balls is fearful of ever-expanding government power and its attendant death panels and Wall Street takeovers, there is one government institution we absolutely love: libraries. We're total whores for literacy and recreational/ educational reading. Which is why we're stoked for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Fails Of The Week: Glastonbury "Ice Ice Baby," Sony "No Beyonce On YouTube," Fat Mike The Peeing Clown And... Bono

    If you're reading this, you're either on the Internet, or else you've mastered multi-dimensional thought-projection processes that would make Michio Kaku cry like a little girl. We'll assume the former, and just in case you don't already know, the Internet has decided that the word "failure" is too ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    How To Help Wall Street Bankers In Haiti's Time Of Need

    ​We Americans are a generous people. In the days after the devastating Haitian earthquake, we whipped out our credit cards and donated millions to relieve that stricken, jinxed nation.But until Thursday, when the Huffington Post got wind of the practices, the major credit companies (including ... More >>

  • News

    November 12, 2009

    City of Coffee

    Is Houston about to become America's coffee capital?

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Yep, Speculators Caused Last Year's Oil-Price Spike, Rice Says

    ​A couple of researchers at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy have released a study that gets close to proving that speculators caused oil prices to shoot up in 2008. This theory is nothing new, but the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the agency that regulates U.S. futu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2009

    John Birmingham

    The author of Without Warning just might be giving us one

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    How Can Exxon Make A Giant Profit And Conoco A Giant Loss? Gas Is Gas, Right?

    After reading about ExxonMobil's record $45.2 billion annual profit, Hair Balls was scratching our head over why Exxon had a profitable fourth quarter, when Conoco lost $31.8 billion. Does Exxon jack up the cost of Little Debbies at its stores or something?Fortunately, we caught Hoover's Oil & G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    Is 1986 Coming Again to Houston?

    The ever-cheerful blogger Lou Minatti, by way of warning everyone about Houston's coming fiscal apocalypse, has unearthed a 1986 Time article largely comparing booming Massachusetts and oil-bust Texas.Houston plays a part: Houston is the big city hardest hit. The town once giddily expansive on oil m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2008

    Summer Drinks: Greek Frappe

    The ever-cheerful blogger Lou Minatti, by way of warning everyone about Houston's coming fiscal apocalypse, has unearthed a 1986 Time article largely comparing booming Massachusetts and oil-bust Texas.Houston plays a part: Houston is the big city hardest hit. The town once giddily expansive on oil m ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 6, 2007

    BBAP Xmas Tree Project

    Local artists create a different type of seasonal decoration

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2007

    Drenched In Blog: Meg White Sex Tape?

    Local artists create a different type of seasonal decoration

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    Local artists create a different type of seasonal decoration

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    Wize Guys

    Here's your chance to get rich quick -- or lose your shirt, in which case, GlobalTec disavows all responsibility for, well, anything

  • Best of Houston

    September 25, 2003

    Best Local Boy Made Good

    Coffee king Carlos de Aldecoa Bueno

  • News

    October 10, 2002

    Diva of the Deal

    How Enron's high temptress turned massive projects into a $2 billion wet dream for the company -- and an estimated $100 million profit for herself

  • News

    February 7, 2002

    Up In Smoke

    Enron used political ties to rid itself of regulators. But in the end, its supposed free-market trailblazing only burned investors.

  • News

    January 24, 2002

    Catching a Big One

    Moody hooks a $75 million verdict against a fish farm and a law firm

  • News

    May 24, 2001

    Rejected

    Thousands of inmates rely annually on a capricious parole board for their freedom. Most, like George Dismukes, return to their cells without ever knowing why they were denied.

  • Dining

    April 5, 2001

    The Inkblot Test

    Do you prefer old greasy diners? Or imitations of old greasy dinners?

  • News

    August 12, 1999

    The Insider

    Shakedown Cruise: Mugging Rice is not nice on its first stroll through Mayor Brown's turf

  • Dining

    May 20, 1999

    Hot Plate

    Shakedown Cruise: Mugging Rice is not nice on its first stroll through Mayor Brown's turf

  • News

    November 26, 1998

    Need or Greed

    A Bible-quoting con man finds easy pickings among those looking for a miracle or a windfall

  • News

    August 20, 1998

    Biological Disaster

    Zonagen Inc. took its name from Bonnie Dunbar's groundbreaking research into contraceptive vaccines. Then, when she wasn't looking, the company took her research.

  • Dining

    July 24, 1997

    Simple Delight

    At the Triple A, the food lives up to the rating in the name

  • News

    April 25, 1996

    Feature

    Headline:The Case Against Hurwitz In one of the last big S&L cases from the '80s, two federal agencies are pursuing Charles Hurwitz over the failure of united Savings. And for once, Hurwitz may have no place to hide.

  • News

    April 6, 1995

    The Wendy Card

    Wendy Gramm's all-American success story is a centerpiece of her husband's fledgling presidential bid. But there's more to the story than what's being packaged and sold by the Phil Gramm campaign.

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