Retailers come and go in Boulder, but Bart's attracted many customers for its large upstairs collection of vinyl, both used and new.
Posted 12.04.2009 | Technology
If you've got some CDs that are well past their prime (and no, we don't mean that perfectly unblemished Spice Girls disc you've been hiding from your ...
AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Its TV and print ads poke fun at the bait-and-switch tactics of other banks. Its interest rates on CDs have been the most generous in the...
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home
Did your bank fail? Has that had an impact on you - whether in interest rates or something else? Do you work for a faltering or collapsed bank? Pro...
Michael Sigman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Technology
It can be exhilarating to contemplate the digital and evolutionary future. But I don't know if I could bear a world of "vookcases," "vook reports," and God forbid, a New York Review of Vooks.
Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.14.2009 | Entertainment
The guy whose band, Dire Straits, sold 120 million records has made a CD that will be appreciated mostly by the smallest cohort of music lovers: smart, literate grownups who can read without moving their lips.
Tamara Conniff | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment
Music sales are plummeting -- both digital and physical. In part, this is due to the economy -- if a consumer has to choose between dinner and a CD, most will choose dinner.
New York Post | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
HARRY Markopolos -- the whistleblower on Bernie Madoff who proved to be much smarter than the SEC -- says there are evildoers out there who will make ...
Dave Astor | Posted 07.11.2009 | Comedy
In the days before the internet, how did out-of-town journalists transmit typewritten stories to their editors? They folded the stories into paper airplanes and hurled them out of hotel windows.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business
Leaving oil trading to the banks portends another financial disaster by tying their viability to the highly volatile world of commodity trading. It's time that the bankers got back to banking the old fashioned way.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.28.2009 | Business
Call it the case of the disappearing dividends, a $42 billion caper that's robbing many Americans of a fair chunk of their future wealth.
bloomberg.com | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the eight other banks that have dominated the credit-default swaps market fo...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business
I would love for Tim Geithner or anyone else in the administration or Congress to explain why they think these naked Credit Default Swaps must be paid off.
Ian Welsh | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business
The first step is a name change. Call them insurance, because that's what they are. The insure against the possibility that you won't get paid money someone owes you. Once they're called insurance, regulate them like insurance.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business
It is past time that a distinction be made between that part of AIG's business that was a "large and stable insurance company," and that part that was a "hedge fund," or better put, a casino.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 01.27.2009 | Business
In the first article of this series I discussed how to reform the mortgage underwriting market. This article will focus on credit default swaps, or CDS'.
Cliff Hunt | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green
In Canada all four major labels have exclusively switched to digital distribution for promotional releases, preventing the manufacture and shipping of millions of ecologically harmful CDs.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.19.2008 | Entertainment
The problem of compact discs disappearing from the marketplace is worse than it was only a year ago. Store buyers just ain't a-buyin' from the labels, and it's looking grim all over.
Clusterstock | John Carney | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business
So the final results from the Lehman Brothers CDS auction are in, and they're even uglier than expected. Finally price is 8.625 cents on the dollar. ...
Deborah Senn | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business
AIG's financial meltdown this past week was not the result of failed insurance regulation. (Go ahead. Read that one more time, real slow.)
Los Angeles Times | Michelle Quinn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Nearly half of all teenagers bought no compact discs in 2007, accelerating the music industry's painful transition from CDs to digital downloads, acco...
Business Week | Lewis Braham | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Complex financial instruments called credit default swaps have roiled the financial markets for months. They're at the heart of the bond insurers' woe...
Jerry Lewis | Posted 12.18.2009 | Denver