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CEO Prem Watsa discusess how Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. of Toronto has not only weathered the greatest financial storm since the Depression, but has profited mightily.
Debbie Robins | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living
It's been a month now since American pop culture witnessed three consecutive bursts of public anger. Serena Williams, wielding her racquet as a weapon at the U.S. Open, kick-started a week in which Kanye West stole the microphone from young, doll-faced Taylor Swift at the MTV Awards, and ended with Congressman Joe Wilson shouting down the President of the United States like a British heckler.
Diane Francis | Posted 09.14.2009 | Business
A quick survey of market catastrophes reveals that autumn is not only when the traditional harvest comes in, but also when we reap what we have sown -- whether it's corn or bad economic policy.
New York Times | Alex Berenson | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
One year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the surprise is not how much has changed in the financial industry, but how little....
Diane Francis | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
The Middle Kingdom has taken its place among the world's most important economies, and China is jittery.
Michael Moore | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment
Tonight, at the Venice Film Festival, I will premiere my new movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story." After 16 months of production, I am proud to present this work of mine to you. It is unlike anything you'll see this year.
Michael Moore | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business
It's a crime story. But it's also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us. And, of course, it's also a love story. Only it's about an abusive relationship.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media
So, did you read about that time that Glenn Beck got a TEENSY BIT PIQUED at a lady who called in to his radio show, forcing him to go to his screechy ...
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 08.16.2009 | Comedy
Bill O being Bill O, couldn't leave it merely to the lawyers, and chose to confront Glenn on Glenn's television show. Take a look.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media
The nutlog Fox News comedian was doing his radio show today, when he finally got so sick of what some caller was telling him about health care in the Netherlands that he went to his "death metal" place
Michael Rose | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green
Fifty years ago today Los Angeles experienced the meltdown at the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) that, except for blind luck, didn't become LA's Chernobyl.
Fran Barrett | Posted 08.07.2009 | New York
So those of you who work in, or are on the board of, or even have friends who are connected to a nonprofit, let me offer you a few tips to nonprofits seeking member item funding.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
How will Loefgin justify giving $108 billion in loan guarantees to European banks while her own state goes bankrupt? How will anybody?
Robert Scheer | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
Ronald Reagan's signing off on legislation easing mortgage requirements back in 1982 pales in comparison to the damage wrought 15 years later.
Diane Francis | Posted 06.06.2009 | Business
In a G2 world (the US and China), he who is the piper calls the tune and China holds a US$2-trillion mortgage on the U.S. and is not happy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney and Ryan Grim | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
A couple weeks ago a reader shared word with the Huffington Post of a tent city in Virginia, about an hour outside of D.C., where tons of middle class...
Diane Francis | Posted 04.19.2009 | Business
What is scandalous is not only the US$165 million in AIG bonuses. It's the US$180 billion which has been shoveled into AIG by taxpayers to date, funds...
Diane Francis | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
Bank stocks had their best week on record last week and early this week as investors bet the bottom had been reached. I don't think so and hope I'm wr...
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media
Almost all black men recognize the contemptuous look Jonathan Martin gave Obama on Thursday.
Diane Francis | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
Obama-nomics won't merely be the New Deal Part Two. It will have to be executed along with policies hammered out in partnership with the best minds and most enlightened leaders in the world.
Art Levine | Posted 02.18.2009 | Business
It's worth it for non-economists to better understand how got into this mess -- and how to get out of it.
Diane Francis | Posted 12.29.2008 | Business
One of the few investors or money mavens who guessed the meltdown was coming is Canada's Prem Watsa, Chair and founder of Fairfax Financial Holdings L...
Diane Francis | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business
It would be as irrational to allow the Ayatollahs to build bombs as it would be to allow Wall Streeters to run amok again building their weapons of financial mass destruction.
Diane Francis | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
The day of Obama's election, Mexico's second-highest official in charge of other key drug interdiction officials died in a fiery jet crash. This may become the President-elect's first test and crisis.
Alan Fein | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business
In bad times like these, the government has to spend money to build things that we desperately need: roads, bridges, schools, courthouses, sanitation systems and a new energy infrastructure.
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Diane Francis | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business