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MONDAY JANUARY 05
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CEO Morning Report: Third-Hand Smoke
That’s the new term, courtesy of the good doctors at Boston’s MassGeneral Hospital for Children, to describe the insidious invisible gases and particles left clinging to smokers’ bodies and their smoking environments long after the first- and second-hand smoke has cleared away. The residue, notes the NY Times in its covering article, includes heavy metals, carcinogens and even radioactive materials that kids especially (but presumably any living thing) can ingest via contact.
posted: Monday January 5th - 6:18am
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 31
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CEO Morning Report: Hello, Yellow Brick Road
The idea of getting marshaled into holding pens packed with moronic hordes pissed on Bud-Lite in sub-zero temperatures holds zero appeal. Leave New Year’s Eve in Times Square to the amateurs—I’ll welcome 2009 from the comfort of home.
posted: Wednesday December 31st - 6:29am
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TUESDAY DECEMBER 30
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CEO Morning Report: “Nuking the Fridge”
That’s a term coined this year to describe movie scenes that are so incongruous or ridiculous that they rattle the brain and unsettle the overall appreciation of the work at hand. "Nuking the Fridge" honors Indiana Jones' implausible escape from an atomic blast by sealing himself inside a lead-lined refrigerator.
posted: Tuesday December 30th - 6:24am
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MONDAY DECEMBER 29
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CEO Morning Report: Good Riddance Day
How’s this for really working for a living. For all but one day each month, miners labor, without pay, in icy tunnels 17,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes. Fortified only by wads of coca leaves, they brave such perils as explosives, toxic gases and tunnel collapses in search of gold, more precious than ever as this beguiling metal “reprises its role as a safe haven in perilous times.”
posted: Monday December 29th - 6:20am
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FRIDAY DECEMBER 26
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CEO Morning Report: Boxing Day
The holiday observed in Britain and Commonwealth countries on December 26, when Christmas gifts are traditionally given to service workers and less fortunate members of society. Here in the U.S., every day of late has been a boxing day for former pugilist, Illinois Gov. Rod (“The Blagger”) Blagojevich.
posted: Friday December 26th - 6:26am
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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 24
TUESDAY DECEMBER 23
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CEO Morning Report: El Gordo
Just as celebrity deaths come in threes, here's my twice-cited $1.6 billion number from yesterday popping up again today for the troika. This time, it's the anticipated operating loss at Toyota for the fiscal year ending March 2009, the carmaker's second only decline since its founding in 1937. Some $18.5 billion in cash and manageable debt will bolster Toyota against the downturn, but that scarcely thins the heavy underscore of big trouble coming for the global auto industry.
posted: Tuesday December 23rd - 6:21am
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MONDAY DECEMBER 22
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CEO Morning Report: American Idle?
We might wish that our present economic bedevilments inspire behavioral changes at both the corporate and at the consumer levels, that we may avoid the asphyxiation, by analogy, of future Wal-Mart-style stampedes.
posted: Monday December 22nd - 6:24am
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FRIDAY DECEMBER 19
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CEO Morning Report: Steel Wheels
The non-profit Texas High Speed Rail & Transportation Corporation was formed in 2002 to unite the state’s four major metropolitan areas—Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio—in a grassroots, collective effort to create a multimodal, inter-modal transportation system, built around an advanced high-speed rail system.
posted: Friday December 19th - 6:26am
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 18
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CEO Morning Report: Meet The T-Bone
Back in August, Forbes ran a story worrying that Ford might have “overreacted” to the summer’s gas price spike by shifting some of its big car and truck manufacturing platform over to small cars.
posted: Thursday December 18th - 6:29am
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