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Will The Real Rupert Murdoch Please Stand Up?

I am going to just come out and admit it, I love Rupert Murdoch. I love the way this guy plays the buy/sell game. He is a pirate with a pen. He is another in a long line of founders who like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Sam Walton, and Michael Dell either know what’s

Housing Bill: Too Little Too Late for One

After a year of putzing around, we finally have a housing bill. By a vote of 272 to 152 (and I hope the 152 of you feel good about yourselves) the bill will become law pending President Bush’s approval and final passage in the Senate.

UAL Stock - Who is Buying This Mess?

I Then immediately checked my watch to see what time it was, then I checked the calender to see what year it was…yep, still 2008. Then I asked myself, who in the hell is buying up shares of UAL in this day and age? What short selling, trying to

Blackwater & Security - Like Oil and Hurricanes

It appears that the embattled security firm Blackwater is getting out of the security business. Seems they are upset that they have become the poster boys for anti-war proponents and since being in the protection game wasn’t really their

U.S. Future: Oil Dependency Not The Problem

The U.S. economy has hummed along for the last fifteen years outpacing the rest of the world by double digits. Things were good. Businesses expanded, homeowners realized massive increases in the value of their homes and they

Pandit’s Gambit: Bad for Business - Good for Baseball?

That’s right home gamers, Vikram Pandit, the embattled (French for about get canned) CEO of the world’s largest financial institution has been a busy little beaver trying to put lipstick on this pig of a stock since Citi

Will The Real Rupert Murdoch Please Stand Up?

I am going to just come out and admit it, I love Rupert Murdoch. I love the way this guy plays the buy/sell game. He is a pirate with a pen. He is another in a long line of founders who like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Sam Walton, and Michael Dell either know what’s best for their companies or think they do and will do anything they can to advance the business.

Rupert has been on a hot streak with the acquisitions of Myspace and the Wall Street Journal’s parent, Dow Jones, which he laid in wait for a long time. He also gave it the old college try with DirectTV to consolidate his BskyB holdings, but that didn’t work out so well.

You know why this guy is cool?

Because he is a swashbuckling newspaper man at heart in a world that is quickly devouring print media. So Mr. Murdoch creates controversy whenever he can in order to keep us all honest, and his companies relevant. The latest is a masterstroke. It’s kind of a game that we used to play as kids and it goes a little like this;

Remember when someone would do something to you, and you wouldn’t retaliate right away, but you would make the other guy sweat it out just wondering when you were going to get him back? Well that’s what Rupert is doing over at the WSJ. There must be an over/under pool somewhere with odds on a board pinpointing the exact month, week, or day that Rupert is going to stick his editorial nose into the day to day operations of the Journal and send the staff of the last bastion of civilized business (and profitable) print media screaming into the night.

If it means anything, my money is on late October!