• Interest rates hit all-time low

  The Bank of England cuts rates to 1.5%, the lowest level in its 315-year history, as it continues efforts to help the economy.

• Madoff 'had cheques ready to go'

  Bernard Madoff had $173m in cheques in his office desk, ready to send out at the time of his arrest, US prosecutors say.

• US firm in talks to buy Wedgwood

  A US private equity firm is in advanced talks to buy most of iconic china firm Waterford Wedgwood.

• The Future of Apple

  L.A. Times' Michael Hiltzik on blue chip company and its frail-looking CEO.

• Bailout on Ice

  What will be done with the $350 billion in frozen assets?

• CES: Yahoo unveils TV plan

  Jan. 8 - Yahoo Connected TV got a boost of publicity at CES 2009 as Yahoo unveiled a list of HDTV partners.

  
  
  

“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.” - Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)

“fas-cism (fash'iz'em) n. A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism. ” - The American Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983)