Wall Street Journal

Kevin Kelly discusses the possibility of an "unthinkable" breakup of the USA. After all, notes Juan Enriquez, "no US president has ever died under the same flag that he was born under."

From the Wall Street Journal:
In a year when major stock indexes, real estate, hedge funds, oil, grains, emerging markets, dollar/yen, long/short hedging strategies (thanks to the short-selling ban), high-yield bonds, bank loans, diversification, and the Super Bowl Indicator failed investors, there were precious few “calls” that worked out well.

Jeremy Scahill
AlterNet
November 21, 2008

A who’s who guide to the people poised to shape Obama’s foreign policy.

Great article from the Wall Street Journal's Paul Ingrassia that summarizes how and why the US auto industry fell to pieces. My favorite part was this telling excerpt:

In Detroit, amid worker alienation and the "blue-collar blues," Chevies, Fords and Plymouths rattled, rusted and rolled over -- and those were the good ones. The Ford Pinto's gas tank was prone to explode into flames when the car was hit from the rear, making the Pinto the poster product for corporate callousness.

The Wall Street Journal, Friday November 14th, reports on "culture clashes" between the brokers of Merrill Lynch and the bank that bought them, Bank of America. As the article portrays it, the values of Wall Street are coming in conflict with those of Main Street.

Posted by Dennis Sellers

Lower-income households are buying iPhones, apparently to save the money of paying for a separate cell phone, broadband connection and musical device, according to the media measurement firm comScore. As noted by the Wall Street Journal, a comScore study, shows that the fastest growth in iPhone sales over the summer...

Like many of today’s news sites, the Wall Street Journal features a box on its article pages that shows other popular articles:

Because titles often don’t communicate what’s in the article, the implementation gives users a chance to see more by providing a summary as a tooltip-style pop-up.