June 10 - June 16, 2007
Saturday, Jun. 16
If you still have any doubt why those two senators want to make a federal case out of how much...
Friday, Jun. 15
That's what Michael Goldstein is posting on his Monday Morning Media Quaterback blog. Apparently, there are "For Rent" signs in...
WSJ just reported that Financial Times publisher Pearson has been trying to recruit partners to make an offer that would...
May's jobless rate in Los Angeles County fell to 4.7 percent from 5.0 percent a month earlier and 4.9 percent...
The porn industry is just dying to get its hands on the U.S. mobile phone market - and for a...
Michael Moore's controversial film about the U.S. health care system is apparently all over the Internet, according to Ad Age's...
Inflation worries: Higher gas prices may not have curbed retail sales last month, but they certainly had an impact on...
Thursday, Jun. 14
The Mortgage Bankers Association says that without California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona, the number of first-quarter foreclosure starts would have...
BW picks up on the LABO scooplet from a couple weeks back about L.A.-based crisis manager Mike Sitrick being hired...
You don't get $360 million worth of investment money and suddenly file Chapter 11 with $100 million in liabilities without...
Wear a suit and tie in L.A.? I suppose it's still the norm in certain pockets of the city, especially...
Is it mere coincidence that Stockton was the nation's hottest home buying market in 2001 and now leads the nation...
Who needs "The Sopranos"?: George Torres owns the chain of Numero Uno grocery stores located in low-income parts of L.A.,...
Wednesday, Jun. 13
The bid was for more than $2 billion, according to Bloomberg News, which cited a person with direct knowledge of...
The Dow rose 187 points, its biggest gain in almost 11 months. A good-sized rebound seemed in the offing since...
He'll tell you that at 83, it was time. Simple as that. But an online article in Radar suggests that...
No, it's not a joke - it even happened at the Playboy mansion last night. Six teams make up the...
L.A. sales in May tumbled 31 percent from a year earlier, part of a 34.4 percent collapse for all of...
He's the CEO of Blackstone Group, the massive private equity firm that's about to go public, and he points out...
Market watch: This could be a rebound day, with bond yields slipping a bit and better-than-expected retail sales in May....
Tuesday, Jun. 12
We're talking more than $200 million in overcharges to the county, the school district and other government entities, according to...
The White House is saying that the SEC, and not individual investors, should be the ones suing third parties -...
It's hard to know what to make of ReadyTrac's foreclosure filings for May. Numbers compiled by the Irvine-based firm are...
Boy, for a magazine that comes out once every six months or so, Portfolio sure gets a lot of attention....
The market got whacked again - the Dow was down 130 points thanks to new worries about interest rates -...
First off, let's get our definitions straight. There's the affluent, the rich and the superrich, and according to a survey...
Market watch: There's more speculation about central banks raising interest rates, which has yields on 10-year Treasuries reaching 5.21 percent...
Monday, Jun. 11
As in Soprano over Broadway (was there any doubt?). Nielsen won't have detailed numbers until tomorrow, but metered overnights in...
Forget about naysayers who claim that the state is stuck in neutral. Well, sort of forget about them. California's gross...
It's more than two years until Conan O'Brien takes over "The Tonight Show," but already he's house hunting around town...
Talk about marketing leverage for a guy who is making noises about a trade. No. 24 has been the best-selling...
Home price illusion: May's median price for L.A. County was $585,000, up 6.4 percent from a year earlier, according to...
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The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.
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