Big Fat Whale

How They Lost $2 Billion

Big Fat Whale

By BRIAN MCFADDEN | May 16, 2012

Is Rhode Island a paywall mecca?
Media analysts say Rhode Island could be especially fertile ground for a declining newspaper industry's primary survival strategy — charging readers for access to its heretofore free web sites.
Bank of America's Future Plans
America's favorite unfeeling corporate bank has some new ideas.
Keep your money in Maine
You're short on cash. Local businesses are short on cash. But you probably didn't know that even your local bank is short on cash.
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Is Rhode Island a paywall mecca?
Media analysts say Rhode Island could be especially fertile ground for a declining newspaper industry's primary survival strategy — charging readers for access to its heretofore free web sites.
Bank of America's Future Plans
America's favorite unfeeling corporate bank has some new ideas.
Keep your money in Maine
You're short on cash. Local businesses are short on cash. But you probably didn't know that even your local bank is short on cash.
Do you accept this fee?
How much do you spend in ATM fees? Maine consumers are paying more — by one estimate, the average per-transaction charge has risen from $1.50 in 2006 to $2.35 last year.
Big boss man
"Government should be run like a business."
Put your money where your home is
FDIC statistics show that in Cumberland County, more than 80 percent of the market share of deposits is in TD Bank, Key Bank, or Bank of America.
At union request, Sussman steps up for Press Herald
It was not the owners of the Portland Press Herald who sought out Maine hedge-fund mogul S. Donald Sussman to proffer a cash infusion to save the ailing newspaper. Rather, it was the idea of the Press Herald 's unionized employees.
Can manufacturing save the state's economy?
As the economy coughs its way toward something resembling recovery, politicians and economists are pointing to a surprising elixir: manufacturing.
Billions gone
Full disclosure: I'm pretty dumb. I never made it past Algebra II.
Banks suck
It is no longer a question of whether Wall Street and the rest of the international finance system is corrupt.
Let’s make campaign finance reform sexy
Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was out on the hustings this week promoting his DISCLOSE Act, which would require the sort of independent political groups playing an outsize role in the presidential election to report on who is bankrolling their operations.
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