To be "eligible" you have to be fired. Get it? I guess there's no easy way to do a layoff, and the people laid off in the BusinessWeek-Bloomberg marriage--123 of them, to be exact--have been treated with as much dignity as the situation allows. I...

The SEC-investigated, book-cooking Overstock.com, as it awaits a decision by Nasdaq as to whether it should be delisted for its various naughtiness, continues to provide merriment for children of all ages. Today's "Overstock moment" comes in the form...

I must say that I rather enjoyed writing this column for Portfolio.com. Yes, Portfolio.com, and with the same name as my late, lamented blog, the Weiss File. Boy gets blog, boy loses blog (and magazine gig), boy gets column. Hollywood...

It's not every day that you see a filing like this: a letter from Grant Thornton to the SEC, which Overstock.com was forced to file as a disclosure upon pain of being in even worse trouble than it is. In the letter, Overstock's former auditors said...

Somebody sent me a Bloomberg story that ran today on Andrew Cuomo, New York's attorney general and a rising star in the Democratic party, describing how Cuomo took cash from lawyers with business before his office. It's a great piece, and it occurred...