[wac3rd]

Don’t worry, Slim has the guarantee...

[ninonitti]

Interesting parallel with the economic collapse going on overall. Anyone who is able is re-hocking themselves to last another 6 months.....a little more air at a higher interest rate works for the powers that be. What happens when they accumulate all the wealth?

[gridlock]

It made absolutely no sense for the New York Times to build a new building. It was a vanity project, pure and simple. They were in adequate space. Even if they needed new space, there was adequate space available all over Midtown.

Building the building was a vanity project for Pinch. In good economic times, such stupid decisions can be sustained. In tight economic times, they are the difference between failure and survival.

[Obadiah]

The NYTimes

[central_va]

I fully expect Obama to bail out the grey old #@($#*$.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Pinch is just following Obama’s lead. This is his ‘stimulus’ plan for THEE new york times.

[Loyal Buckeye]

This sale-leaseback goes to the heart of the problem with Pinch. He would lose face if he sold the building outright, so he did a sale-leaseback with the intent of repurchasing the building at the end of the lease.

[Grampa Dave]

Wonder what rate the Mafia is giving Pinch?

[Vroomfondel]

I’m sure there must be a Monty Python ping list to which one could issue a “machine that goes ping” ping, but I sure don’t know about it.