- Northrop Grumman dropped out of the bid for the $40 billion Pentagon deal involving the next generation of refueling tankers for the Air Force. This is a huge step forward for Boeing if the company can pull it off successfully.
- Every student concerned with the University budget should check out the University’s overview at budgetcentral.umd.edu. There is a simpler breakdown of costs than has been available previously.
- Another week, another article in the Wall Street Journal, discussing economists’ disagreement about the timing of end of the recession. We don’t know. No one does. We get it.
- JetBlue held a $10 sale on Monday for flights between New York and 10 other destinations.
- In a further attempt to take over the world (which they have been very successful in doing so far), Google is trying to combine the Internet and television. Combining the two most lucrative forms of media sounds like a way for the rich to get richer.
- Paul Krugman writes in The New York Times that America and Ireland are having similar economic problems although Ireland has very different causes. The two countries’ differences could provide a window to see the reasons for economic collapse.
- How do college students afford to travel down South, rent out space and, often, buy copious amounts of alcohol for spring break when the economy is in dire straits? Vote online at themunchonline.com.