“Stocks staged a partial recovery Tuesday following the previous session’s historic loss, as investors hoped a revised financial rescue plan will emerge.” 

 -  from WSJ 

New beauty catalogue from Saks Fifth Avenue. The copy (and the price) is priceless…

 Check out the damage in this excellent interactive graphic from nytimes.com 

Damien Hirst sold some of his stuff for $127.2 million yesterday at Sotheby’s. There is $$ out there, girls and boys!

In 1896 Karol Adamiecki, a Polish economist, developed what he poetically called a Harmonogram. Nowadays, we tend to refer to his innovation as a Gantt chart, after Henry Gantt, who was apparently better at branding stuff and seemingly more narcissistic

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