http://moneyandfinance.theamericanmind.com Business and Finance News Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:13:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At noon at participating Starbucks you'll be able to get a sample of their new Pike Place coffee. It's part of Starbuck's plan to get people excited about their coffee again and liven up sales. How does it taste? A Chicago Starbucks ran out of coffee and started selling Pike ... http://moneyandfinance.theamericanmind.com/2008/04/free-starbucks-coffee-today/ A private equity firm has gotten into the act of shoring up a firm hit by the housing crisis. Texas Pacific Group, TPG will inject $5 billion into Washington Mutual (WM): Washington Mutual, the country’s largest savings and loan, is poised to receive a $5 billion investment from TPG, a big ... http://moneyandfinance.theamericanmind.com/2008/04/tpg-investing-5-billion-in-washington-mutual/ In light of the recent turmoil in the housing and financial markets Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will release a proposal for revamping the regulatory agencies monitoring the U.S. financial system: Mr. Paulson's plan will include merging some agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, ... http://moneyandfinance.theamericanmind.com/2008/03/paulson-calls-for-regulatory-reform/ Miller and Coors will merge their North American brewing operations: Miller Brewing Co. and Coors Brewing Co., the nation's second- and third-largest brewers, are combining their operations, creating a bigger challenger to Anheuser-Busch Cos. - but also raising the possibility of future job cuts at Miller's Milwaukee headquarters. For now, longtime ... http://moneyandfinance.theamericanmind.com/2007/10/miller-coors-join-forces/ Popular Science interviews SkyBus CEO Bill Diffenderffer. Some may see SkyBus' strategy of offering cheap plane tickets but charging for everything to be nickle-and-diming the customer. Diffenderffer counters: Q: Your business model also requires passengers to pay for any extras—drinks, blankets—piecemeal. Will consumers go for that? A: They were paying for it ... http://moneyandfinance.theamericanmind.com/2007/08/qa-with-skybus-ceo/ The private equity boom hit Milwaukee. For fans of an independent Midwest Airlines (MEH) this is a good thing. TPG Capital agreed to pay Midwest shareholders $16/share cash to take the airline private. An interesting wrinkle is Northwest Airlines, the number two carrier out of Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport is ... http://moneyandfinance.theamericanmind.com/2007/08/midwest-airlines-goes-private/ Sony really, really needs to crank up Playstation 3 sales. Video games are a huge money-maker to begin with. Plus, the company needs to get more Blu-ray high-def video players on the market to win the war over HD-DVD. Nintendo's Wii has been outselling Playstation 3 almost two-to-one. Sony decided ... http://moneyandfinance.theamericanmind.com/2007/07/sony-cuts-playstation-3-price/ Today marks the end of Midwest Airlines as an independent, Wisconsin company. At the company's stockholders meeting today it's expected that three director candidates backed by AirTran will be voted onto the board: The election will be the highlight of today's 10 a.m. shareholders meeting. Midwest Air shareholders will choose between ... http://moneyandfinance.theamericanmind.com/2007/06/midwest-airlines-board-vote-will-lead-to-purchase/ The Manhattan Saks Fifth Avenue (SKS) store got the U.S. Postal Service to help them with a publicity stunt. The department store announced their newly-remodeled shoe department will be so big and important it deserves its own zip code: The quintessential Manhattan store is revamping its shoe department, and when it ... http://moneyandfinance.theamericanmind.com/2007/05/saks-shoe-department-gets-zip-code/ Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve wants to make credit card statements easier to understand and give consumers more time before their terms are changed: To help, the Fed's proposal would call for a table summarizing the changes to appear on the statement above the list of the consumers' transactions. That's where people ... http://moneyandfinance.theamericanmind.com/2007/05/fed-wants-ease-credit-card-confusion/