Thomas H. Lee is the star of this movie. It’s all about the nineties.  And the year of the apocalypse, 2000. Somehow, someway, the public lost sight of reality in the last decade of the twentieth century.  All investing principles went out the window.  It was no longer about fundamentals.  Profits to earnings ratios were […]

05.02.06 Fleamail May 2, 2006 Doesn’t this sound suspiciously like the Oscar campaign telling us that a movie is only good if you see it in a THEATRE? Decades after Burger King made major inroads into McDonald’s market share by announcing to consumers they could have it "their way", backward record companies and artists STILL […]

The most important story transpiring in the music business this week is taking place in Canada.  Where first the indie labels and now the artists are in REVOLT!  Not against their customers, but CRIA, the north of the border equivalent of the RIAA. CRIA was cozying up to legislators, with a worldwide agenda that didn’t […]

I’m going to print more Coachella responses.  So that people don’t accuse me of being biased, I’m not going to edit them and am only going to exclude those that are completely redundant and incomprehensible. Now it took ME forever to slog through these.  So, I wasn’t going to reprint them, I was done.  But […]