Republican-backing business groups are nervous the politicians they helped elect might be so enthusiastic about cutting spending that they'll actually hurt business.
Republicans have long denounced the liberal fixation with victimhood while embracing all its tropes, arguing, as Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have, that it's those in the Christian majority who are really being persecuted in America. Mitt Romney bested his opponents by going one step further, saying he would stand up for the fabulously wealthy.
Players: Gene Weingarten, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at The Washington Post who doesn't understand lolcats (or readers' infatuation with lolcats); Ben Huh, CEO of meme network I Can Has Cheezburger? which gave birth to the lolcat.
Ingrassia defends The Times's Business section and DealBook
Nasdaq, Dow Jones, and S&P all lose ground, while gold hits record highs
Plus: what do you give the mega-bestselling author who has everything?
The bookstore could begin liquidation sales at its remaining 400 locations as soon as Friday
Private equity firms KKR and Silver Lake are looking at the domain registrar
Plus: Spielberg circles a 'Jurassic Park' reboot
But it's incredibly interesting
Health care costs 7.3 percent more than it did last year, and that's not all
Companies are doing their part to help you buy more to save the Earth
It's going to hire 50,000 new employees on April 15th, and wants you to know it
Four orders of nuns are looking to review whether executives' pay is "excessive"
There's money in white noise
Company makes amends for Tuesday's streaming video disruption...kind of
Not much sympathy for boycott calls
At UNICOR, prisoners build everything, for everyone, in every field
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