Investors are no longer feeding the mortgage bond beast, or cutting off demand and thus severely crimping the ability of companies like Countrywide to operate.
The good news for Brown is that she definitely traded up in merging Newsweek with the Daily Beast: Even at No. 99, the former is still 60 spots ahead of the latter.
Harman has had trouble recruiting a big-name editor to run Newsweek, while Diller has said publicly he thought the Daily Beast needed a print component no matter what.