JPMorgan's Whale Sized Losses Risk Sinking The Mega-Banks …ForbesConclusions that the loss was a result of the top management's inability to oversee the bank's massive operations has sparked off another debate about the …Volcker Rule he…
If you make it increasingly costly and risky to open a small enterprise, then no wonder unemployment remains high.
You hear a lot about Kafkaesque stifling bureaucracy in Greece and other struggling European nations, but America’s Status Quo is tr…
The media is giving mixed messages lately. On one hand, we have Barron’s weekend cover story, predicting Dow 15,000. This suggests the bullish sentiment is getting more over-blown, and it’s amazing how many times co…
Editor’s Note: The earlier version of this article included unadjusted numbers derived from a spreadsheet error. The error resulted in the not seasonally adjusted month…
Early today 523 banks requested an unprecedented €489 billion ($640 billion) in super-cheap funding from the European Central Bank.
But the massive lending operation has garnered only a tepid response from markets, with short-term government bond y…
No I’m afraid some commentators are all lost in a big forest in the dark…
There is nothing at all that can or will stop the continued rise in the price of gold from here. There are a lot of confused minds around the place thinking about what might h…
The following is an excerpt from the Wall Street Examiner Professional Edition Long Term Outlook Update. The link for subscriber access to the full report…
I have seen a lot of scroom videos in my days as a perma-gloomer.
However, the link below is to one of the most-professionally-produced doom-mongering shows I have ever watched:
http://w3.newsmax.com/a/aftershockb/video.cfm?PROMO_CODE=CACB-1
Having …
A former senior analyst at Moody’s has gone public with his story of how one of the country’s most important rating agencies is corrupted to the core. The analyst, William J. Harrington, worked for Moody’s for 11 years, from 1999 until his resignatio…
Every 3 months the Census Bureau releases an interesting survey of US housing inventory and vacancy for both owner occupied and rental housing. I include…
