… in its quarterly “flow of funds” report on Thursday, the Federal Reserve sharply revised its estimates of how much cash companies are holding on…
Stay-at-home dads: More men choosing kids over careerCNNBy Jessica Dickler @CNNMoney April 30, 2012: 5:18 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Before Jessica and Lance Somerfeld had their baby, they decided it would make the most financial sense for one of the…
You may have heard that Seattle got socked by a big snowstorm. There were winds as high as 110mph. It was unusual for this to happen. It set some records. I took a look at the storm that bumped into the Pacific North West.
What happened in Seattle i…
There is an unusual pattern that’s developed over the past couple weeks, where the market gaps higher in the morning, then gets sold for the rest of the day. This is often a reversal pattern, but it has so far not yielded a meaningful&n…
Making It in America
In the past decade, the flow of goods emerging from U.S. factories has risen by about a third. Factory employment has fallen by roughly the same fraction. The story of Standard Motor Products, a 92-year-old, family-run …
“Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, a hopeful sign that the job market might be picking up,” trumpeted the AP, in a news…
When the lenders foreclose on your house and you’re turfed out of the place, makes sense that you’re gonna rent a place to live. After all, it might be a tad difficult to get a mortgage on another home….
U.S. apartment vacancies fell to a two-year …
The Fed did another outright purchase of Agency debt on Friday. Its little ploy to get foreign central banks (FCBs) and Primary Dealers off the…
