The Greek Cockroach Warren Buffet’s adage “you never see just one cockroach” is going to be tested in Greek. We are about to find out if this is true... Read More
S&P500 Swing Analog: 1938, 1974, 2003 Ron Griess of The Chart Store looks to history for some analogies to the current market. He looked at 1938, 1942, 1974, 1982 and 2003. He... Read More
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Coming Soon: 5 Million More Foreclosures Studies keep showing what we have known for a long time: Fighting foreclosures is a futile — and counter-productive — use of... Read More
Is the Recession Over? There is some debate about whether the recession is over. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a non-governmental... Read More
Volcker: Let Big Financial Firms Fail “If a big non-bank institution gets in trouble and threatens the whole system, there ought to be some authority that can step in,... Read More
Paul Volcker on Fareed Zakaria Podcast Fareed Zakaria revisits Paul Volcker’s crackdown on inflation and wonders if he can do it again Read More
NYS Appliance Rebate/Stimulus Plan We walked into a local appliance chain (PC Richards) today to see how well the appliance rebate was going. These rebates are being funded... Read More
60 Minutes on Scams: Pigeon Fever It’s been just over a year since Bernard Madoff’s multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme fell apart. But, as Morley Safer reports,... Read More
Economic Cheat Sheet: Using Retail Sales to Forecast GDP &... Of all the various economic indicators and data points out there, is there one that has any special ability to forecast future economic... Read More