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A 10 year sequence of global fires as seen by NASA’s MODIS instruments. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific...

Some quick reads to start your week: • Bond-Fund Stars, Dimmer (WSJ) • Hedge Funds Face Investor Pruning (WSJ) • How Mr. Volcker...

In Wednesday’s letter we noted that virtually everyone involved in the marketplace ignored Ben Bernanke’s warning that he would hike...

In anticipation of a European agreement by Wednesday, Sarkozy yesterday summed up what they have so far, “work is going well on the...

Good Monday morning. We begin the week with a few very simple premises confronting investors: • Will the Europeans resolve their own...

Steve Jobs was already gravely ill with cancer when he asked author Walter Isaacson to write his biography. Jobs told Isaacson to write a...

With about 40 minutes of trading, the S&P500 has pierced its 1230-33 resistance (which includes the 100-day moving average) though...

Yes We Can … Recover Fraudulently-Earned Money Nicholas Taleb said recently that the bankers “hijacked the American economy,” and...

Here is yet another in our all-too-regular continuing series, courtesy of Ron Griess of The Chart Store: > click for larger charts

I find it interesting to see the debate framed in terms of huge companies battling over inventions — but to me, the much bigger...