The Big Picture

My morning reads: • Five years on, the Great Recession is turning into a life sentence (Telegraph) • Why High-Frequency Trading...

Late Friday speaking to the SF Chronicle, SF Fed Pres Williams, a voting member, called for more QE saying QE3 is “a very big...

July 2012 Macro Factors and Their Impact on Monetary Policy, The Economy and Financial Markets Summary The global economy is likely to...

Via the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope via Wired

Dick Arms has what may be the most challenging technical charts I have seen in a while for the bulls: “There are times when the...

This is an embarrassing few moments:

Fascinating chart via Stratfor: click for ginormous graphic

Paul Farrell asks investors to be honest with themselves: “How successful are you as an investor? You a winner? If not, why not?...

Josh has a new post up about What Whole Foods Learned from the Recession. Here is a video that compliments that:

My early Sunday morning reads • How Paul Ryan captured the G.O.P. (New Yorker) • One One-Hundredth of a Second Faster: Building...