The Big Picture

From today’s NYT: The dominant story line of this year’s midterm elections is increasingly becoming the torrents of money, much...

Pretty cool looking, from Automobile mag: BMW’s striking Vision EfficientDynamics concept is headed for production in late 2012 or...

Perhaps the long awaited punitive phase of the bailouts are about to begin, courtesy of this FDIC announcement: The Federal Deposit...

As readers know, I was in Europe a few weeks ago, making a LOT of presentations. My London-based partners seem to feel that an hour or...

Sept private sector Payrolls totaled 64k, 11k below expectations BUT Aug was revised up by 26k and July up by 10k. Thus taken all...

Here’s the official release: Nonfarm payroll employment edged down (-95,000) in September, and the unemployment rate was unchanged...

Good Friday morning. The weekend is almost here, and none too soon. In about an hour, we will get the NFP data. In a nation with a labor...

At one point in history, equity markets were giant discounting mechanisms, taking in all available information about the economy,...

This Sunday, 60 Minutes turns its eye to HFT’s impact on Wall Street. Excerpt: “New Jersey stock trader Manoj Narang says his...

In the blame game of what caused our financial meltdown following a massive credit bubble, we’ve all heard it was the bankers, the...