The Big Picture

“Defective documentation has created millions of blighted titles that will plague the nation for the next decade. -Richard Kessler, an...

At this point last year, the FDIC had closed “only” 100 banks. We are on pace to exceed last year’s record setting bank...

There is a fun mathematical discussion in the NYT Sports section today worth looking at. It turns out that major league hitters on the...

Fantastic set of aerial photos from Google Images (by way of Boston.com’s Big Picture), showing Florida’s developmental...

MarketBeat (WSJ Blog) – Here’s Why You Should Care about Dividends: ‘Bladder Theory’ A particularly pesky commenter has been...

Quite amusing: hat tip kottke

The law of unintended consequences has made decimalization part of the problem. Once trade execution went from a profitable business to...

I’ve been meaning to post something this week on Matt Taibbi’s fantastic new piece on the Tea Party (Tea & Crackers) but...

There is a nicely informative interactive graphic that accompanies the WSJ article we discussed earlier, showing most of the major...

Alt. title: Barclay’s Algo + Waddell & Reed Futures Sale = Flash Crash? The 104 page report by the staffs of the U.S. Commodity...