The Big Picture

On Tuesday, I showed a chart of National Debt by President. Several readers said a more informative chart would include control of...

The Philly Fed was in line with estimates at 21.4, up from 20.2 in April and in contrast to the sharp drop seen in the NY manufacturing...

Oops, I posted this on the wrong day (yesterday) — not only am I three hours off via PCT, I am bamboozled by a full day. Take two:...

I love this quote: “Overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not...

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

The big banks make money by taking the bailout money we gave them and lending it back to the government with interest The Daily Show With...

The WSJ is reporting that Citadel Execution Services and Knight Capital Group both had technical problems just before the Ma 6th whoosh...

Initial Jobless Claims were higher than expected at 471k, 31k above estimates, up from 446k last week and the highest in 5 weeks. The 4...

The optimism from the successful sale of 10 yr notes at about 4:30am (B/C was 2.03 and money raise was upper end of expectations) in...

Here we go again: Futures look very weak, with the Dow indicating a drop of 175 at the open. The cascade is weak Euro (Greek related or...