The Big Picture

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (June 1 – 7, 2009) Ups and downs on financial markets were plentiful during the...

Interesting chart sent to us from Wesley Allen, a grad student at Purdue. Wesley notes: The past 10 years have been close to the worst on...

We are coming to a critical inflection point, perhaps the most critical point that we have had in 70 years for the US and to a great...

For the past few years, I have been railing about data nonsense such as Core CPI, Birth/Death adjustment, Home Affordability Index,...

Nice review of the GT S on classic driver: The standard Maserati GranTurismo is an impressive car. Most testers, however, commented that...

In this morning’s NYT, Joe Nocera takes on one of my favorite subjects: Why the market is neither rational nor efficient. He does a...

Video-o-rama: Figuring out the lie of the financial land With investors trying to figure out the most likely direction of stock markets,...

As long as the American taxpayers are buying companies like GM, is there any way they could grab a couple of them that make money? The...

The action in the two year note today where the yield is up a dramatic 30 bps to 1.25%, the highest since mid Nov, is happening...

The 10 books to help you understand the crisis Cardiff Garcia 05 Jun 2009 Not surprisingly, the number of books about the causes and...