The Big Picture

Leave it to the clever boys at Goldman Sachs to turn dross into gold: They have come up with a way to hide massive losses so clever, it...

Dan Greenhaus is at the Equity Strategy Group at Miller Tabak + Co. where he covers markets and portfolio theory. He has contributed...

Good Evening: The U.S. stock market was able to shake off an early decline to finished mixed today, as financial stocks continued to bask...

Very funny take of Treasury Secretary Geithner as Charlie Brown: > via The New Republic > Source: Good Ol’ Timothy Geithner...

Interesting Bloomberg article on the current massive attempts to reliquify the system: “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is...

David R. Kotok co-founded Cumberland Advisors in 1973 and has been its Chief Investment Officer since inception. He holds a B.S. in...

Ron Griess of Thechartstore.com highlights the bank failures with this chart — 23 so far this year, versus 25 in all of 2008: >

With the rally on Friday and continuing today, Chinese stocks are now at the highest level since Aug 20th. Optimism that their economic...

Note: By coincidence, this post was written in International Waters a few miles off the coast of Grand Turks and Caicos. If Goldman Sachs...

Commodities have turned the corner Commodity prices have started to recover since the massive commodity fund liquidations and inventory...