The Big Picture

My boychik Doug Kass has a good quote in Jack Healey’s NYT column today: This month, after the stock market staged one of its...

Good Evening: While I was away, the markets celebrated our government’s latest plan for ending the financial crisis. Today the...

OK, time to crowdsource some comedy from your creative minds. So far, we know that GM stands for: Government Motors Gimme Money Anything...

Nice interactive chart at CNN/ Money: > via CNN/Money

Fascinating infographic via the FT on the top twenty financial institutions, according to market cap. Click either of the graphics to...

As soon as the news broke about Waggoner’s resignation, I put up a quick post, writing: “I am no fan of Wagoners, but I have...

In the economic and investing environment that we are in where the gov’t is so involved with every aspect, particularly in our...

More on the Geithner Plan. The problem of banks buying the assets from themselves

“I don’t know of any economist who doesn’t believe that better functioning capital markets in which assets can be...

> Uh oh, looks ugly out there this morning. Nikkei fell nearly 400 points, off -4.53%; Hang Seng fell over 650 points, off -4.70%....