The Big Picture

> What could be a more appropriate thing to do on Friday the 13th than have lunch with Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan author...

Events this week were dominated by the announcement of US Treasury Secretary Geithner’s Financial Stability Plan and a deal reached in...

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Efforts to avoid a deflationary depression will probably produce the opposite — a nasty bout of inflation, says John Williams of...

Interesting article in the WSJ this AM about earnings collapse. The flip side of earnings is valuation — and that is the main...

> Source: To Spend or to Save? Trick Question DAVID LEONHARDT NYT, February 10, 2009...

There is a strange and strangely interesting list of people to blame for the Financial crisis from Time magazine. It is quirky and odd...

David Axelrod, Senior Advisor to President Obama, defends the administration’s unveiling of a plan to rescue the nation’s...

Good Evening: The U.S. stock market saw two substantial drops and rallies today before finishing roughly unchanged. Economic and...

David Faber’s reports are usually very good — I have the Tivo set to record this one tonite at midnite (its also on at 8pm,...