The Big Picture

Wheatland, Wyoming seems to have the cheapest gas in the nation: Picture courtesy of the Sheridan Press (PDF) Hat tip John B

I guess this makes it official: The net is now a bigger source of news than newspapers, according to Pew Research Center for the People...

Very amusing video, via John P at All Things Digitials:

Vincent Farrell, Jr. is Chief Investment Officer of Soleil Securities, a New York based investment management company. Over his long...

Nice updated depiction of the classic Case Shiller chart, by regular TBP reader Steve Barry. We are now at 158, and SB sees the mean...

Barron’s Michael Santoli discusses what market patterns to expect in the closing days of 2008 and the beginning of 2009. 12/29/2008

A Long Hot Summer Winter Chills Spring Hopes December 30, 2008

Data through October 2008 shows continued broad based declines in the prices of existing single family homes across the United States,...

Report and analysis by Mark Barton of Bloomberg News; Report and analysis by Sara Walker of Bloomberg News Spring December 30, 2008 Fall...

The Top 10 quotes of 2008, as compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations: > 1. “I can see Russia from my...