The Big Picture

Another month, another new low: Existing-home sales resumed its fall. The ugly details follow: • Sales of single-family homes fell 3.2%...

The anticipated bear market bounce in Financials has led to the usual fools’ chorus that the worst is behind us, the economy is on...

Nice interactive chart on the Beige Book accompanies this realistic article on the precarious conditions of State finances: "The...

Investor Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, talks about the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the global...

We work with a very talented graphic designer — Remo over at Synergy — he not only did the Fusion Website, they have done...

And now for something completely different: Very cool visualization of Geographically-based Economic data: via Flowing Data (also,...

Actually, the dollar is off of its recent lows, but this email, via Hong Kong, was too cute not to pass along:

From Canada, who may end up being more Capitalist then us Socialists in the USA: Two major related threats loom over the world economy:...

There is no small amount of irony in this: "John Paulson, the money manager whose wagers against the U.S. housing market helped him...

What is a dead pledge? Well, that is the literal translation of the word mortgage: 1390, from O.Fr. morgage (13c.), mort gaige, lit....