The Big Picture

I was at a lunch recently with about 10 people. One of the participants was an analyst from Portugal — smart guy, delightful...

Center for Neighborhood Technology has a very cool interactive site going: Housing + Transportation Affordability Index. It covers...

Boone Pickens details to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil: click for Video UPDATE: July 9, 2008 9:43pm Jeff...

This may be a record l o n g time elapse between us posting on some interesting but obscure site, and the MSM eventually...

Following up on our Polyanna post last week, here’s some more Leonhardt: While Congress is barking up the wrong tree —...

We’re going way back for this one: “With an aggressive legal maneuver, Citicorp is taking another step in the battle to...

Americans signed less contracts to purchase previously owned homes in May for the third month in four, falling 4.7%. This was...

Interesting analysis via David Rosenberg of Merrill Lynch: "There have been five phases to this current down-cycle – the first...

We continue to hear a steady drumbeat of partisan political market commentary from all the usual quarters. Their claim — stunningly...

Serious words from Robert Rubin: "Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said that the world economy still faces "extended...