The Big Picture

I just love this WSJ headline: Zimbabwe Can’t Paper Over Its Million-Percent Inflation Anymore...

Thursday is monthly NFP data. Consensus is for minus 60k — I won’t be surprised if we see double that, a six figure plus drop...

David Leonhardt discusses a few items today which are regular discussion points here at TBP. My favorite lately is why the public is so...

Our Institutional Research firm — my day job — made a short term buy call last night. Its only a trading call, but I will see...

More straight talk from an old hand in the building sector: "Billionaire investor Eli Broad said the U.S. economy is in the...

“Housing optimists have systematically misjudged the market. Some became convinced that the huge runup was justified by...

NOTE: This Market Commentary alert was originally emailed to subscribers at Ritholtz Research & Analytics on Tues 7/1/2008...

Lately, I have been playing with Posterous — a no coding necessary, post by email blog site. Email text, pictures, mp3s,...

This is one odd list: Really? Greg Mankiw — Doom & Gloom? What the hell is that about? Here’s the list, the full...

A fund manager of my acquaintance — who has been short and is just killing it lately — writes in: NYT: Stocks bounced...