The Big Picture

Excellent Sunday morning chart porn in the Business section of today’s NYT, regarding the various components of CPI inflation...

Here’s a question worth pondering: What is Yahoo (YHOO) actually worth per share, both today and 3-5 years from now? I expect...

When the Microsoft-Yahoo news came out last night, I suggested that "the Fed ought to kick in the additional $8 billion or so to...

S&P guest on this Marketwatch video does not mince words:

Nice acoustic version on Colbert: My friend Gene represents her, REM, Joe Cocker, a bunch of other artists. Hey,...

Its not you, its me . . . > Is that it? After all that sturm und drang, the chase ends like this? Microsoft sweetened its offer to...

In the comments of an earlier post, Roman asks "If you are going to not consider the birth/death adjustment, then its only fair to...

In Barron’s this week, Alan Abelson laces into BLS on the NFP data: "We’re talking instead about something much more...

Today’s WTF headline is courtesy of the WSJ: Jobs Data Show Hopeful Sign, Though Economy Still Ails: Employers cut jobs in April...

Podcast from the UK’s Martin Wolf in the FT on Housing Bailouts, and government actions: