The Big Picture

Barron’s called it "The worst start since 1932." That is not how you want to start the new year. By the numbers, the...

Guy Lerner writes the Technical Take newsletter (thetechnicaltake.com). The following rules are his guidelines for improving your...

Speaking of Trust: If you clicked through to AMZN from here, and bought something, there’s a record of it that both Amazon and I...

That’s an intriguing question. It applies to personal relationships and business matters alike. I suspect the recent slippage in...

They Dow is down ~250, Nasdaq down almost ~100 as I type this. As the excuses and mea culpas roll out over the next few weeks, pay close...

We’ve had plenty of well deserved criticism for former NAR Chief Economist David Lereah. So you can imagine how much it tickled our...

You may have overlooked this short but fascinating column in Bloomberg yesterday: "Merrill Lynch, founded in 1914, sold hundreds of...

Wow, that’s a pretty ugly chart above. Here are the details, via BLS: "The unemployment rate rose to 5.0 percent in December,...

Once more unto the breach . . . This morning is the "all-important" December 2007 Non-Farm Payroll reports. Bloomberg’s...

With the Iowa Caucuses tonight, its as good a time as any to ask, what is wrong with this picture? Via UCSC Health Care Spending and Life...