The Big Picture

There’s a wonderful set of flash based illustrations of how CDOs are put together as an online companion that goes with the must...

We have been documenting the slow death of CDs over the past 7 years. This year brought the first slowing sales in that other shiny...

Hey, not everything I say is negative. Here’s some upbeat comments about Europeans going shopping here in NYC I made to the NY...

Data through October 2007 for the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices fell 6.1% year over year, showing broadbased declines in the prices of...

The Retail Sales post-mortem has begun, and it is as we expected: the weakest holiday spending season in five years. Total sales gains...

You may recall when I was shopping for flat screens, Best Buy was advertising the Panasonic 50″ TH-50PZ77U at $1799, but refused to...

I am working on a year end article for the Street.com — A Dozen Lessons from 2007 for CEOs, fund managers and investors. Since you...

While we won’t get the full data for a few days, some early numbers are beginning to come in. The most chartable thing I can say...

Perfect summation: via Bob Gorrell