The Big Picture

Yesterday, we looked at the week that was. Today, we preview the week that will be. We have an abbreviated week coming up: Wednesday is a...

I had a very interesting conversation this week with a writer/editor from a Men’s fashion magazine. Not, as you may have first...

Another week in the can. This one was a near mirror image of last weeks: The Dow and the Dollar were up, Gold and Oil were down. We...

In various publications, Ben Stein has been flogging the meme that because the sub-prime mortgages are such a relatively small percentage...

It seems that the ongoing retro throwback trend in music is continuing unabated. We’ve noted quite a few of these retro modern...

Fannie Mae’s fuzzy math: Fortune magazine reported that the lender changed the way it discloses bad loans, which could be masking...

Earlier this morning, we noted Starbucks’ (SBUX) inflation woes. When I wrote "Expect to see more problems like these," I...

> Won’t someone please fire these lazy headline writers? Its amazing to read these headers on inflation, which are then belied...

Brilliant commentary from a Daily Show writer about the Writer’s Guild strike: (if no video appears here, than try IE or Safari...

Apropos to our earlier Thain/Fink discussion: