The Big Picture

BLS data on Nonfarm payrolls is out, and its fugly: NFP fell 17,000 in January — the first decline since August 2003 (-42,000)....

In all the hubbub about the MSFT/YHOO bid, we almost overlooked the December Non Farm Payroll data. There were a very mixed set of data...

This morn, all eyes are on the takeover proposal, in a letter from Steve Ballmer to Yahoo’s Board of Directors, stating an offer of...

Tomorrow, we find out just how much the B/D adjustment overstated true job creation in 2007. Every year, the Annual CES benchmark...

> "No emergency can justify a return to inflation. Inflation can provide neither the weapons a nation needs to defend its...

I was doing some prep work for my panel appearance on next week’s MoneyTech conference, when I came across David Armano (Critical...

Below you will find the cover image art from the past two weeks Barron’s. I cant wait to see what this week’s version looks...

Good morning. I have a date today with the lovely Alexis Glick, discussing the Fed, the markets reaction to it, and what it might mean...

Someone needs to inform the SEC that their job is to protect shareholders — not wayward corporate management. For an SEC commission...

Harvard’s Ricardo Hausmann has some tough comments for the US politicians and Fed: Stop whining and take your medicine like a man:...