The Big Picture

Over the years, I have been made the case that the U.S. economy is growing ever more slowly, while the rest of the world was...

Hale Stewart blogs as The Bonddad Blog, as well as at the Huffington Post. He is our guest author tonite for a rather unusual Friday...

Friday afternoon greenback funnies:

Pretty cool table, via doingbusiness.org looking at how easy or hard it is to do a variety of business functions in different countries...

This is circulating via email around trading desks: > Cheat sheet: reacting to data and market releases weak data = Fed ease,...

Numerous people have written, asking about how much liquidity is really in the financial system. I suspect the underlying cause of this...

I am going this evening to see my favorite sci-fi movie at my favorite movie theater with my favorite movie buddy. I’ll update this...

Markets have reversed, from up over 115 on the Dow to flat to down 50. There’s still 90 minutes to go until the close, so anything...

Here’s a clever if desperate way to sell a condo: "Believe it or not I am going to try to sell my condo one square inch at a...

Yesterday, the National Association of Realtors cheerfully forecast that Improvements in Mortgage Markets Bodes Well for Housing in 2008....