The Big Picture

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...

This is a classic:> "I don’t know why the banks had to find new ways to lose money when the old ones were working so...

I keep hearing how there was an unusual amount of volatility in 2007. That assessment is wrong. We have become used to the aberrationally...

The new Real Money column mentioned yesterday has been moved to the free TheStreet.com site. For some reason, its been retitled: 13...

Our original thesis back in May 2005 was that Home prices could retrace as much as 25%-35% from the peak to re-establish a normalized...

First CDs, then DVDs, concerts and now movie theater ticket sales "Ticket sales at North American movie theaters totaled $9.7...

Google News added a new tab today: Google Elections:

As the indices accelerate to the downside — the Dow Industrials are off 240 points as I type this — its as good a time as any...