The Big Picture

If its Saturday nite, then its time for an Open Thread. The questions before you: Is this the end of the Fed cycle — or is it...

The Liscio Report, via Barron’s Alan Abelson, notes the multiplier effect of each dollar spent on Housing. "We’ll...

Three months have passed since David Sifry last published his State of the Blogosphere report. The most recent update shows the same...

Here’s a little classic SNL to tide you over on a lazy Friday afternoon.

So Steven Colbert and I get into a pissing match over the economy, and the next thing I know I get dumped onto his On Notice/Dead...

The Real Money column I mentioned yesterday has been moved to the (free) The Street.com side. Its a summary of lots of Fed related...

Look who’s caught up to reality: The economists who participate in the WSJ’s Monthly Economic Forecasting Survey: "This...

I picked a hell of a day to travel! Today, I left JFK to go to a conference in Denver Vail, Colorado– and let me tell you, it could...

Another terrific set of charts from the fine econ wonks at the St Louis Fed: Source:The Seasonal Cycle and the Business CycleSt Louis...

Norm Conley of the The Street.com and I were discussing the Market reaction post Fed, and we each were wondering why 1980 seems to be...