The Big Picture

Well, the new Business Week is out. Its the special year in preview forecast edition. I am participating in it again this year. You may...

The delightfully impish Doug Kass ("The Anti-Cramer") looks at the parallels between the 1994 tightening period and the...

An expanded version of an earlier commentary is up on both The Street.com (no subscription req’d) and Real Money, titled Rethinking...

The WSJ reported that "Housing starts rose sharply in November, up 5.3% to a 2.123 million annual rate. October and September were...

I send a friend an email about Threadless, one of my favorite t-shirt design shops. He emails back: "No wonder you like it...

I just had an interesting conversation with Mike Panzner, Director of Institutional Sales Trading at Rabo Securities. Mike is a quant who...

Our usual Tuesday Music and Film posts will be delayed until I fight my way (no subways) into the office.

Is it just me, or does the new CNBC look come across as well, more of a Football Game than a financial news channel? Maybe I just...

We’ve been hearing an awful lot of chatter about Bullish and Bearish sentiment lately. It’s a subject near and dear to our hearts,...

Business Week’s 2006-year end predictions are out, and they cover 75 or so Wall Street Strategists and Analysts. Over all, they seem to...