The Big Picture

Source: Another Run for the Bulls: Fabulously Low Interest Rates Help End Markets’ Decline, but Investors Wonder How High Stocks...

New York Times’ Floyd Norris on the 2003 market: “So powerful was the market’s advance that many stocks –...

via NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/01/business/01STOX.html?hp

Holy Cow! I TiVo’d Kudlow & Cramer last night (New Year’s Eve). Larry Kudlow, interviewing Glenn Hubbard, asks:...

A quick post before heading out for New Years (what type of wonk feels compelled to write about these things on New Years’s Eve? I...

Good advice from the nice folks at Charles Schwab online brokerage: 10 Year-End Moves to Reduce Your Taxes 1) Harvest your investment...

Apparently, Tom Toles of the Washington Post has views similar to my own regarding the veracity of government statistics . . . Source:...

I am scheduled to appear tonite (Monday, December 29th) on Kudlow & Cramer’s “year in preview.” That’s on at...

2004: How The Pros See It I participated in this year’s survey, even though I do not really believe in forecasting one year out....

Our discussion on how silly so many economic releases are, Reality vs. Perception: The 3 Minute Mile, got picked up by Barron’s....