Although the October jobs report was considerably higher than expected, it contained numbers which indicate future problems in the housing…
Standard & Poor’s downgraded France’s credit rating from AA+ to AA, a move not matched by other credit-rating issuers.
Once king-of-the-hill smartphone vendor BlackBerry (BRRY) and its shares took another leg down, and I am inclined to think that…
J.C. Penney Co. (JCP) heads into the holiday season needing a gift from Ole St. Nick to appease investors.
Just as home sales and subprime mortgages inflated the real estate bubble in 2006 and 2007, today the U.S. auto…
Economic growth beat estimates, leading investors to worry that the Federal Reserve could begin tapering its stimulus sooner than expected.…
Yesterday, I gave a lecture at the historic Kansas City Public Library. I defended Wall Street and made the case…
For tax year 2011, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued $3.6 billion in potentially fraudulent refunds.
Spain reported 1.4% year-on-year growth in September, contradicting expectations of a 1.5% contraction.
The United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today that global grain production will be much more robust than…