Insider trading is back, big time. On Friday, federal prosecutors and the SEC charged Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of New York hedge fund the Galleon Group, with insider trading in the stocks of sever

Editor's Note: The following was posted in real time on our premium Buzz & Banter (click for a free trial). It's being shared here for the benefit of the Minyanville community. Like Ships in the

Judgment Day As I sit in a downtown Manhattan courthouse waiting to perform my civic duty as a juror, I’m in a judgmental frame of mind. Unfortunately, I'm coming to the decision that one&

I'll bite my lip and not comment about the federal government having the cojones to blame creditors for wanting Chrysler -- a company that has been bankrupt forever, as a practical matter -- to actua

Equity markets had their biggest rally this year after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined steps to fix the banking industry in a morning address. His remarks, delivered to the Counci

What a day it was for the market. Turnaround Tuesday definitely lived up to the hype.Citigroup (C) came out and said they had 2 profitable quarters through the first 3 months of this year; all the ba

The stock market is on a tear this morning on the heels of a statement by CEO Vikram Pandit that Citigroup (C) has a profit for the first 2 months of 2009. In a letter sent to employees Monday,

1) Now It's the Economists' TurnWe knew this was only a matter of time."The downturn exposes the decline of economic expertise," Newsweek observes in the March 16 issue. "Think of all

Methodology is destiny when conducting a study. A study conducted by San Diego’s Utility Consumers’ Action Network, which purports to show cell-phone users pay an average of $3.02 a minut

Mid-March is usually reserved for college basketball. But this year, there’s going to be a different kind of March Madness. I refer, of course, to the “deep dive” to be held on Thur