Even though we brace for the worst, when the unemployment numbers are announced each month, it’s hard not to be shocked. With the news on Friday that the unemployment rate is now at 10.2%, no o

“Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged”- Paul McCartneyAs I returned last night from a spooky weekend in Baltimore, my mind wandered to this morning’s column. Afte

For millions of followers worldwide, their time of worship occurs not on Sunday mornings but weekday afternoons. Their altar consists not of holy artifacts or a pulpit but of a television and some th

President Barack Obama today will announce grants ranging from $400,000 to $200 million for equipment designed to boost the efficiency of the nation’s electrical transmission grid.These “

What’s a Fed to do? We get talk about tightening and taking away the easy credit, but we got the fourth largest monetization on record last week. This week we examine the elements of deflation,

Old school Minyans might recognize the title of this column. It was used in January 2005 after a spiritual awakening in Arizona. When I walked into the desert that day, I operated from a place of fin

As he travels the country, chatting with C-suite executives from a range of diverse industries, Joe Milano, the 37-year-old manager of the T. Rowe Price New America Growth Fund (PRWAX), hears a commo

Editor's Note: “Memoirs of a Minyan” is a first-person account that follows Minyanville founder Todd Harrison as he weaves his way through Wall Street and beyond. This e-Book will publish

If I buy a single futures contract for ethanol on the Chicago Board of Trade, am I literally buying 29,000 gallons of the stuff?What about picking up a contract on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for

1) Do We Need Debt to Recover?This is a good question. Do we? According to the Wall Street Journal, citing a recent study of all nine post-World War II U.S. recessions by Barclays Capital, the answer