More than most, the PR department at Goldman Sachs (GS) must be looking forward to the weekend: It just spent the last few days getting pummeled like Apollo Creed. Today, the hits kept right on comin

Should Goldman Sachs (GS) pay its vaunted legions of bankers and traders less money?According to the Wall Street Journal, some of the dominant global investment bank's major shareholders are answerin

Forget the statistical analysis, chatter from the guru of the minute, and the price of oil or gold, because we’re in a Mother Goose economy.The author of nursery rhymes summed up our current fi

A 40-year veteran of small-cap investing, Bill Nasgovitz never used to concern himself much with the broader macro picture of the US economy. A dedicated, bottoms-up value investor, Nasgovitz simply

In what should be no surprise, banks are cutting back on small business loans. Please consider CNN Money's Small business loans: $10 billion evaporates.  Eight months after President Obama bega

Editor's Note: Breaking news from our satire department.Goldman Sachs (GS) is dominating the headlines today with its 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative. The $500 million program will unlock the grow

Ah, the Christmas season. The hustle, the bustle, the inevitable familial strife over whether everyone can afford exchanging gifts this year.While most folks are preparing for the holidays by weighin

Editor's Note: This article was written by Richard Suttmeier, chief market strategist at ValuEngine.com, which is a fundamentally-based quant research firm in Princeton, New Jersey, that covers more

Almost nothing about Sheldon Adelson’s remarkable rise to wealth was conventional. There were no silver spoons, no Ivy League degrees, no friends in high places.Instead, Adelson became one of t

1. The Economic Crisis Takes a Virulent TurnThe word credit comes from the Latin "credere" which means "to believe, or to trust." That's really all you need to know about the mode