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

In case you needed more evidence that an economic recovery is far from imminent, it’s here.Consumers, buffeted by unemployment or fear of job loss and a tightening of credit, aren’t yet r

Editor's Note: This is Part 2 in a multiple-part series. Part 1 can be found here, Part 3 can be found here, and Part 4 can be found here.As an improvement on writing covered calls, Steve Smith's art

The Greek SystemBeing an options trader can sometimes feel like belonging to a fraternity; some gravitate toward the academic minded, some are athletically oriented, and some of us just go all-out An

Shares of Garmin have been all over the map the last several years. But in which direction is the stock headed from here? I think it’s more likely to stay flat or head south.Cheesy navigational

Absent an eve of Halloween horror show, stocks will avoid a red October after snapping a recent slide in emphatic fashion on GDP figures which showed the worst recession since the Second World War is

How is the consumer feeling?Not so great, it turns out.We learned this week that the Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) slipped to 47.7 this month from 53.4 last month. Consumers’ perceptions of c

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,

This morning I ran across two seemingly unrelated stories:Is Happiness Still That New Car Smell?-- New York Times, Oct. 21, 2009  The recession and a growing awareness of the environment are

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