The rhetoric surrounding gold now glitters as brightly as the metal itself. Gold is slipping today, but its recent move has been dramatic and historic: in fact, gold reached a new all-time high price

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 2005, Barron’s called him one of the 30 best CEOs in the world. Then Fortune placed his firm on its list of “Most Admired Companies”. One year later, American Banker presented hi

Forget about what he says. If you want to learn what Warren Buffett really thinks are money-making bets, look at what the old guru is actually doing.The greatest value investor of our time likes to p

Edward R. Dewey was a Harvard-educated economist who worked for the Department of Commerce during the 1929 stock market crash. After the crash he was assigned the task of finding out what caused the

The October retail sales numbers released this morning present a very mixed bag. Excluding autos, strategists say they looked mediocre at best. More to the point, the recent decision of corporate ins

This week’s review comes to you in a shortened format as I don’t have access to my normal research resources while on the road in Europe. Although very little commentary is provided, a fu

No one goes into Walmart (WMT) and asks to pay extra sales tax. Thus sales taxes are reasonable barometers for retail sales. This week we look at how taxes are doing in a period of economic recovery.

“I’m just a banker doing God’s work.”-- Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs (GS) “Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.”-- Ge

Editor's Note: This article was provided by Minyan Mark Majka.When you get massive government intervention and major policy change into a severe downturn, you have to start expecting the law of unint