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

Seeing shades of blue? On November 14, the whole globe will be seeing them, too. The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is hosting World Diabetes Day and asking that monuments around the globe b

Inquiring minds are interested in figuring out how long it might take to get back to "full employment" defined as 5%.John Mauldin touched upon this theme in Unemployment: Welcome to the New

“Inspiration, move me brightly. Light the song with sense and color; hold away despair.”- Grateful DeadThere are moments in life you never forget; sometimes they arrive rather unexpectedl

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

Editor's Note: This article was written by James Quinn, a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held high-level financial positions wit

Last Thursday, I received an email concerning debt deflation from David Meier, associate adviser at the MotleyFool.David asked if I had any comments on his article Debt-deflation: Just the beginning?

Japan has gone through two lost decades, in and out of deflation, with nothing to show for it but increasing debt to GDP and a stock market still 70% below its peak.Now, Richard Koo of Nomura Researc

Rallies -- and rally monkeys -- were all the rage yesterday as major markets reached new 2009 peaks, a performance which played particularly well in Peoria with hometown hero Caterpillar (CAT) (

Have you wished that back in the middle of 2003, you'd recognized that the economy was recovering, and that when Apple’s (AAPL) new Macs and iPods were starting to fly off the shelves, you'd pu