Stocks shrugged off a surprising decline in consumer confidence from the University of Michigan (or was it Ohio?) to finish higher Friday on light volume and end a second successive winning week. Dis

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

George Soros discusses an entirely different crossroads. I've been too cautious the last few months and I own that. I'm usually early, however, and while I certainly see both sides, my sen

This week’s review comes to you in a shortened format as I’m about to leave Cape Town for a visit to the colder environs of Switzerland and Slovenia. Although reduced commentary is provid

It's no wonder that gold is soaring with the US, UK, and China all printing money like mad. Throw enough money around and gold is bound to rise regardless of anything else that might happen (all of i

Rewind the movie to before the stock market lows of March 9: stocks down, corporate bonds down, commodities and gold down, emerging-market currencies down, safe havens in fashion, including the US do

“I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.” -- Jay-ZFrom the Marcy Houses in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, to a hip-hop superstar with nearly 40 million albums sold, to a corner offic

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Dear Mr. Bernanke,I have a confession to make. In my recently published book, I didn’t speak too kindly of you nor your predecessor, “easy Al”. I still believe my criticisms of Mr.

This week, Google (GOOG) launched a global marketing campaign to advertise its online apps to business holdouts still relying on desktop programs by Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), and IBM (IBM).Acco