With worse than expected unemployment numbers and more bad news coming out of CIT and Fannie Mae (FNM), it’s been a tough end to the week.So what’s ahead?Join Todd for his weekly wrap up.

“There's a dragon with matches loose on the town. Take a whole pail of water just to cool him down.” --Grateful Dead It's hard to believe I've been scribing online vibe for almost ten yea

A year after investors lost their shirts, a bank paid $132 million to outfit a soccer team. Modest gains helped many major markets hit fresh ‘09 highs; the ghosts of twelve months ago are obvio

“Indians scattered on dawns highway bleeding. Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.” --The Doors Mark Twain once said history doesn’t always repeat but it some

Minyanville is an infotainment community that aims to affect positive change through financial understanding. We do that in many ways with an eye towards enjoying the journey despite these tryin

2008 has been a frightening time for global financial markets as ghosts of policies past haunt the house of pain. With Halloween upon us and October almost over, I wanted to share fare that scar

Barclays and Bank of America (BAC) have apparently given up on Lehman Brothers (LEH), which is going to file for bankruptcy protection.  Instead, Bank of America’s purchasing Merrill Lynch

Where is a socially liberal fiscal conservative to turn? Is everyone watching crude $110 a level of lore for Texas Tea enthusiasts? Was Monday’s downside reversal the official s

The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third