Surprise! It's Christmas! (again...) Christmas always seemed to surprise me when I was first living on my own. It would be about this time of year I realized that I needed to spend a large sum of mon

Friday’s successful launch of Dollar General’s (DG) IPO suggests the recession is a good time for deep discounters, or stores that offer rock-bottom prices to cash-strapped shoppers.Dolla

Editor's Note: Matthew Beller is a former employee of the Federal Reserve Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He currently works for a private investment firm in Los Angeles, California

I'm the first to confess that dealing with kids and money is difficult. And I'm sure you come to Minyanville looking for well-researched and thoughtful articles on difficult issues. Sadly, this artic

Asian stocks rose overnight. The Hang Seng and the Nikkei were up 0.27% and 0.63%, respectively. European stocks were, however, a bit of a mixed bag early this morning. And here in the US, we're curr

A great market coach, a famous financial blogger, and a dear friend, Dr. Brett Steenbarger recently wrote this piece on trading and response inhibition, which I highly recommend to fellow Minyans.In

Last week, I confessed to a frugal heresy. Namely, we don't clip coupons. So how are we saving money if we're not busy annoying the people in line behind us with a huge coupon stash?In a nutshell, we

About the best that can be said for 2009 is that our world didn’t actually blow up, though there were moments when it looked like it might. The bad news is, now we have to get all revved up for

Big sporting events don't always bring financial benefits to local retailers, and can often cause businesses not associated with the event to take a hit, according to the economists. For every visito

I’ve been in South America this week, speaking nine times in five days, interspersed with lots of meetings. The conversation kept coming back to the prospects for the dollar, but I was just as