1) Secular Risk AversionRemember these days. These dark economic times will one day be accused of imprinting enduring behavioral changes on those who lived through them. Of course, it is really socia

Editor's Note: The following is a free edition of Jeff Cooper's Daily Market Report.  For a FREE 2-week trial, click here.Come out upon my seas,Cursed missed opportunitiesAm I a part of the cure

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Unions, like democracy, work perfectly on paper. But both suffer a disconnect between concept and execution. Unions first sprung up in 18th-century Europe when women and children joined armies of poo

Greetings from New York, where the notion that the new regime is “bullish for alternative energy” is, to be perfectly blunt, the silliest notion I've seen since last summer, when I got an

Hello from New York, where my television is telling me Najarian is on fire - but I'm decidedly sparkless and simply playing out the string on one of the statistically worst and qualitatively most dif

Welcome to the jungle We got fun 'n' games We got everything you want Honey we know the names We are the people that can find Whatever you may need If you got the money honey We got your disease"

Next Tuesday, Google (GOOG) will unveil the much hyped HTC Dream, the first commercially available mobile phone shipped with Google's own open-source operating system, called Android. But this week,

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”  Verbal Kint We’ve located our pal Franklin Raines and, as we've been monitoring

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&