Car Rental Companies Ready to Break Down?Has anyone noticed how the car rental companies, Hertz (HTZ), Avis (CAR), and Dollar Thrifty (DTG) have gone parabolic over the past few months? I didn’

With a crazy commute and a crazy family to boot (I mean that in the nicest way possible, honey), I usually have something funny to talk about in every article. Today I've got nothing -

1) Credit Crisis Abating... Debt Crisis RemainsSo who'll bid for a Bible?A purchaser I crave. Live while we may, we'll drink today:There's no drinking in the grave.- William Gaddis, "The Recogni

1) Point of Recognition: Deflation and Real Rate Shock Hits CEOs"The point of recognition will soon be upon us. And this means people will begin to wake up to declining prices, increased savings

Tough Times for Dollar Thrifty Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group (DTG), the car rental company, had a better-than-expected first quarter, but warned of challenging fleet costs ahead. The company r

Equity markets had their biggest rally this year after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined steps to fix the banking industry in a morning address. His remarks, delivered to the Counci

What a day it was for the market. Turnaround Tuesday definitely lived up to the hype.Citigroup (C) came out and said they had 2 profitable quarters through the first 3 months of this year; all the ba

The stock market is on a tear this morning on the heels of a statement by CEO Vikram Pandit that Citigroup (C) has a profit for the first 2 months of 2009. In a letter sent to employees Monday,

1) Now It's the Economists' TurnWe knew this was only a matter of time."The downturn exposes the decline of economic expertise," Newsweek observes in the March 16 issue. "Think of all

Methodology is destiny when conducting a study. A study conducted by San Diego’s Utility Consumers’ Action Network, which purports to show cell-phone users pay an average of $3.02 a minut