1. The Ever-Sensational Looming Global Economic CollapseThe word came down hard and fast late Wednesday evening, "Société Générale has advised clients to be ready for

Open up that fortune cookie and the message couldn’t be simpler: The Chinese economy is going gangbusters.The boys in Beijing managed to drive home a near 9% real GDP growth rate in the third q

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.” --Ellis Boyd Redding, Shawshank Redemption Is anyone else having the strangest sense of vuja

Tracking the ups and downs of commodities in the news.What About Silver? Gold has been on a tear, but so has this metal. What’s next?by Josh LiptonOctober 12, 2009The Cool Kids Still Like Gold

Google's (GOOG) Android mobile-phone operating-system software is the talk of the town this week. Verizon (VZ) is hoping Android will help it leapfrog, or at least gain some ground on Apple's (AAPL)

There was some un-American-style bearish speculation about silver the other day. This is via Schaeffer's:   Put volume was unusually heavy last Friday on iShares Silver Trust (SLV), with acti

If technology stocks led the market higher and the semiconductors lead tech, what can we read into... Altera (ALTR) recently raised guidance and the stock was flat. Diod

It’s been a long, hot media summer where I live in the mile-square city of Hoboken, which has an economic health closely linked to that of Manhattan. First, an alleged bribery scandal

Inquiring minds are reading the details of an interview in the Tuscaloosa News with Congressman Spencer Bachus. Please consider Bachus discusses Social Security, health care.  “Social S

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