Editor's Note: Breaking news from our satire department.Goldman Sachs (GS) is dominating the headlines today with its 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative. The $500 million program will unlock the grow

The present contains all possible futures. But not all futures are good ones. Some can be quite cruel. The one we actually get is dictated by the choices we make. For the last few months I’ve b

One of the option strategies I often warn against more than recommend is the basic covered call. This may seem odd given that covered calls -- in which one buys underlying stock and sells a related c

Minyan Al writes:  A rookie question: I sold four Google (GOOG) 560 October expiring naked calls recently and now it's going to come down quite a bit today. I think it might get down to 0.10

Peggy Noonan, maybe the most gifted essayist of our time, wrote a few weeks ago about the vague concern that many of us have that the looming monster has the potential (my interpretation) not only to

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Standing in the middle of nowhere, Wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, Between now and then. And now we’re back where we started, Here we go round again. -- The Kinks&r

Editor's Note: This is Part 5 in a multiple-part series. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 can be found here, Part 3 can be found here, and Part 4 can be found here.A University of Massachusetts

Without a doubt, the strength and duration of the rally from the March low has surprised many people, me included. Inquiring minds are wondering: Is there still one-third more to come? Barry Ritholtz

Van Hoisington and Lacy Hunt have figured out what few others have; namely, that excessive debt and falling asset prices have conspired to render the best efforts of the Federal Reserve impotent.Plea