Friedrich Nietzsche wrote:  “To trace something unknown back to something known is alleviating, soothing, gratifying and gives moreover a feeling of power. Danger, disquiet, anxiety att

“I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this.”-- Harry DunneIt was perfectly planned, a summer sojourn to end the season and recharge my batteries for the home stretch

Greetings from New York where here, and throughout the country, a big to-do is being made over the Commodities Futures Trading Commission confessing that “speculation” may have had someth

What About the Original Dow Jones 30 Stocks? The Dow Industrials was expanded to 30 names from 20 on October 1, 1928. Today, only 9 names of the original 30 remain in the Dow. The committee at D

In the 90s, wrestling fans were treated to a matchup bigger than any championship brawl. Stone Cold, Triple H, Hulk Hogan - none could deliver the same level of intensity as the rivalr

What does it mean for Citigroup (C) to be at $3? As it turns out, it distorts the information we think we’re getting from the Dow Jones Industrial Index. And more TARP money is surely in our fu

Over the course of the near-collapse of the financial system, the government has moved quickly to shore up those institutions it deems to be too big to fail, while letting others go quietly into the

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&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

To drill or not to drill? What's good for offshore drillers such as Transocean (RIG), Noble Corporation (NE) and ENSCO (ESV) isn't necessarily good for consumers. Even a major oil discovery off the co