Inquiring minds are interested in figuring out how long it might take to get back to "full employment" defined as 5%.John Mauldin touched upon this theme in Unemployment: Welcome to the New

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The holiday pricing wars have officially begun. Late Thursday, Walmart (WMT) announced it would cut the online price of 10 highly anticipated DVD releases to $10. Just hours later, Amazon (AMZN) and

A tough (and Tufts) end to trading after a stand pat Fed saw shares stand still, equities giving up earlier increases to end mixed as markets discovered a House is not a home. Our elected Representat

As earnings season starts to wind down, the health of the economy will be on everyone’s radar. This past week investors were greeted with a better than expected GDP number. It was the first tim

Sorry folks, I was one month early. In January I forecast the unemployment rate would hit 9.8% by August. Meanwhile, even though it was clear the Fed was wildly off base in its adverse scenario, the

Buyers beware the beginning of a month. Taking their cue from yesterday’s sixtieth birthday celebrations in Beijing, stocks opened October amid a sea of red, the Dow’s decline eclipsing a

A poor reading by the ISM index knocked stocks back today. For the month of September, the index came in at 52.6 compared to analysts' estimates of 54.0. During the month of August, the ISM had a rea

Marking the one-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers demise, risky assets last week again marched higher to the tune of economic data supporting the argument of a global economic recovery. A reali

As every school child knows, water is formed by the two elements of hydrogen and oxygen in a very simple formula we all know as H2O. Today we start a series that starts with the question: What are th