The chorus of “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”, music by John Kellette, and lyrics by James Kendis, James Brockman, and Nat Vincent, first performed on Broadway in 1918 (That’s r

Insider trading is back, big time. On Friday, federal prosecutors and the SEC charged Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of New York hedge fund the Galleon Group, with insider trading in the stocks of sever

Couples Retreat but equities advance. Vince Vaughn’s rom-com ruled at the box office as the S&P 500 posted its first full week of unbroken gains since November 2006. The Dow ended at a fres

Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992), Austrian economist, author and 1974 Nobel Prize-winner for Economics wrote: “With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governme

Calculated Risk has an interesting chart and discussion on the unemployment rate and Fed rate hikes.  Unless inflation picks up significantly (unlikely in the near term with so much slack in

If you have a job and it’s not in jeopardy, pull out the party hat and toot your horn. The OECD calls an end to the global recession.  “The global downturn was effectively declare

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Various news media reported this week that demand for gold sank to a 5.5-year low in the second quarter of 2009 after jewelry consumption dropped by more than one-fifth. This sounds discouraging, but

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