Social Mood Fuels the China Bull"China, despite its 5,000-year burden of history, has emerged as a dynamo of optimism, experimentation and growth," enthuses a Time magazine piece about Chin

Friday’s successful launch of Dollar General’s (DG) IPO suggests the recession is a good time for deep discounters, or stores that offer rock-bottom prices to cash-strapped shoppers.Dolla

No one goes into Walmart (WMT) and asks to pay extra sales tax. Thus sales taxes are reasonable barometers for retail sales. This week we look at how taxes are doing in a period of economic recovery.

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 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

Stocks surged, the Dow’s best day since July taking it back above 10,000 as gold rallied for a fourth straight session (see Why Gold Could Still Triple From Here). US worker productivity posted

Perhaps the only real surprise from the Fed’s post-meeting statement yesterday, market pros note, is that there was no surprise at all.So says Dennis Gartman, editor of The Gartman Letter. As t

First of all, this was not a hoax. Falcon was missing when the balloon lifted off. Why would we make a hoax with our kid?-- Richard HeeneWe all know about that balloon and we all have our own theorie

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