They call it the "Botax." The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other procedures as they searc

Editor's Note: This article was written by Richard Suttmeier, chief market strategist at ValuEngine.com, which is a fundamentally-based quant research firm in Princeton, New Jersey, that

The rhetoric surrounding gold now glitters as brightly as the metal itself. Gold is slipping today, but its recent move has been dramatic and historic: in fact, gold reached a new all-time high price

Economist Brad DeLong, of the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley, is getting increasingly pessimistic. He says the chance of Great Depression now is at 5%:  For 2 1/4 years now I have been

The Senate approved yet another plan to stimulate the economy. It's called, throwing $33 billion at homebuilders. This is, of course, doing nothing but giving money to the greedy people that helped c

Twenty four Senators and 63 House Representatives have completely lost their minds over pork bellies. Apparently the free market doesn’t work, hog farmers aren’t making enough money, and

The Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote Thursday to draft “net neutrality” rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from slowing or blocking content on their

Saving the dinosaur press is apparently a bipartisan effort -- and blather from both sides of the aisle doesn’t give a bad idea a patina of credibility. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, a Republ

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization tha

Approximately 100 million customers shop America’s Wal-Mart (WMT) stores each week -- that’s about a third of the entire population of the United States. This translated into revenue last