With the US dollar falling down a precipice, spare a thought for non-US investors invested in US stocks and bonds. The graph below shows the performance of US 10-year Treasury Notes since the beginni

Recently, the government’s Pay Czar, Kenneth Feinberg, “suggested” that outgoing Bank of America (BAC) CEO Ken Lewis should take home $0 in salary for 2009, and receive a bonus of e

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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

  After a few summers highlighted by trips to the kiddie pool, my in-laws last year offered to look after our children so my husband and I could spend some time together. We chose the

Greetings from New York, where this column is either cursed or blessed -- fate will tell us, and we're powerless to control it. When I started, I was writing about doing research while gambling and g

Editor's Note: “Memoirs of a Minyan” is a first-person account that follows Minyanville founder Todd Harrison as he weaves his way through Wall Street and beyond. This e-Book will publish

1) Good News: We're Halfway There!I've been following an analog that a friend passed along several months ago comparing our current market juncture to the 1930s. The chart below shows the stock marke

1) Incoming! Data Watch for the Week Ahead It's relatively quiet on the data front with just a couple of things to watch this coming week: Housing Starts this Tuesday, the Federal Reserve Open M