In my opinion, the best comedy ever was the sitcom Seinfeld, and one of the most hilarious episodes was “opposite George." (Click here for a clip and a great laugh.) In this classic episod

Equities ended mixed in unusually tight trading. Buffett was a buffer against broader declines with his big railroad bet, but a downgrade of the semiconductor sector left Intel (INTC) (-2.68%) e

In April 2006, Stephen Colbert was invited to speak at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, DC before former President Bush and elite members of his cabinet. The outgoing

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Does anyone else feel as if this has been an extremely long week? With global leaders (one block) to the left and policymakers on the right, the data points and wild whips keep on coming as we edge o

Bing, Microsoft’s (MSFT) new search engine, is gaining market share.The question: Will it last?Microsoft appears to have developed competitive technology to take on Google (GOOG) in the cutthro

On Wednesday, Bing.com -- Microsoft's (MSFT) fourth incarnation of its struggling search engine -- will have been live for one full week. While its success and longevity would be hard to gauge so ear

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

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