Edward R. Dewey was a Harvard-educated economist who worked for the Department of Commerce during the 1929 stock market crash. After the crash he was assigned the task of finding out what caused the

Even though we brace for the worst, when the unemployment numbers are announced each month, it’s hard not to be shocked. With the news on Friday that the unemployment rate is now at 10.2%, no o

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.

Anniversaries abound. Friday saw the most somber, and a spooky statistic eight years after infamy. Last week also marked six months since most major markets bottomed; their subsequent gain of almost

In Solving the Consumer Demand Dilemma, I mentioned that readers needed to pay attention to retail sales data and the ISM services data. The retail sales figures today were somewhat better than many

Got a college degree, but no job? Do the logical thing: sue! Trina Thompson sued Monroe College in New York for the $70,000 she spent on tuition because her new bachelor’s degree in information

We’ve all heard urban legends of successful people who became inspired and traded their careers for a life dedicated to helping others. There’s the faceless dot-com whiz who banked in the

Rolling Stone magazine was started in 1967 with a $7500 loan by one Jann Wenner, a UC Berkeley dropout, and Ralph Gleason, a jazz critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. dl#heads{ backgro

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Perhaps there's something about the daily onslaught of deranged government plans to "shore up" and "fix" the economy that is causing us to feel a certain hunger for understanding,