Editors Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past co

1. The Economic Crisis Takes a Virulent TurnThe word credit comes from the Latin "credere" which means "to believe, or to trust." That's really all you need to know about the mode

As I sit here trying to find value in the convertible-bond market for my clients (it’s there, but it’s a lot more challenging to find than it was a year ago), I’m struck by a couple

The past couple of years have claimed many victims on Wall Street, but there was a time when it felt like the finance sector’s top women were suffering a disproportionate number of job losses.

I love bull markets. I like to have faith in the future of our economy. And I’m tired of all the pessimism tied to the recession. Apparently, the entire market feels the same way. Since hitting

We should have known this would end horribly. The first "red" flag was the administration inventing a job called Pay Czar.There's a reason the communists whacked the last legitimate Czar an

Bob Seger once sang that seeing old friends is good for the soul. Following a three-day southbound sojourn, I would have to agree with him.After a Friday morning business meeting in Tampa, I was bles

“Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he leaves and goodbye when he arrives.”- Jerry Seinfeld, in a Bizarro WorldThis past spring, when men were men and sheep were nervous, we assum

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

This week we continue to look at what powers the forces of deflation. As I continue to stress, getting the fundamental question answered correctly is the most important issue we face going forward. A