“The big-picture perspective is that things have improved. The question is, how sustainable is this growth going forward?”-- Jan Hatzius, chief US economist at Goldman Sachs (GS), on the

Dr. Pangloss, the effervescent optimist in Voltaire’s novel Candide, may have kindred spirits at the National Association for Business Economics.The Washington, DC-based trade group representin

Editor's Note: The following article was written by Raymond James Chief Investment Strategist Jeff Saut. It has been reproduced with permission for the benefit of the Minyanville community.Octo

Mark Twain once quipped, "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." Sound advice, except when it comes to tracking down money to finance your college education.

Listen up, kids, here's what your parents are thinking: Students with a financial stake in their education are usually more focused on their studies and have sharper career goals than those who don't

Greed is back already -- perhaps it never went away. On the back of revived earnings, compensation for star bankers is looking up.Excessive executive remuneration is widely viewed as a symptom of thi

Do TV anchors have to be heavy? If a handful of accountants could topple the global financial machination, how durable can that structure possibly be? Yo

The phrase "short squeeze" is being tossed around a lot these days and a few folks have offered that the action off the March lows has been a function of that paper chase.My initial reactio

Editor's Note: This is Part 2 in a multiple-part series. Part 1 can be found here. Government LargesseA key risk remains in the ability of governments to finance their burgeoning government deficits.

At a recent cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators demonstrated how a hacker could take control of an Apple (AAPL) iPhone by sending a series of