Given the choice between immediate gratification and savings for the future, most Americans opted for new Italian loafers or a flat screen TV. Bucking that trend is the recent 6.9% saving rate increa

This week’s review comes to you in a shortened format as I don’t have access to my normal research resources while on the road in Europe. Although very little commentary is provided, a fu

This week’s review comes to you in a shortened format as I’m about to leave Cape Town for a visit to the colder environs of Switzerland and Slovenia. Although reduced commentary is provid

Perhaps the only real surprise from the Fed’s post-meeting statement yesterday, market pros note, is that there was no surprise at all.So says Dennis Gartman, editor of The Gartman Letter. As t

Editor's Note: Minyanville is excited to introduce our latest contributor, Gary Stern. Gary collaborated on Minority Rules: Turn Your Ethnicity into a Competitive Edge (Harper Collins) and The Troubl

As goes the US consumer, so goes Chinese manufacturing. Here's a long but educational video produced by Vanguard on several Chinese manufacturing cities and what the economic downturn has meant for t

During the week marking the second anniversary of the start of the credit crunch, stocks, copper, nickel, zinc, and sugar recorded fresh 2009 highs. But the celebrations came to an abrupt end as caut

Risky assets last week again marched higher to the tune of economic data supporting the argument of a global economic recovery. A realization among investors that the economic transition from recessi

I didn’t realize it until a friend told me earlier today, but one of the best-known avenues for individuals to invest in convertible bonds was closed off to incoming traffic last month. The Van

TIPS of the Day Consumer inflation plunged by the highest amount in sixty years, the Department of Labor said last Thursday. But still, that hasn’t prevented the world’s largest bond fund