Stocks stopped to catch their breath after recent robust rallies, but the Dow did post a fifth straight gain to end at its best level since October of ‘08. For the market overall, optimistic in

For the second time this year, New York Governor David Paterson proposed a tax on non-diet soft drinks to help the state close its $3 billion budget gap.In addition to raising much needed funds, the

Stocks surged, the Dow’s best day since July taking it back above 10,000 as gold rallied for a fourth straight session (see Why Gold Could Still Triple From Here). US worker productivity posted

The holiday pricing wars have officially begun. Late Thursday, Walmart (WMT) announced it would cut the online price of 10 highly anticipated DVD releases to $10. Just hours later, Amazon (AMZN) and

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One of the most memorable moments from the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona came when Michael Jordan and the rest of the “Dream Team” received the gold medal for crushing their opponents b

What’s a Fed to do? We get talk about tightening and taking away the easy credit, but we got the fourth largest monetization on record last week. This week we examine the elements of deflation,

Peggy Noonan, maybe the most gifted essayist of our time, wrote a few weeks ago about the vague concern that many of us have that the looming monster has the potential (my interpretation) not only to

  It was an epic in the making -- one rife with feuds, no-shows, and incessant fine-tuning.An album of mythic proportions. How far along is it? Could it ever be completed? Is Geffen really pre