They call it the "Botax." The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections and other procedures as they searc

Editor's Note: Breaking news from our satire department.Goldman Sachs (GS) is dominating the headlines today with its 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative. The $500 million program will unlock the grow

Many people are finding the holiday tradition of making charitable donations difficult again this year, particularly if they're unemployed or worried about the economy. Charities, many of which norma

Editor's Note: See Ron Coby's first "letter" to Ben Bernanke here. Dear Mr. Bernanke,As a follow-up to my most recent letter, I once again want to say thanks. I was so relieved on Wednesday

If I wasn’t so in tune with news surrounding Apple (AAPL), I'd never have known that the iPhone launched in China last week. And no, it’s not because sales were so weak I have yet to see

Last Thursday, I received an email concerning debt deflation from David Meier, associate adviser at the MotleyFool.David asked if I had any comments on his article Debt-deflation: Just the beginning?

I’ve been in South America this week, speaking nine times in five days, interspersed with lots of meetings. The conversation kept coming back to the prospects for the dollar, but I was just as

The late Jesse Livermore is considered one of the best traders of all time. His exploits have been chronicled in several books, with the most widely read being Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Ed

There are people who earn money, which is correlated to creating value in society, and there are people who earn money by creating money-making schemes, which don’t correlate to real value in s

I've been talking about the Job-Loss Recovery for quite some time. (Click here to see recent examples of my discussion, and check out Professor Megan Barnett's explanation in The Decoder: Jobless Rec