“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

Minyan Morning Memo One to Watch: eBay (EBAY) announces earnings this afternoon. Until recently the company filled its coffers pawning off Pez dispensers and emptying America’s attic, beco

California, long the Land of the Loon, is now floating another loony idea: Legalize marijuana and tax it in an effort to close the budget gap.A state slug, cranking his (alleged) brain up to 40 watts

Equity markets had their biggest rally this year after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined steps to fix the banking industry in a morning address. His remarks, delivered to the Counci

What a day it was for the market. Turnaround Tuesday definitely lived up to the hype.Citigroup (C) came out and said they had 2 profitable quarters through the first 3 months of this year; all the ba

The stock market is on a tear this morning on the heels of a statement by CEO Vikram Pandit that Citigroup (C) has a profit for the first 2 months of 2009. In a letter sent to employees Monday,

1) Now It's the Economists' TurnWe knew this was only a matter of time."The downturn exposes the decline of economic expertise," Newsweek observes in the March 16 issue. "Think of all

Methodology is destiny when conducting a study. A study conducted by San Diego’s Utility Consumers’ Action Network, which purports to show cell-phone users pay an average of $3.02 a minut

Mid-March is usually reserved for college basketball. But this year, there’s going to be a different kind of March Madness. I refer, of course, to the “deep dive” to be held on Thur

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