In a sea of blue economic projections about holiday retail spending, there’s one beacon of hope. The two big shipping companies are forecasting increases in their holiday deliveries. Atlanta-ba

Thanksgiving is all about family gathering around a table laden with food, right?But there aren’t any rules about where the table is placed. Or if there are rules, maybe it’s time to brea

The precious metals market is correcting, as I mentioned it in "How Long Will the Dollar Keep Drowning Metals", when I summarized that it seems that gold, silver, and corresponding equities

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

Rewind the movie to before the stock market lows of March 9: stocks down, corporate bonds down, commodities and gold down, emerging-market currencies down, safe havens in fashion, including the US do

When last we caught up with researcher Jim Taylor, vice chairman of The Harrison Group, he talked all about the emerging new resourcefulness of consumers. This week, delivering an update on the behav

Sales of new houses fell in September, sending many builders’ stocks lower Wednesday. It seems the market wrote checks based on previous good news from the sector that the economy can’t y

The investment outlook is waxing at Madame Tussauds while waning everywhere else with stocks falling for a fourth day in five on weakness in financials and a jump in the dollar as Greenback and Green

This week, San Francisco is playing host to the annual Web 2.0 Summit, where tech giants and kings of social media discuss the future of online business and community. And on Tuesday, Twitter CEO and

The Dow and Nikkei each ended off, though they remain above the 10,000 mark which both recently breached to much fanfare. (Of course, go back two and twenty years respectively and the benchmarks