Okay, so I was right, dang it! Although, predicting Bernanke’s tone before Congress, that is, anticipating dovishness from the ultimate dove, does not a

This morning Zara and I had a very good, and frank, discussion about present monetary policy. Click here to view…

Dean Baker is passionately opposed to Larry Summers succeeding Ben Bernanke, as he states in his Huffington Post article The Return of Larry Summers? 

Bernanke tested the water a few weeks ago and found that it was far too cold to go a swimming. Since then he has

My business requires me to stay in tune with the financial market narrative du jour: If only to help our clients—through my written commentary

One of history’s greatest quotes (in my humble opinion) came from one of history’s greatest economists, Frederich Hayek: The curious task of economics is

Paul Krugman, in his July 8 article, Urp Versus Derp writes: Jared Bernstein writes from Europe about the complete unwillingness of European policy makers to

Wow! Investors are dumping stocks today big time! “Say what?” you say, “the Dow’s up 170 points! Looks like investors are buying stocks big

Here’s a link to my contribution to last Saturday’s edition of the US Daily Review. And here’s a snippet: So then, under whose command

I climbed out of bed at around 7 this morning (the office is closed today)—after checking futures from my smart phone two or three