10 reasons why stocks presently make sense: 1. At 14 times (give or take) next year’s earnings, the S&P 500 is, historically speaking, reasonably

Here’s a snippet from Paul Krugman’s last Thursday column The 1 Percent’s solution:  Thus, the average American is somewhat worried about budget deficits, which

A friend recently emailed (the subject line reading “Krugman has won”) me the following: I’m not going to buy into the premise that you

Here’s Robert Samuelson making sense in yesterday’s Washington Post: The International Monetary Fund recently held a conference that should concern most people despite its

What would you say if I told you that at anytime, at my discretion—to protect the firm—I could turn down your request to deposit

The insufferable Paul Krugman is having a field day with a new batch of research that allegedly refutes the claim—that a 90+% debt to

When is bad news for the market really good news for the consumer? When the headline reads “Stocks Sell Off More Than 1% as

Here’s our pretend duo, Q and A (inspired by my conversations with clients), discussing liquidity, the market, basic economics, international trade and government intervention: