That the present bull market in stocks is chiefly the result of ultra-easy monetary policy is a most popular presumption these days. An ever-increasing

“To give the monopoly of the home-market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to

Here’s a snippet from the Washington Post’s EJ Dionne’s article Hope That Governance Will Return to Washington: But the most hopeful sign of all

Now tell the truth, at (at least) one point over the past three weeks you were thinking about selling your stocks, weren’t you? I received

Here’s Paul Krugman, on his blog last week, displaying, yet again, his lack of understanding the bond market: Think about it: China selling our

As you may know, I am no fan of minimum wage legislation. I have, over the years, leveraged, chapter and verse, the work of

I just can’t do CNBC’s Mad Money program; Jim Cramer’s shtick doesn’t work for me. That said, while my office telly was tuned (yet

In a couple of interviews this week, that I happened to catch, the brand new Nobel laureate Robert Shiller expressed great concern for what

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It’s over! Non-essential government departments will soon be back up and running; regular employees will return to work, and the folks who us taxpayers