Just watched a CNBC interview featuring dueling politicians… The Maybe-Former-Spendthrift from Georgia made the case for cutting entitlements… While the Still-A-Spendthrift from Maryland said

Your typical pessimist, as I say here on occasion, believes himself the realist, and the optimist the idealist… I’ve suggested however that, given how

Stocks are off this morning on news that China’s economy is slowing and U.S. import costs are rising… The thing is, China is actively

In yesterday’s market-numbing speech Fed Chief Ben Bernanke blamed the first quarter’s anemic growth on the price of oil, Japan’s tsunami, etc… Clearly, in

You breathe deep, squeeze the nozzle, then watch in horror… Two minutes later, you’ve traded $92.37 for a tank full of fuel… You think

Are you sitting down? Good… Here are two excerpts (the first one’s a killer) from Friday’s AP article Bleak Jobs Report Dampens Hopes of

Notwithstanding the market’s knee-jerk reaction to yesterday’s stats, I suspect traders (the bulls that is) are breathing a collective sigh of relief… Seriously, all

In Moody’s Threatens U.S. Debt Rating Cut, Thursday’s Wall Street Journal reported on the rating agency’s announcement that it “might review the government’s Aaa