On Monday night we posted Tyler Durden's breakdown of the SIGTARP audit of the AIG bailout. Will this report resurrect the Fed Audit movement now that Ron Paul's End the Fedbook release PR has died down?

I contacted Congressman Alan Grayson to see how some of our representatives view...

At the beginning of George W. Bush's presidency, political rhetoric regarding China took the form of old-school Cold War mantras. At the time, US consumption and Chinese production were as dependent on one another as heroin addicts on Afghan poppies. Thus, the "threats" were nonsensical political scapegoats.

As President...

In 2008, I closely commented on the demise of Lehman Brothers and the hidden cancers on other balance sheets. At the time, the fraudulent real estate bubble found a poster child in Lehman investment McAllister Ranch: a three square mile development in which Lehman dropped a quarter billion...

Here we are approaching 2010, and we have not yet punished the thieves who caused the Greatest Heist in History. It's one thing for justice to elude Osama...

Jim Rogers is one of the most respected investors in the world. I had a chance to chat with him the other morning to get more details about some of his recent comments in the...

Yesterday I received what was either a Halloween trick or extortion: a letter from Blue Cross Blue Shield notifying me of a 24% rate increase starting January 2010. Quite simply, this is price gouging per se.

Since this is a financial media site, I thought it would be educational to...

This may sound like common sense to investors and traders, but most people -- including policy makers -- do not readily accept the flawed nature of economic models.

Thank goodness we have professor David Colander testifying to Congress in order to enlighten an otherwise dim room. Colander's work at...