The business cycle is not dead. America has many coping mechanisms to deal with the current hangover. As it has before, this country will unleash the innovative, hard working and productive side of its citizens.
Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green
There is one fact about genetically engineered foods that there is no debate about: no one wakes up in the morning eager to buy gene-altered food. There's good reason for this.
Henry Blodget | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
People are starting to draw comparisons to 1983, the second-year of an amazing 18-year bull market that took the Dow up 10-fold. Could they possibly be right?
Sara Benincasa | Posted 10.08.2009 | Comedy
Alan Schram | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
The only sensible approach to investing is to buy into well-understood businesses when they are offered substantially below what they are worth, and to sell them as they approach intrinsic value.
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
Simply for acting like a leader this week, Speaker Pelosi wins the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award hands-down.
James Berman | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business
Common knowledge doesn't influence markets, only true surprises do.
AP | TIM PARADIS and SARA LEPRO | Posted 04.27.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Caution reasserted itself on Wall Street, sending stocks down sharply but not enough to stop the market from notching its third strai...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street is showing it still has some moxie. Investors shook off an attack of nerves that wiped out a big early advance Wednesday...
Diane Francis | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
Bank stocks had their best week on record last week and early this week as investors bet the bottom had been reached. I don't think so and hope I'm wr...
Washington Post | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
As the Dow embarked on a long slide after Inauguration Day -- a nearly 2,000-point slide, to be precise -- the drumbeat seemed to grow louder. "There...
Alan Schram | Posted 04.15.2009 | Business
Take the money earmarked to large, corrupt and failing banks that wretchedly brought us to the precipice, and have the FDIC offer matching capital to anyone setting up a new community bank.
Newsweek | Daniel Gross | Posted 04.14.2009 | Business
Investment professionals and econo-pundits claiming to speak for Wall Street have been blaming President Obama for the recent run of losses in the sto...
James Berman | Posted 04.11.2009 | Business
The successful investors will be the ones who wait out this period and reap the rewards once the tide turns, which it will. Soon we hope.
Alan Schram | Posted 04.08.2009 | Business
There is plenty of uncertainty now, but much less risk, because high quality stocks are available at much lower prices, and logically an investment is more attractive and less risky if made at a lower price.
Alan Schram | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
The new budget President Obama proposed last week is no less than another American revolution, an economic revolution that changes the very fundamenta...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — A relentless sell-off in the stock market Monday blew through barriers that would have been unthinkable just weeks ago, and investors...
Wall Street Journal | Peter A. McKay | Posted 03.31.2009 | Business
A late burst of selling sealed a dismal finish for the stock market, which hit a fresh 12-year low on Friday as Citigroup sold a bigger chunk of itsel...
The Big Picture | Barry Ritholtz | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
Check out the comparison of the current market, including Friday's low, to all previous bear markets. ...
AP | SARA LEPRO | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street ended its worst January ever by stumbling again over the banking system and the economy. The major indexes all fell shar...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 02.21.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Investors acted Wednesday as if they had overdone it a day earlier. Wall Street snapped back from a steep sell-off with a rebound in...
Alan Schram | Posted 02.19.2009 | Business
Spending is the problem that caused this crisis in the first place. We cannot fix the problem using more of its root cause.
Alan Schram | Posted 02.11.2009 | Business
Bear markets are difficult experiences, but they provide unique prospects. I believe we will look at the present U.S. stock market valuations as perhaps the best investment opportunity of a generation.
AP | MADLEN READ and SARA LEPRO | Posted 02.07.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — A warning from tech giant Intel about poor business conditions and more evidence of rising unemployment left stocks with their bigges...
Alan Schram | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
What should be intuitively clear is that spending is no way to repair our woes. Indeed, spending irresponsibly is exactly what got us in the current lugubrious position.
Alan Schram | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business