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Navigating The Economy

Alan Schram | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business


Alan Schram

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.

New Report: GMOs Causing Massive Pesticide Pollution

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green


Andrew Kimbrell

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.

Start Of Another 18-Year Bull Market? Don't Get Your Hopes Up

Henry Blodget | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business


Henry Blodget

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?

Democracy WOW! With The Yes Men

Sara Benincasa | Posted 10.08.2009 | Comedy


Sara Benincasa

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Where Do We Go From Here?

Alan Schram | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business


Alan Schram

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.

Friday Talking Points [87] -- A Tale Of Two Houses

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Simply for acting like a leader this week, Speaker Pelosi wins the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award hands-down.

Fear Recedes

James Berman | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business


James Berman

Common knowledge doesn't influence markets, only true surprises do.

Investors cash in some gains from big rally

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...

Stocks manage moderate gain after erratic session

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...

The market bottom? no way Ben

Diane Francis | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business


Diane Francis

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...

Media Using Dow As Obama Tracking Poll

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...

A Better Plan for the Banking System

Alan Schram | Posted 04.15.2009 | Business


Alan Schram

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.

Why Obama Should Ignore The Dow: Newsweek

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...

Reports of the Death of Equities: Greatly Exaggerated

James Berman | Posted 04.11.2009 | Business


James Berman

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.

What the Market is Telling Us Now

Alan Schram | Posted 04.08.2009 | Business


Alan Schram

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.

The Obama Revolution

Alan Schram | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business


Alan Schram

The new budget President Obama proposed last week is no less than another American revolution, an economic revolution that changes the very fundamenta...

Dow Dips Below 7,000

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...

Dow Industrials Have Worst Month Since 1933

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...

Comparing Bear Markets, 1929-2009

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. ...

Stocks Stumble As Investors Fear Worsening Economy

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...

Dow Rises On The Backs Of Tech, Financial Stocks

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...

Stimulus Plans Don't Work

Alan Schram | Posted 02.19.2009 | Business


Alan Schram

Spending is the problem that caused this crisis in the first place. We cannot fix the problem using more of its root cause.

The Story of 2008: What Went Wrong?

Alan Schram | Posted 02.11.2009 | Business


Alan Schram

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.

Stocks Tumble As Time Warner, Intel, Alcoa Take Dive

AP | MADLEN READ and SARA LEPRO | Posted 02.07.2009 | Business

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NEW YORK — A warning from tech giant Intel about poor business conditions and more evidence of rising unemployment left stocks with their bigges...

How to End the Recession

Alan Schram | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business


Alan Schram

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.