Innovation simply implies the use of a new method or technique. It can be harmful or it can be helpful. Let's keep score.
Jim Randel | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business
For now anyway, while June's housing numbers are certainly welcome, they do not indicate great news for a large segment of the U.S. housing market.
Schuyler Brown | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living
Slowly, painfully, we're leaving behind a dream of eternal youth and settling into a new idea about maturity.
Alicia Whitaker | Posted 08.17.2009 | New York
It's no secret that thousands of former Masters/Mistresses of the Universe have left Wall Street since last year's meltdown.
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business
Ok, so we all know the world has changed. The financial markets have been upended, and we're all more than a little chastened by the excesses of the p...
Karen Finerman | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
Women want to be powerful -- and we have made enormous strides -- but we have not yet fully embraced controlling our own financial destiny.
Michael Pento | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business
It would be politically and economically devastating for the Fed to dump $800 billion of Treasuries in addition to the $3.25 trillion they must sell in fiscal 2009.
zerohedge.blogspot.com | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business
With a subtitle like "From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - a...
Larry Gellman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
It seems pretty clear that Obama is actually insisting that we change the approach that led the economy off a cliff. I just don't get it.
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 07.23.2009 | Business
The current economic downturn offers an exceptional opportunity to rebuild and, this time, to make it an economy that works for all.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 07.21.2009 | Business
In recent weeks, as the market stalled, investors have gone back on a starvation diet. So what's next? If this past week is any indication, look for a resumption of financial heartburn.
Mike Lux | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business
I have been critical of Obama's approach to financial issues and I still believe he should go further than he is going. However, the regulatory reform package he put out today is a solid start.
CNN | Ben Rooney | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business
Banks continue to write off credit card debt as consumers hurt by record high unemployment default at an increasing rate. Regulatory forms filed this...
Politico | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama on Wednesday will call for the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency as part of his long-awaited plan for overhaul...
Washington Post | Anne Kates Smith | Posted 07.14.2009 | Business
Count on it: This proxy season, investors will not be shy about giving company management a piece of their mind. ...
Adam Hanft | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
Don't you think there's something massively wrong with these Masters of Arrogance paying off their debt with a little bit of interest, puffing out their chests to their former levels of self-inflation, and re-commencing their old ways, albeit with a bit less recklessness?
Andrew Reinbach | Posted 07.13.2009 | Home
Government has to be strong enough to handle any power or alliance of powers. It doesn't matter what those powers are: If a government can't stand up to them, it can't do its job.
Danny Schechter | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
Washington seems tethered at the hip to Wall Street and continues to do its bidding. Obama wants to give us confidence, but the most trenchant critics believe a total collapse is in the offing.
The Hill | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business
On the eve of a major overhaul of the financial system intended to prevent another crisis from erupting, the financial industry has built a more than ...
Jim Randel | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
Today's post is about real estate brokers. Here is my list of five sneakiest real estate broker tricks (please add to it as you see fit).
Jim Randel | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business
About 5 million young adults are graduating from college this month. This rite of passage is perhaps a parent's last chance to instill important lessons about the business world.
Jim Randel | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business
When is the U.S. is getting in return a banking system that is sufficiently accommodating to the folks that kept it alive ... the good, old American taxpayer?
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
The Democratic Party under Obama finds itself in a historic position of being both dominant and unified. This, of course, will not last.
Jim Randel | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business
Let's use our energies and experience not to prevent young adults from having access to debt but rather to educate them as to how to use debt responsibly.
Norb Vonnegut | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business
Get-rich-quick schemes are the new WMD.
Rob Johnson | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business