Let's get our bearings here. What is short-selling? NYU Professor of Finance Steven Figlewski can explain: "You sell the stock with the expectation, ...
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 02.15.2009 | Home
Maybe the story of this jet crash is exactly the real life fable we needed seared into our nation's consciousness. What if yesterday's "miracle" was a perfect metaphor for 2009?
Alan Schram | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
The Treasury's policy did nothing to build confidence or stabilize the markets. The precipitous drop of the equity markets in October and November are the market's judgment on their policies.
William Klein | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business
"I'd been hoping to avoid this getting out," Greenspan said, "but I have an evil twin." With that, he seemed to acquire a bushy head of hair and a white beard and introduced himself as "Karl."
Henry Blodget | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business
The government's seizure of stakes in nine banks was designed to finally return the credit markets to some semblance of normal, so consumers and businesses can get access to money again. Unfortunately, we're still waiting.
Washington Post | Sebastian Mallaby | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business
The most stunning graphic of the past few days shows the stock market's reaction to government attempts to rescue the financial system. Between Monday...
Henry Blodget | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business
Why does Cramer think you should get out now? Because the market could decline 20% from here. That's possibly the worst justification for selling medium-term holdings I've ever heard.
Jim Pivonka | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home
The right has decades of experience in turning times of confusion and discontent into newly repressive policies-we have decades of experience in watching that happen.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
The CRA isn't even an issue. But that won't stop the the likes of Rush and his progeny from saying it over and over again until all sorts of people believe it.
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics
So, sorry, Ms. Palin, but something happened on Wall Street to bump you off the front page. A little major market crash, that's all. Now, the candidat...
Motley Fool | Tim Hanson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Six -- count 'em, six -- major financial firms now declare that the United States is in recession. That list includes heavyweights such as Goldman S...
Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business