The Worst Stock Predictions Of The Decade: See How Wrong The 2000 Predictions Were
Along with the looks back at the 2000s, we'll also see plenty of stories touting stocks for the next decade in the coming months. Prognosticating jus...
Along with the looks back at the 2000s, we'll also see plenty of stories touting stocks for the next decade in the coming months. Prognosticating jus...
Huffington Post | Grace Kiser and Ryan McCarthy | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
In case you missed it -- or were just plain confused -- this week saw the release of a bewildering number of housing indicators. The S&P/Case-Shiller ...
wsj.com | ELLEN E. SCHULTZ and TOM MCGINTY | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
Pensions for top executives rose an average of 19% in 2008, with more than 200 executives seeing pensions increase more than 50%, according to a Wall ...
BloggingStocks | Tom Johansmeyer | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
Economist and president of a research firm that bears his name, Andrew Smithers (not related to the Smithers of Mr. Burns fame) is saying our on-fire ...
nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
JERUSALEM As the Obama administration tries to broker a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is a dark truth lurking: force has produ...
AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has agreed to consider reinstating the sex trafficking and forced labor conviction of a man dubbed the "S&M Sveng...
The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
The New York Times takes a look at Citigroup's hiring of Richard F. Hohlt -- a former lobbyist with a controversial past who will now advise the volat...
newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business
Moody's and Standard & Poor's, the two giants of the industry, are still around despite causing the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars by badly r...
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
As the big three credit rating agencies -- Moody's Investor Service, Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings -- prepare to face the scrutiny of the House ...
Financial Times | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
How many financiers do you think ended up in jail after America's Savings and Loans scandals? The answer can be found in a fascinating, old report fro...
bloomberg.com | Lynn Thomasson and Adria Cimino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business
Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Anyone who did what Wall Street analysts advised last March has only losses after the biggest stock market rally in seven decad...
wsj.com | ZACHARY KARABELL | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business
Despite grim predictions, most major U.S. companies have reported positive earnings for the second quarter of 2009. Given how wrong past predictions h...
ft.com | Joanna Chung and Aline van Duyn in New York | Posted 08.22.2009 | Business
Credit rating agencies would face a raft of new disclosure rules and restrictions but would not be forced to overhaul their business models under prop...
nytimes.com | LESLIE WAYNE | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business
SACRAMENTO -- The nation's largest public pension fund has filed suit in California state court in connection with $1 billion in losses that it says w...
Reuters | Jonathan Stempel | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Long attacked for awarding pristine ratings to mortgages and other securities that proved worthless, credit rating agencies were ...
wsj.com | KERRY E. GRACE and KEVIN KINGSBURY | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business
U.S. home prices continued their multiyear tumble in March, according to the S&P Case-Shiller home-price indexes, as the downdraft shows no near-term ...
AP | TIM PARADIS and SARA LEPRO | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up for the year. And for once, it was the housing market that sent stocks soaring. The S&P 500, c...
bloomberg.com | Nick Baker | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Investors should sell U.S. stocks following the steepest rally since the 1930s because earnings are likely to keep weakening, ...
Minyanville | Cory Bortnicker | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business
I'll admit it - a few weeks ago, I bought a $1 scratch ticket. I thought, "Why not?" I ended up winning $7, and proudly announced the news to the Miny...
Ellis Weiner | Posted 03.11.2009 | Politics
We are witnessing, not so much the collapse of the Republican Party, as its slide into insanity. What was the GOP's great accomplishment last week? A show of "unity" enough to block the first stimulus package.
Alan Schram | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business
Throwing taxpayers' good money into that sink hole called the US auto industry will be tantamount to a transfer of wealth from tax payers to GM employees.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics
On Friday, the Huffington Post debunked a series of charges made by conservative activists linking Sen. Barack Obama to the community organizing group...
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.09.2008 | Entertainment
Did you groan when David Letterman told Monica jokes? Do you Tivo The Daily Show ? If your answer is yes, then Strange Bedfellows: How Late Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke may be the book for you.
bespokeinvest.com | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business