Dubai Completes 110 Story Middle Finger!
Visible from space, Dubai has completed construction of the World's largest structure, the 110 story "Burj Dubai Middle Finger Tower."
Visible from space, Dubai has completed construction of the World's largest structure, the 110 story "Burj Dubai Middle Finger Tower."
AP | Posted 11.27.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Gold prices fell for the first time in 10 days and oil slid as jitters over debt problems in the Middle Eastern city of Dubai drove t...
Roben Farzad and Tara Kalwarski | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
The U.S. economy is coping with alarmingly high double-digit unemployment, a widening commercial real estate bust, and over-indebted consumers. Few th...
Dan Solin | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business
Recently, "Dr. Doom" warned about a coming market correction. Should investors rely on Professor Roubini's crystal ball?
James Altucher | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
At the end of the day, don't succumb to populist panic. Capitalism works and is on its way to a recovery if we just sit back and let it happen.
The Washington Post | Martha C. White | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business
With a close over 10,270 on Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average had its best showing of 2009. Like the day a few weeks earlier when it broke the ...
Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.12.2009 | Books
Buffett had indeed learned through experience that "when in doubt keep holding"; he said, "I've made most of my money sitting on my ass."
Ann Pettifor | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
Today -- as global trade lies dead, as unemployment rises, as wages and incomes plummet, as US consumption and investment falls -- share prices zoom upwards and commodity prices rock.
Tom Gregory | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy
L'Osservatore Romano is reporting that Goldman Sachs is indeed Doing God's work, and His Former Holiness Joseph Ratzinger has confirmed the unsolicited hostile takeover.
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?
David A. Love | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Often, people will look at a high-profile example of corruption, and conclude that the egregious act is an exception to the rule. In reality, it might be the tip of the iceberg.
Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books
Buffett would always love reading newspapers, but his investing was tightly focused on simple businesses that were as close to immortal as possible. Newspapers no longer qualified.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
Go figure this crazy market following another bout of schizophrenia. First came terrific Thursday, then wicked Friday, as big money was made and even bigger money was lost.
Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
And the winner is... Ford Motors. Of all of the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, Ford has shown the biggest leap in value since Presiden...
Diane Francis | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
CEO Prem Watsa discusess how Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. of Toronto has not only weathered the greatest financial storm since the Depression, but has profited mightily.
Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
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, ...
Robert Lenzner | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business
What can an investor do? For advice, I sat down with Marc Harris of RBC, one of the few large banks that maneuvered a clear course through the economic turmoil.
Ross Hyzer | Posted 10.27.2009 | Comedy
At first, it looked like the recession was going to be a disaster, but now it's is over, so in the end, all's well that ends well. Right?
Loral Langemeier | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
I love Halloween. how often do you get to say "Boo!" without looking the fool? Oh, but wait a minute. If you're the Dow Jones Index, you get to say "Boo! I fooled you" often.
Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
When it is easy to make money just by buying a house and waiting, there is not much incentive to look deeper into yourself -- to find out what you were born to give, what your unique talents are.
Henry Blodget | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
There's a saying in poker: If you don't know who the patsy is at the table, it's you. Next time you feel like bellying up to the Wall Street poker table, therefore, ask yourself again who the sucker is.
Stephanie Adamowicz | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York
When the Dow closed above 10,000 points last week and the Frieze art fair opened in London, art market observers were presented with an opportune time to take stock.
Roll Call | Alex Knott | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
The recent surge on Wall Street has created a windfall for some Congressional campaigns that invested their political contributions in the stock marke...
Henry Blodget | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
Jim Cramer's stock "call of a lifetime" came 53 weeks ago, on October 6, 2008. But was it really so wise?
Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
The top 1 percent owns more wealth than the bottom 90 percent. CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
Tom Gregory | Posted 11.29.2009 | Comedy