It was a decade of living dangerously. With interest rates low and lending standards lower, credit became the currency of the decade....
James Altucher | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
I get it. People are angry at Goldman Sachs. But anger, particularly when misplaced, is not going to bring the economy back. Instead, how about we focus on making some money? Let's buy some stocks and enjoy the holidays.
Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books
Things aren't looking good for big booksellers Borders and Barnes & Noble. The AP reports that both chains have posted major losses for this quarter, ...
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.
New York Times | GERALDINE FABRIKANT | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
The 2008 tax filing for the Goldman Sachs Foundation, a copy of which was provided by the firm late Wednesday, provides a glimpse of the legendary tra...
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?
James Altucher | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business
During the course of the past few months, several myths came to bear on the struggling economy that will play out through 2010 to create enormous opportunities in the market and the economy.
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...
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, ...
AP | SARA LEPRO and TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Grim signals about consumer spending ripped through the markets Friday, sending stocks tumbling as investors raced for safe havens. ...
Robert Lenzner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
Main Street Americans are struggling to pay their bills, while Wall Street executives are getting record bonuses. Two Americas; trust me it's more than just a campaign slogan.
Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY and GREG HITT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The drug industry stands to gain in a health-care overhaul by getting tens of millions of newly insured customers, while insurance companies -- especi...
AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
MIAMI — Three men are accused of running a Ponzi scheme that scammed more than $14 million from hundreds of Haitian-American investors in South ...
Larry Gellman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
With investments, mob psychology takes over. People get greedy at the top and afraid at the bottom. At the end of the day, they almost always default in favor of sleeping at night.
James Altucher | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
We live in a world of nightmares. But understanding these worries -- the myriad ways the world could end -- and hedging against them is the way to turn the fear into greed, the nightmare into a dream.
Dan Solin | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
There is an asset allocation that is best for you. Based on the risk of that asset allocation, IFA has a recommended holding period that improves your chances of achieving the expected return.
The Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
On Monday, Fannie Mae jumped 41.7 percent, to $1.70 per share, with nearly 824 million shares bought or sold during regular trading hours. Freddie Mac...
AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — The Dow Jones Industrial Average could get a new name. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that its publisher, Dow Jones & Co., ...
Norb Vonnegut | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
I invest my clients' portfolios by focusing on their cash needs first: renovations to a house, capital calls from other investments, and tuition for example. These discussions are tangible.
Nathan Lewis | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
Goldman has been making its money somewhat like a hedge fund: by buying and selling securities in the secondary market for profit. Why this activity should be government subsidized, I don't know.
Jill Keto | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business
Derivatives are a problem of breathtaking scale that cannot be cleaned up with a quick government fix.
Mike Lux | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business
Progressives are keenly aware of all the political contributions the financial industry makes. But when you are as big as these behemoths, your power stretches far beyond campaign contributions.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business
Veteran San Francisco money manager Gary Wollin expects a "buying panic" -- a veritable flood of new stock purchases -- to kick off any day now and push the equity market appreciably higher.
Ryan Mack | Posted 06.21.2009 | Business
Employees are now burdened with the responsibility of planning for their own retirement since defined contribution plans became the norm.
CNN | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business
According to the latest disclosure from the White House, President Obama is a fan of index-fund investing. See the stocks in his main holding. ...
AP | EILEEN AJ CONNELLY | Posted 12.18.2009 | Business