Marketplace Scratch Pad

Good morning. A few items to start the day; a couple of them are funny. Others, not so much:...

Ho, ho, ho. The Senate will most likely stuff a health care bill down the chimney by Christmas. Is it a gift to the American people? Or a bag of...

With 10 days to go in the "aughts" decade, it's pretty much official. This has been the worst calendar decade for the US stock market. Ever. And...

Good morning. Hope you had a good weekend. Here are a few things to get the week started:...

Some people in Congress want to build more commercial real estate. Go ahead, read that sentence again. A new Senate bill offers a strategy for...

And that's a good thing. Banks are taking it easy on the holiday events this year. Many of them aren't even remotely touching anything that...

This is sort of a follow-up to yesterday's discussion about "creative destruction" -- new technologies replacing old ones. You know those energy...

The latest craze in China is online farming games. This is no joke. These games are so popular and addictive that the Chinese government had to...

Happy Friday. Here's what I've been reading and viewing so far:...

A once-proud newspaper has been reduced to begging for donations. The Miami Herald ...