My Two Cents

Another good picture from dshort.com .

This chart put the current market in perspective. Thanks to Calculated Risk and dshort.com. .

I'm catching up on my reading, and I just looked at the recent Census Bureau numbers on new residential sales. Can this be right? The median new...

This picture powerfully illustrates the situation we confront. It comes from Paul Krugman's blog on the New York Times.

Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders is out. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, had its worst year since the premier stock picker took it...

Rent and ownership are competing markets. Looking at the rent to price ratio is a quick way of judging whether homes are overvalued or not....

Barry Ritzholz at The Big Picture has this chart comparing the current bear market in stocks to previous plunges, 1929 to 2009....

Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill was right--very right. What a missed opportunity. We wouldn't be in the fiscal mess we're in if O'Neill had won the...

There are a lot of factors accounting for the borrowing boom--and bust....

I got this question the other day: "We just hit the bear market low that we hit on Nov. 20. Is this the bottom? Is now the time to jump into the...