My Two Cents

Although measuring teenage employment during the months when school is out, these numbers from the Cleveland Fed highlight a depressing story when...

I got a call from a financial advisor this morning, and he had seen a calculation that with zero percent interest financing and all the price cuts...

Two weeks ago, I played MC at a day long conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Among the talks was a look at returns to schooling...

Hardly anyone disagrees with this statement: The nation's tax system is a mess. The U.S. tax code is riddled with far too many deductions, credits,...

The Little Book Big Priofits series is terrific. The books are short, well-written by Wall Street luminaries, and deal with important investment...

Want to silence a group of colleagues at work or friends at dinner? Heap praise on speculators--and the market bubbles they help create....

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com is out with his latest forecast. It's gloomy. He is well worth following:...

The jump in the unemployment rate from 5% to 5.5% is bad news. So is the sickening $12 spike in oil prices....

It's easy to get depressed about the economy with oil prices at nosebleed levels, food at the grocery store increasingly expensive and home prices...

Sorry I have been absent for awhile. But I have several thoughts to blog about over the coming week. To start off, here are some musing aboyt...