My Two Cents

This is a good commentary on fiscal stimulus by Mike Mandel, chief economist at BW....

I found this something of a chilling summary. The legendary investor Dean LeBaron notes on his website that John Kenneth Galbraith's classic...

I was doing some research into investing, and I came upon these profound insights in the General Theory by John Maynard Keynes. It has been awhile...

For more than three decades, students and their parents funded a college tuition bubble with borrowed money. Two-thirds of college students finish...

No matter how you cut it, today's unemployment report was awful. The headline 18,000 nonfarm payroll increase is bleak enough, but the news is even...

For fun (depending on your definition of fun), I was interviewed on December 31 by Gary Eichten on Minnesota Public Radio's midday program. It's an...

Ed Yardeni's latest newsletter also has a nice summary of the bearish economists on Wall Street. It all comes down to the outlook on consumer...

Economist and money advisor Ed Yardeni has a nice table in his latest newsletter on the buying spree by the sovereign wealth funds. This is only...

Q: My employer will be offering the option to switch all or some of my 401(k) contributions to a Roth 401(k) starting 2008. So the question is; all...

The National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) has a tongue-in-cheek list of resolutions for the New Year. These are resolutions you can...