My Two Cents

My latest Star Tribune column....

The S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index posts a -4.5% annual decline in the third quarter of 2007. That's a record drop. Here's the...

Henry Paulson was a legendary dealmaker and chief executive of Goldman Sachs, Wall Street's most profitable firm. But he's been a bust as U.S....

Economist Ed Yardeni asks, "Is this the worst housing recession since the Great Depression?" His answer? "Not so far."...

Jim Paulson, chief investment officer at Wells Capital Management, is consistently one of the more thoughtful commentators among Wall Street money...

The Conference Board is awfully cheery about the upcoming holiday shopping season:...

I have a book review of Robert Kuttner's new book, "The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity." Here's...

Bloomberg has a story this morning on Experian, the world's largest credit checking company. Experian's stock fell a whopping 19% in London after...

Charles O. Prince 111, the ousted head of beleaguered Citigroup and, by most measures, a poorly performing chief executive officer, is yet one more...

Another horrifying story about a contaminated toy made in China. Here's the headline story from the Wall Street Journal:...