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Toggle bonds are back. Even as the major Wall Street firms and banks come clean on their subprime mortgage loans, investors are snapping up the...

Zvi Bodie is a leading finance professor comfortable in the quantatative world of finance theory and practice. Still, he's strongly committed to...

Another Star Tribune Q & A column....

This is good news. Clive Crook, the Financial Times' Washington columnist, now has a blog. Crook is an astute commentator on the intersection of...

The stock market is struggling today. But its performance in recent months--including October--is remarkable considering the high price of oil, the...

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is a sleepy agency of state insurance regulators. Their track record isn't exactly stellar. But...

This item comes from Ricardo Hausmann, a guest blogger on the site of Professor Dani Rodrik. For anyone intersted in development economics Rodrok's...

I just got this message from Sibson Consulting, the benefits consulting firm. It's more disappointing news on the wage front:...

James Hamilton, economics professor at the University of California, San Diego and blogger, offers up this chart on the high price of oil. I...

It's a slamdunk in the opinion of Wall Street: The Federal Reserve Board will cut the central bank's benchmark interest rate when the Federal Open...