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Wait and watch as the numbers on just how far consumers and businesses cut back spending show up in Q2 & Q3 data. Be prepared for a nasty downward spiral. All of this will only lead to more tension as decreasing state revenues prompt local units of government to hike fees, taxes or...

Technology surprises me because that's one area that should hold up a little better in a recession, as companies seek out more technology to increase productivity and cut costs.

I posted this comment to a member here in response to a PM he sent me and think the reasoning is sound, even if it's simplistic (sometimes, the more simplistic, the better). Please tell me if any of you disagree with the main gist of the point I'm making. I'd like to know if there's a logical...

Because the structure of compensation is corrupted. If fund managers do poorly, they are guaranteed a set amount (a floor). If fund managers do well, they are guaranteed a floor + a disproportionate amount that is quite inefficient for the investor. The best book I've read on how fees...

States Turning to Last Resorts in Budget Crisis By ABBY GOODNOUGH 32 minutes ago With state revenues in a free fall, governors and legislatures are approving program cuts, layoffs and, to a smaller degree, tax increases that were previously unthinkable...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aLaIb.6J8xFc Dollar Forecast Disarray Leading to Higher Volatility (Update1) Share | Email | Print | A A A By Matthew Brown and Oliver Biggadike STORY TO FOLLOW. Last Updated: June 21, 2009 21:20 EDT

Government is creating wealth in China - they're picking winners and losers every day. The facts are the facts.

On one hand, I despise the fact that Obama knowingly has expanded the preferential treatment of the Wall Street scum that contributed greatly (along with others, who aren't getting bailed out, however) to the crisis we're in the thick of. On the other hand, yes, Kim is irrational, not much is...

I hate golf. I was out on the boat earlier today and had a few cold ones with a couple of friends, but I'm still in a bad mood. I don't like what I see in the real world. Things have changed for the far worse.

Bloomberg said insider selling is at a two year high. If that's correct, how is that not "out of the ordinary?"

•Insiders Exit U.S. Stocks at Fastest Pace in Two Years as Market Rallies Insiders Exit Shares at Fastest Pace in 2 Years as Market Rises Share | Email | Print | A A A By Lynn Thomasson and Michael Tsang STORY TO FOLLOW. Last Updated: June 21, 2009 19:00 EDT...

The future is bleak. America's failure to keep up in education, R&D, infrastructure and transportation, and our propensity to consume more than we produce, has put is in a precarious position. The future will look like an inverted pyramid, with thin ranks of workers, making far less than...

Report: NKorea ship suspected of carrying missiles By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea -- A U.S. Navy destroyer is tailing a North Korean ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons toward Myanmar in what could be the first test of new U.N. sanctions against the...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/world/asia/22korea.html?_r=1&hp U.S. Destroyer Shadows North Korean Ship By CHOE SANG-HUN Published: June 21, 2009 SEOUL — A North Korean cargo ship shadowed by a United States Navy destroyer was reportedly steaming toward Myanmar on Sunday, posing...

Rebuilding confidence is actually destructive if its built on a bed of lies or fabrications. The last thing American Consumers or Businesses need to do is get back into leveraged positions of indebtedness, assuming the capital were even available to them, if they can't make productive use of...

Convertibility, I'm not sure which numbers are correct, but the median value of a home in the U.S. as of August, 2007, was $220,000. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/business/26housing.html I appreciate your citing median, rather than mean, housing prices, as it's much more accurate...

jficquette is the leader of that gang, let me tell you.

Ganegrene shoots? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ayc5BDPO_GGs GE Vice Chair Rice Sees No ‘Green Shoots’ in Orders (Update3) Share | Email | Print | A A A By Steve Matthews June 19 (Bloomberg) -- General Electric Co. Vice Chairman John Rice said he isn’t...

Government always takes the path of least resistance, no matter how damaging the long term effects. Bernanke & Crew have essentially taken the Greenspan playbook and put just a mild spin on it, in the hopes of getting reflation and consumers to spend money on shit they don't need again...

Every time I try, you guys remind me about him. :p And his entourage of Benny Bernanke & Timmy Geithner, too.