Fed Accepting Comments On Proposed Credit Card Rules
The Fed has proposed sweeping changes for the credit card industry and is now accepting comments. MarketWatch sounded the horn in Your ...

Why Baby Boomers Retirement Won t Hurt the Economy
(Image: AmericanChronicle.com)Russell Beland, a Navy analyst, posted a Washington Post article yesterday that explained why the idea th...

Optimal Control
Is the Federal Reserve too volatile and hair-trigger? Or is the ECB too sluggish? ...

Recession Watch
Greg Robb: U.S. June ISM services falls sharply to 48.2%: WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Nonmanufacturing sectors of the U.S. economy cont...

Paulson: We must improve tools to facilitate the orderly failure of a large complex financial institution
The July 2nd Remarks of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, on the World Economy and Markets before the Chatham House were quite remarkab...

Berkshire Hathaway Posts its Worst First Half in 18 Years
(Image credit: 4mercury.com)This holiday week, bad news is piling up like (__insert fecal reference__). Starbucks is firing people. Con...

Rising Money Supply and the Economy
In early 2006, a friend of mine named Mike wrote to me saying he was worried about the Federal Reserve's decision to stop publishing M3...

WTF? 10 Best Gloom And Doom Sites
This is one odd list: Really? Greg Mankiw -- Doom & Gloom? What the hell is that about?Here's the list, the full commentary is at the...

A fund manager of my acquaintance -- who has been
A fund manager of my acquaintance -- who has been short and is just killing it lately -- writes in:NYT: Stocksbounced around on Tuesd...