…handed bottomless bowls of alphabet soup – the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP) and the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) – while politicians dithered…

…tend to move the economy, but that effect may be short lived in the fickle world of modern stock market trading.) But has that relationship changed over time? Here’s a…

…as a ‘gift’ for good fiscal behavior. (1) Moral hazard is an important issue in Europe, and Greece has only begun its austerity program. We’ll need confirmation that they are…

…Made in Japan: What Is Country Exporting? – “The crisis in Japan triggered by the March 11 earthquake hasn’t just disrupted domestic production, but also poses problems to trading partners…

…manufacturing, ranching, finance and commodities trading businesses. (I got those listings from Wikipedia.) Scalia and Thomas attended and spoke at Koch-sponsored four-day law conferences at luxury resorts. Their expenses were…

…those assets trading hands maybe twelve times a year, that’s a lot of sloshing. It’s no wonder the sailboat gets knocked over periodically. Now imagine that a whole bunch of…

…facts which almost no one knows) then one should buy and hold the market portfolio. This means low trading volume and low fees. This means you buy equal amounts of…

…currencies. If they are trading pieces of paper for pieces of paper, then they have to hold money to do that and they have to keep people from stealing it….

…The commissioners both said the U.S. free market system is at a disadvantage in our trading relationship with China, and that the government needs to take action to protect American…

…republic, a land full of cronyism, wink and nod business deals, insider trading, nepotism, feather your own nest and forget about the next guy, take all you can as quickly…