Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Economic data, Federal Reserve After testifying before a Senate committee about AIG (NYSE: AIG) last week, the Fed's Ben Bernanke participates in a Council of Foreign Relations event Monday evening. Economic data due to be released this wee...

text or should i say Sextexting. It is a shame and a black eye on us as a people that we have no idea what our children are up to,  with the new technology they can in some cases run circles around us in the cybor world.  We must really get a grip on what's going on in our children's lives.  Leas...

Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time, the '72 Stutz Blackhawk blackjacked the Buickborghini and stuffed it in the trunk, for disposal in a hole in the desert later on (the way so many Blackhawk owne...

Well, it’s taken a while, but the Elverys are finally connected to this thing you people call “the internet�. Simon and I moved to Bayswater on the 28^th March, so it’s only taken the efforts of two very small, not-for-profit companies called Virgin and British Telecom to get us up and runni...

I felt like I was drunk this morning (or was it the judges?) when I read the Advance Release Opinions around noon. For there are not one, not two, but three reversals today (and three dissents!). Goldmine. First up, from the Supreme Court, State v. T.D.M.. This was a 5-2, after an en banc hearing. O...

Another rough week in the markets. The parade of bad news was virtually non-stop. For those traders who think this is a contrary indicator and are wading in buying, best of luck (sold to you). I will tell you that negative sentiment has reached pretty high levels. Not extreme, but definitely high. B...

As you can judge by the title, today’s advance release opinions from the Supreme and Appellate Court seem promising but quickly put me to sleep. That may have nothing to do with the opinions themselves. The Supreme Court issued State v. John M., in which the defendant claimed that the trial co...