Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Feb 23 – Mar 1, 2009) Battle-weary investors remained skeptical of a banking quick fix and endured more grim economic fodder during the past week, causing US stocks to hit their lowest level since 1997. After the worst January (-8.8%) on reco...

Boy am I mad! It was brought to my attention last night that Jim Cramer has stolen my plan, which I called " The 3% Mortgage Solution " in my Feb 9th column, and simply added a point to it and claimed it as his own on national TV . I'm not sure how to feel about that - I'll be glad if the plan is us...

Another disappointing week! Once again it was only what we expected so no big deal as we went into last weekend ready for the bear if the stimulus plan failed to give us a boost. Even so, finishing back near the November lows is downright depressing. On Friday, the 6th I said the energy sector could...

There are already signs that the next 12 months will not be so bleak says Jim O'Neill....

Filed under: Forecasts, Good news, Employees, Economic data These days, most investors, executives, and economists know that there's no shortage of unpleasant news regarding the U.S. economy. Moreover, some days it's hard to find those bright spots that we know exist amid the the snow storm of the r...

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Jan 26 – Feb 1, 2009) “Words from the Wise” this week comes to you in a shortened format as pressure from my “day job” precludes me from doing my customary commentary. However, a full dose of excerpts from interesting ...

By John Ross Crooks, Currency Analyst www.worldcurrencywatch.com Over the next six to eight months, our core trading strategy is based on three key ideas: 1.    Global demand will continue to deteriorate2.    China will surprise on the downside3.    Commodities prices will sink back to thei...

Filed under: Politics, Recession, Financial Crisis One of the benefits, when you are a child of privilege growing up in or near the center of civilization, the capital of the world, is that you receive opportunities to experience the extraordinary. For example, in addition to having two attentive pa...

9.50am: The transport minister Geoff Hoon is not due to announce until lunchtime whether the government will approve a third runway at Heathrow, but the media is taking it as a done deal. A new electrified high speed rail line linking Heathrow, London and Birmingham will be included in the package a...

Sometimes, Blog Posts Write Themselves: Cleaning up a hard drive of old files, I ran across these two articles from the middle of last year. First, the WSJ, arbiter of business sanity and purveyor of a positive meme whenever one is to be found, on 28 July 2007—nine months after the general sup...