Think of this as Volume 12, Number 8 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. As bad as financial reporters, analysts and experts were when the market was going up they are worse when it's going down. Let's start with what we know. Money is a store of value but trillions ...

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WHAT EXACTLY IS THE APPROPRIATE, "TACTFUL" ETIQUETTE FOR REPORTING THE RAPE OF FAMILIES' EARNED INCOME CREDITS AND STIMULUS REBATE REFUNDS?  HOW DOES ONE REPORT THE VULGAR CRIME OF ELDER ABUSE WITHOUT OFFENDING ANYONE? Dear Zen, I respect you and your work here on Blog Talk Radio and that is why I ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 23 -- Russia is seeking the ouster of a senior U.N. corruption investigator and his team of specialists on white-collar crimes after they conducted hard-hitting probes into one of its diplomats and another Russian national, according to U.S. officials and U.N. documents....

NEW YORK, Dec. 23 -- Russia is seeking the ouster of a senior U.N. corruption investigator and his team of specialists on white-collar crimes after they conducted hard-hitting probes into one of its diplomats and another Russian national, according to U.S. officials and U.N. documents....

Image via Wikipedia By Joseph Stiglitz, Vanity Fair We are at a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future economic policy is a debate over history -- here are the major mistakes that got us here. There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and t...

Well this is terribly disappointing! After a veritable two weeks of post-election speculation about our future Secretary of the Treasury, with an endless parade of sexist buffoons and kindly forest-giants to choose from, Barack Obama goes for some dude named Tim Geithner who appears to be of normal ...

Image by chantal foster via Flickr Meanwhile, even some on Wall Street see "Great Depression 2" coming in 2011. The Nation The more details emerge, the clearer it becomes that Washington's handling of the Wall Street bailout is not merely incompetent. It is borderline criminal. Then there is the nea...

On September 17, while the financial world was still reeling from the collapse of several Wall Street institutions, a next day air envelope arrived at my house. I probably should have opened it and read its contents before this weekend, because it has a direct bearing on the present crisis. Inside I...