newVideoPlayer("/drdoom_gawker2.flv", 506, 423,"");Amid the weakest stock-market close in 12 years, Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini decided to scare everyone further, by telling CNBC our depression will last three years, unless maybe we void all mortgages. Roubini reiterated that "most" American financia...

Doom-saying party-animal economist Nouriel Roubini has an op-ed in this Sunday's Washington Post and he's contributing to Forbes—when will he start live-Tweeting the apocalyptic economic collapse he's still predicting? Amusingly, the business school economics professor is now the official nati...

The John McCain campaign showed its true colors this week, and the results are quite disturbing, even by McCain standards.  In 2000, the avid John McCain backer that I was hit the streets and canvassed for a sensible and moderate Republican, one who opposed the troublesome sounding George W. Bu...