Larry Gagosian’s hard-charging art empire is facing new challenges in the downturn, but also opportunity....

Yesterday afternoon I stopped by a bar just outside Casa Grande . Atypically all the guys were glued to the TV. No-- they were not interested in whether James Carville punked Limbaugh and the Republicans. Nor was it Wednesday's dead cat bounce on Wall Street. But they were talking about the presiden...

I fear that President Obama’s first term could be eaten by Citigroup, A.I.G., Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and the whole housing/subprime credit bubble....

What's next? I'll tell you what's next... You're all a bunch of morons! We're all a bunch of freaking morons! The freaking government has conned us. They freaking conned us! For 50 years the government has run around saying,......

Andy Warhol famously said, “In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.� In the age of the Internet, a TV rant can give birth to a “new revolution.� A new Rasmussen poll found that 54 percent of Americans “say no bailouts period.� Conservatives are tapping into that anger...

Click here to view the embedded video. The preceding exchange–especially Dylan Ratigan’s asinine contention that Rick Santelli is “channeling an emotion that everyone in America is feeling�–ties in with what Glenn Greenwald was saying the other day about how the Beltway press corps is stil...

A guy walks into the doctor's office and says, doc, I want liposuction. And the doctor has the guy's medical records and the records show that he has a heart condition and that there's a significant risk he won't make it through liposuction. The doc says, no problem, just give me $5,000. I'd be happ...

Investors are afraid and uncertain these days. Given how hard it is to determine true asset prices, they are being completely rational....

Precious public money should focus on investing in a new generation of innovative companies, not on bailing out the losers....

Yesterday, President Obama’s Press Secretary made the odd choice of commenting on Rick Santelli’s now-famous rant: Gibbs attacked Santelli by name repeatedly, accusing him of not having read the president’s housing plan and mocking the former derivatives trader as not being an effe...