...Old Habits Die Hard From RGE Global Monitor: Global Stocks: 2008 a Year of Historic Losses. 2009 More of the Same? Of the 83 stock markets around the world, just 10 are up year to date as of March 2, 2009, with China leading the way at 14.97%. Venezuela, Colombia, Abu Dhabi, and Israel have also ...

Maybe some smarty pants MBA can help me out—but preferably not one of those guys who pretends to understand those gee whiz Weapons of Financial Destruction known as derivatives. Last week that day finally arrived when you could buy a share of Citigroup at the Dollar Store. And in the pattern that ...

How much longer will Obama and his band of minions and idiots be able to keep blaming the Bush administration for this shit-hole of a situation we are all in? While in the gym just now, I heard MSNBC report that since the day Obama was elected, the market has been in free-fall mode, dropping more th...

Filed under: Forecasts, Good news, Rants and raves, Apple Inc (AAPL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE), Stocks to Buy, Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG), Recession, American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) If there is anything that makes me think we could be close to a market bottom, it is all the peo...

Your "free" market at work for you: Merrill Lynch traders lost hundreds and hundreds of millions of profits on trades at extraordinary risk. Merrill hid word of those trades from its new parent company, Bank of America, and then paid $3.6 billion in bonuses based on performance as of December 8, 200...

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The second personage of the Libertarian Chick Triumvirate is the grand duchess of liberty herself, Ayn Rand—who was a contemporary of fellow founder of modern libertarianism Rose Wilder Lane , whom I featured a couple days ago. The downside of Ayn Rand is the debating society, known as libertarian...

It’s bad out there. How bad is it? It’s so bad that we can’t even afford consumer staples anymore.  That says a lot about this current crap market.  Usually, you know companies like Coca Cola and Gillette (now part of P&G, of course) will do fine. Apparently, not this time ar...

From DShort, via SAI.  Yippie.  Let’s plow another trillion into loser companies (US banks) and industries (US auto).  You’ll “save” a few jobs in the short term, but in the long term, the only jobs you will have created will be soup kitchen servants....

How to Keep Employees Happy During Hard Times It's hard to avoid the bad news these days-the stock market falling towards zero, home prices declining, homelessness rising, our spending power being chipped away. In your business, it's more important than ever to paint an optimistic yet realistic futu...