To pick up where we left off on Friday, the Fed’s Ben Bernanke announced at its annual Jackson Hole gig that more stimulus money was probably on the way.  His reasoning was that the economic...

This is Part 4 of my interview series with Jeremy Hurewitz, Head of Business Intelligence for Nardello & Co., an international corporate investigations firm based in New York.  Mr. Hurewitz is an expert on Chinese affairs,...

If you need a heart, a brain, but no soul, follow the yellow brick road…to Jackson Hole. Today in his keynote speech in beautiful Wyoming, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will likely discuss whether there...

The funny thing about mind-numbingly large numbers is that after a while, they somehow seem to lose their meaning.  Not that the numbers themselves are meaningless, because they certainly are very important… But when it...

The Chinese banks have arrived in the US.  Today, they are not only lending the US Treasury money by purchasing Treasury Bills, but they’re now also lending American businesses money.  The Chinese banks are here...

Wouldn’t you know it?  According to Reuters, now that Greece is the world’s poster child for fiscal abuse, for fostering a bloated private sector, for unbridled borrowing, and of late, for high unemployment officially hovering...

Today, rather than talk about the state of the economy, the bond market, or any of the other pieces and parts of the dismal science, I’d like to take a moment to remember one man...