I wish I had more free time to write about these things as they come to mind, because it would have been perfectly timed two days ago to discuss how I thought the one good thing this down economy might produce is a restructuring of labor practices. But alas, now I can only recycle old news. ... Read more

I woke up this morning, and the sunrise came up a deep shade of red. In their latest bid to save the market from certain ruin, the Federal Reserve has committed $85 billion dollars over a 2-year period to bail out the crumbling insurance titan , American International Group (AIG). In return f ... Read more

Over the weekend, in a move led by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Housing Finance Agency head James Lockhart, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were seized by the Federal government and its board ousted, you can read about it in pretty much every news outlet, including the Wall Street Jour ... Read more

They say the most dangerous enemy is the one you don't know, but as our legislators have proven to us in the last few months, the most dangerous is in fact the one you've created. Year over year inflation, as reported by the New York times on Thursday , has skyrocketed at a rate not seen sinc ... Read more

So, you don't fancy yourself a "serious" market trader. Or maybe you just don't have the attention span for the technical side of life. Here's a reprieve from it all, stories that are shaking the tech world right now with a financial impact soon to come, or way down the line. You probab ... Read more