Apr 09 Watch Private Investors Put Money on Decreasing Teen Recidivism Rate Private Investors Put Money on Decreasing Teen Recidivism Rate… Continue watching
Dec 13 Watch News Wrap: Susan Rice Withdraws From Consideration for Secretary of State News Wrap: Susan Rice Withdraws From Consideration for Secretary of State… Continue watching
Sep 13 Watch Federal Reserve Launches Aggressive Stimulus Program to Move Economy Forward Federal Reserve Launches Aggressive Stimulus Program to Move Economy Forward… Continue watching
Sep 13 Watch Federal Reserve Launches Aggressive Stimulus Program to Move Economy Forward Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke announced a third round of quantitative easing. Continue watching
Nov 24 European Bond Scare: Germany Edition By Paul Solman Trader at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany. Photo by Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images. The U.S. markets lie as still today as the birds on America's platters, but the same cannot be said for fluttering Europe, or anywhere else in the… Continue reading
Aug 01 Watch Default by Debt Ceiling? ‘Complete Nonsense’ Paul Solman reports on how the stock market was reacting to news of the debt ceiling deal… Continue watching
Apr 20 What Happens to Us Codgers if the Debt Limit Isn’t Raised? By Elizabeth Shell We reported last week on the fear and trembling of bond vigilantism, real or imagined -- that the bond market would punish the country for profligacy by raising the interest it demanded to lend us money, thus making everything… Continue reading
Apr 20 What Happens to Us Codgers if the Debt Limit Isn’t Raised? By Paul Solman We reported last week on the fear and trembling of bond vigilantism, real or imagined -- that the bond market would punish the country for profligacy by raising the interest it demanded to lend us money, thus making everything… Continue reading
Apr 19 S&P’s Dire Warning: Of Any Significance At All? Call me a contrarian -- or just your garden-variety journalist/skeptic -- but when I read the much-ballyhooed Standard & Poor's announcement yesterday, I shook my shiny head. "Because the U.S. has, relative to its AAA peers, what we consider… Continue reading
Nov 19 Watch Bernanke Looks to Turn Tables on Critics of Fed’s $600 Billion Move Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, defending the Fed's $600 billion stimulus and calling on China and other fast-growing economies not to gain an unfair market advantage by devaluing their currencies. Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching