Investing

By late 2009, as the U.S. dollar flirted with multi-year lows against most foreign currencies, big investment players crowded into… Read More »Dollar Bulls Beware

The world is currently in the eye of an economic hurricane. The leading edge of the storm, which made landfall… Read More »Will the Pause Refresh?

Over the past three or four years a strange phenomenon has developed in the global investment markets. With some exceptions,… Read More »Fear Takes the Wheel

With today’s unexpected decline in December payrolls, the cry for more job-related stimulus will grow even louder. But the sad… Read More »More Government Equals Fewer Jobs

In this week’s much anticipated State of the Union address, President Obama again demonstrated his poor understanding of the fundamental… Read More »The Precarious State of Our Union

Like many football fans around the country, I recently tuned into a heavily promoted 60 Minutes segment on the uncanny… Read More »Congress Sacks Samoan Economy

Watching the world’s leaders stumble their way through the economic crisis, it often feels as if political success and economic… Read More »Poland

It seems that the primary qualification needed by any chairman of the Federal Reserve is the ability to never admit… Read More »Bumbling Ben Bernanke