If you happen to sit around watching Ukrainian television these days, you might notice a public service announcement on domestic abuse, straight from the Ukrainian Ministry of Family, Youth, and...
Those “Oh my god, the Bush era is over” moments are getting fewer and farther between now as the Obama administration settles in. The easy-to-accomplish changes have happened, and now the hard...
John Kay is a leading British economist and columnist for the Financial Times. His latest book is entitled The Long and the Short of it: A Guide to Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent...
‘Tis the season to be jolly they tell us. Christmas the pseudo Christian/Pagan holiday is today little more than an excuse to shop ourselves into oblivion. Getting together with family and friends...
Alice Schroeder is the author of Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. A MBA graduate of University of Texas at Austin, she had conducted research on Berkshire Hathaway in her capacity...
We Americans have watched our government shell out billions of dollars to keep massive investment banks and insurance companies afloat after their irresponsible actions created the economic crisis in...
Regulation failures have just become a punchline of a truly sick joke these days as the global financial system melts down. Yet the exposure of Bernard Madoff’s multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme...
It seems each time the news turns to the financial sector there is a company or industry that's failing. While economists examine what it means to the economy as whole, ordinary Americans sit in fear...
I have been following the American election keenly and what has most drawn my attention is what has not been said. Obama and McCain are clearly pandering to the middle class in their election bids,...
I’ve heard more or less the same things that you have: the sub-prime mortgage crisis has affected all sorts of markets, leading to all sorts of problems. The Dow has been plummeting. Paul Newman...
