The Big Picture

With gold rallying to a fresh all time high today, let’s again put the performance this year in the S&P 500 in gold (real...

Sept Factory Orders rose .9%, .1% more than expected as transportation orders were revised up from last week’s durable goods report...

Terrific out of context quote that is very applicable to investors and traders: > “Dozens of studies have shown that...

> Last week, PBS “Frontline” produced a story that describes how Bob Rubin, Easy Al, Larry Summers and others prevented Brooksley...

“The Securities and Exchange Commission should be very interested in any financial company that secretly decides a financial...

This seems to take a while to load Goldman Sachs’ secret bets. > Source: How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash Greg...

As the FOMC begins their 2 day meeting, the key focus I believe is whether they leave in the word “exceptionally” in...

Dump the dog, buy the thoroughbred: • Berkshire Buys Burlington Northern in Buffett’s Biggest Takeover (Bloomberg) •...

“We have this very strange situation today in America where we have given banks hundreds of billions of dollars and the president has...

Governor Daniel K. Tarullo At the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business Roundtable: Executive Compensation:...