The Big Picture

“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:...

Dylan Ratigan hosts the show Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan, which airs weekday mornings from 9 to 11 A.M. ET. Ratigan was most...

Most linkfests involve me discussing what I have read. Today, I am posting a list of what I would be reading, if I was doing my normal...

JP Koning, who did the, The Visual History of the Federal Reserve, has a new chart out: >

The bull is still very much in charge, but it pays to be cautious, as bargains are getting harder to find, says Barron’s Lauren...