“The Securities and Exchange Commission should be very interested in any financial company that secretly decides a financial product is a loser and then goes out and actively markets that product...

I have not crunched the numbers of Barron’s Big Money Poll — but I am curious if it operates as a reliable contrary indicator. I would need to look at 30 years or so of the data to draw any...

Calculated Risk posted this interesting chart showing the difference between the degree of pressure on Existing vs New Homes. It raises an interesting quandry: On the one hand, new home sales...

With Halloween upon us, we are about to enter the prime US Holiday shopping season. So far, advertising has been subdued. Even without big inventory, we are likely to see significant discounting...

I meant to get to this last week, but the day it came out, I was mostly drunk (my bday), and I somehow missed it: “Despite some tentative signs of recovery, the U.S. housing market remains...