plus c'est la meme chose.

Having become accustomed to Bernanke's sleigh of hand over these many -- seemingly endless -- months, we had assumed that we had seen it all. This, however, turns out not to be the case at all.

In a nation dominated by the commercial impulse, the anointment of the "king" is very different than the traditional anointment of the royal head of state.

Everyone in the economics, financial, government, and politics businesses has a theory, a viewpoint, a thesis, a position, and policy proposals which derive ostensibly from said theses.

In many matters there does exist a point of no return. Once past this point, there is no turning back. The ability to change is past, and the power of momentum overwhelms all.

The answer to this question must, of necessity, be provisional.

We read endless "analyses" and "forecasts" of future monetary, fiscal, currency, commodity, and financial market trends, all of which, irrespective of their conclusions, share in common a STRIKING DIS

The de facto insolvency of the sovereign state Dubai brings to the fore a question of profound gravity.

We have been struck by two developments over the course of the year with regard to the U.S. equity market.

There are lots of games being played these days: mind games, financial games, forecasting games, economic games, money diversion and re-allocation games, Wall Street games, to cite but a few.