TradersForum: The Federal Budget for Dummies (a pictorial): I suspect if half of the country were aware of the following we’d …...

By Colin Barr and Serena Ng It’s Woodstock for Capitalism time again. Berkshire Hathaway’s chairman and chief executive, Warren Buffett,...

On April 5th, 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act into law. In my opinion, this may be one of the...

Before retiring on April 30, 2012, Northern Trust’s award-winning Chief Economist Paul L. Kasriel wrote a few commentaries containing his...

Natural gas prices may have finally bottomed out, after hovering around 10-year lows for weeks, said energy magnate T. Boone Pickens.

While in ‘normal’ times the commonly held view is that P/E ratios tend to fall as real interest rates rise, as we recently pointed out...

Yes, derivatives sometimes do deserve special treatment in bankruptcy cases, but there is a growing recognition that the current...

It’s been nearly three years since the recession’s official end, and the economy remains mired somewhere between stall speed and escape...

Not much of a change in this FOMC statement.  The big takeaway is that we’re unlikely to see a change in policy unless the economy beings...

First a comment: Back in February, I argued that The Housing Bottom is Here. My previous house price call was back in December 2010, and...

This morning, a vastly expansive essay by Lew Spellman of the University of Texas in Austin titled “Warren Buffett and the New Calculus...

Countries trade crude oil and oil products back and forth. When all of these transactions are netted out, is the US close to becoming a...

And when the Atlantic Conferences Symposium for Middle Market Finance, the mezzanine industry’s nineteenth annual shindig convenes in New...

Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the “quote”...

Breaking news from Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway that is crossing the wires right now, that he has been diagnosed with non...

Every spring, MBA students spend thousands of hours preparing for one big production: the Follies. Columbia Business School held its big...

Fairholme Capital Management’s Bruce Berkowtiz still likes Bank of America even though the stock hammered his fund’s returns in 2011. The...

No surprises in today’s release of US CPI, which unlike China’s still searing inflation (which is the PBoC’s way to check to Bernanke on...

Via Peter Tchir of TF Market Advisors, There is a lot of talk about IG9 these days.  I think the story has a lot more to do with tranches...