After the Goldman Sachs fraud case was brought to light today in the news, the market sold off in extremely heavy volume. For those who want to understand exactly what the Goldman case is all about, I recommend watching this afternoon’s Tech Ticker clip with my favorite financial blogger Barry Ritholtz.
This is exactly the time [...]

Lately there have been a lot of references to “stagflation” when describing the current economic outlook. Webster’s defines stagflation as: an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity. In other words, there are a lot of people who are out of work but prices are increasing [...]

Here are two question I get all the time:
“When will this horrible bear market end?” and “When will a new bull market begin?”.
To set the record straight, I will now reveal exactly when these two events will occur. But before I do I must first explain how the stock market works.
The markets are driven by three economic [...]