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Caroline Baum: Federal Reserve handicaps race of its own making
Ed Koch, the late mayor of New York City, used to stop residents on the street and ask, "How am I doing?" With next month marking the four-year anniversary of the end of the 2007-2009 recession, the longest and deepest since the Great Depression, it...Tags: Federal Reserve, New York City, Money and Monetary Policy, Real Estate, Services and Shopping
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MarksJarvis: Nearing record high, market sees growing disconnect with tepid economy
Corporate earnings reports have pacified investors this week after a bout of selling followed renewed concerns about a global slowdown last week. It's not that companies have provided dazzling first-quarter results. Many are continuing to make their...Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Earnings, Aerospace Manufacturing, Federal Reserve, Stock Activities
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FBI, SEC look into false AP tweet that whipsawed the Dow
Tribune staff reportThe FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a hack attack on the Associated Press Twitter account Tuesday that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average reeling. The Dow dropped 144 and recovered it in minutes a little after 1 p.m. when a...Tags: White House, Jay Carney, Barack Obama, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Media Industry
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Fake AP tweet latest hacking claimed by pro-Assad 'army'
A fake tweet that claimed President Obama had been injured after explosions went off at the White House was quickly debunked by the Associated Press, which said its Twitter account had been hacked. But a band of hackers who support Syrian President...Tags: Computer Crime, LinkedIn Corp., Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, National Government
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Associated Press' Twitter hacked, fake tweet sends stocks plunging
The Associated Press' main Twitter account was taken over Tuesday by hackers who sent out a fake tweet saying two explosions had gone off at the White House, injuring President Obama. Within minutes, the real AP used other accounts at its disposal to...
Tags: White House, News Agency, Media Industry, The Associated Press, Social Media
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Hackers compromise AP Twitter account
LONDON (AP) — Hackers compromised Twitter accounts of The Associated Press on Tuesday, sending out an erroneous tweet about an attack at the White House. The tweet said that there had been two explosions at the White House and President Barack...Tags: White House, Barack Obama, Media Industry, The Associated Press, Social Media
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Why there's a bull market for investors and a bear market for workers
Last Friday, the Labor Department reported that 236,000 new jobs were created in February. That's good news -- but not nearly good enough. Even if this rate were to continue, which seems unlikely, the United States wouldn't be back to pre-recession levels...
Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Unemployment Benefits, Global Expansion, Career and Workplace, Stock Market
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Our View: Keep an eye on the stock market numbers
The stock market is at a record high. Other economic indicators, including a slowly decreasing unemployment rate, a rebound in the housing market and ever-increasing consumer confidence, indicate that our country is continuing to recover from a massive...Tags: Economic Indicator, Federal Reserve, Consumer Confidence, Money and Monetary Policy, Economy, Business and Finance
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Dow is up: Happy days here again?
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith once observed that there are two kinds of market forecasters, those who don't know and those who don't know they don't know. That is well illustrated by the current disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street, as the...Tags: Earnings, Federal Reserve, Investments, Barack Obama, Money and Monetary Policy
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American reaction to budget cut hype? Yawn.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is pulling out all the stops to warn just what could happen if automatic budget cuts kick in. Americans are reacting with a collective yawn. They know the drill: Obama raises the alarm, Democrats and...
Tags: Executive Branch, Politics, Janet Napolitano, Elections, White House
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Gatsby, Galbraith and the myth of Coolidge's crash
What's next after the Oscars? More Gatsby, of course. "The Great Gatsby," featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and coming in May, will be the fourth, or by some counts the fifth or sixth, movie version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel about the illusion created by...Tags: Executive Branch, Federal Reserve, Money and Monetary Policy, Academy Awards, F. Scott Fitzgerald
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More South Floridians getting interested in a booming stock market
Sun SentinelSouth Florida financial planners fielded calls Friday as more Floridians became interested in investing in a rising stock market -- just as the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 14000 for the first time since 2007. The interest has been building with the...Tags: Palm Beach County, Deerfield Beach, Stock Market
May 17, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
Apr 24, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Mar 13, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 7, 2013
|Story| Imperial Valley Press Online
Mar 6, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 28, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Feb 27, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Feb 1, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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