Just thought I'd get that out there after watching Ian Bremmer on Charlie Rose (long sweep of history and all that). Clearly, I'm no...

Don't know what might appear here in the days, weeks, or months ahead, but figured I'd see if the old blog still works. It seems to....

Please update your bookmarks, RSS readers, or any other means that you might have used to read what is written here because The Mess That Gr...

It's been exactly five years since publication began at this blog and, if all goes well, this will be the second-to-last post at this lo...

In a bit of irony that is quite appropriate for today, the five-year anniversary of this blog (more on that in an hour or so), it looks like...

Well, it looks like many more billions of dollars will be spent to aid the nation's housing market in what is, in large part, an ultimat...

As compared to activity last year at this time it wasn't much, but recent additions to the gold holdings at the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (N...