Financial Markets

Leland C. Brendsel is accused of presiding over accounting manipulations and running Freddie Mac in a reckless manner.

Remember that Citigroup, Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

We suggest that by attempting to counter various shocks that are predominantly the product of Fed's own policies, Bernanke's Fed has likely made things much worse as far as real economic fundamentals are concerned.

Sarbanes-Oxley, of course, was just a small step along the yellow brick road that will lead to total rule over private industry, especially in the

David Weild, former vice chairman and executive vice president of The NASDAQ Stoc

Via the IHT (Paulson saying he would consid

For you Fed-heads, the papers from the Fed’s Ja

The old high (in terms of closing prices) in the XAU gold stock index was 168.62 during May of 2006

Alan Greenspan is in the news a lot currently because of the release of his new book. I haven’t read the book.

At least it will give us something to do until we figure out where next to hitch up the engine of inflation. At which point we can once again cast off the hair shirts, put on our gladrags, and throw another wild, exuberant, but ultimately destructive, orgy of high living and hot money — and devil take the hindmost!