Today’s Wall Street Journal has an excellent 4,000-word article on the weekend that Wall Street “died.” Personally, I think that’s a bit strong. A certain crucial aspect of Wall Street is no more, but Wall Street is far from dead. The other issue I have with the article is that it sees the ...

Click for interactive graphic > courtesy of WSJ > Source : The Weekend That Wall Street Died SUSANNE CRAIG, JEFFREY MCCRACKEN, AARON LUCCHETTI and KATE KELLY WSJ, DECEMBER 29, 2008 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051066413538349.html

Over the past weekend, The Wall Street Journal did an excellent piece on the events of mid-September, 2008. Thanks to the folks at The Cleveland Plain Dealer , you can now read about The Weekend Wall Street Died . It is compelling reading, if you're into the current recession or ...

Flying around the Internet and blogosphere is the Wall Street Journal's* ridiculous feature of Dr. Igor Panarin's prediction for the United States (interestingly enough, Bloomberg posted the same story to less fanfare a month ago): Mass immigration, economic decline, and moral ...

Sounds like everyone is getting a bit more practical and conservative with their fashion in the economic downturn. Does this mean we can't make fun of lame CEOs trying to look stylish anymore? Just wanted to give you the heads up on this, for all those out there getting ready to redeem some ...

TOP STORIES Kuwait cancels $17 billion deal with Dow Chemical - AP Pound hits new low against euro - BBC World Economy in 2009: Three priorities for recovery - Financial Times The Weekend That Wall Street Died($) - Wall Street Journal With gas falling, trucks come back - CNN/Money The ...

The New Reality of Wall Street by Donald Coxe (Author) Average Customer Review: Release Date: November 24, 2008 Buy new: $18.95 27 used & new from $2.81 (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Hot New Releases in Business & Investing > Investing > Stocks list for authoritative ...

There is a piece I regard as truly odd in the Wall Street Journal tonight. Either much of what I have read about investment bank bankruptcies is wrong, or something peculiar is at what used to be the house of Lehman. A Wall Street Journal article, " Lehman's Chaotic Bankruptcy Filing ...

The New Reality of Wall Street by Donald Coxe (Author) Average Customer Review: Release Date: November 24, 2008 Buy new: $18.95 27 used & new from $2.81 (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Hot New Releases in Business & Investing > Investing > Stocks list for authoritative ...

The New Reality of Wall Street by Donald Coxe (Author) Average Customer Review: Release Date: November 24, 2008 Buy new: $18.95 27 used & new from $2.81 (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Hot New Releases in Business & Investing > Investing > Stocks list for authoritative ...

The New Reality of Wall Street by Donald Coxe (Author) Average Customer Review: Release Date: November 24, 2008 Buy new: $18.95 27 used & new from $2.81 (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Hot New Releases in Business & Investing > Investing > Stocks list for authoritative ...

Wall Street Warriors still might not have a home in the US, and millions of Russian died trying to prevent the spread of capitalism/democracy into their country, but now I’m seeing this purely... Visit TimothySykes.com to read full article with comments

It's a slow week on Wall Street. But after the year we've had (for a great read, check out Markets Gone Wild: 10 Craziest Days on Wall Street in 2008 ), that's a welcome change. However, there are some individual stories worth noting. One in particular that caught my eye was the action in ...

Caught this over at Planetizen : "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," Steven Chu, the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, told the Wall Street Journal in September . From the Wall Street Journal Article: In a sign of one ...

A cardboard cut-out of a Santa Claus at the German stock exchange in Frankfurt. Photo: Reuters With the markets winding up early for the Christmas holiday, we thought this poem was a fitting way to close out Wall Street’s grueling year. The verse is by Vincent Indelicato, a freelance ...

One thing that we would really like to see more of here in the United States is protests over economic and market conditions. We aren't quite sure why Wall Street types don't take to well... Wall Street after a 400 point drop in the Dow and start blowing their horns in unison. For our money, ...

MassMutual became the latest big investor to admit losing money because of Bernard Madoff. According to Wall Street Journal , the company's Tremont Financial Group lost $3 billion -- more than half of its assets -- because of Madoff's $50 billion scam. Then there's the problem of disclosure. ...

This is a continuation of my post from yesterday on a book published in 1887 called "Twenty Eight Years In Wall Street," written by a gentlemen called Henry Clews. He wrote an interesting section on speculation that I wanted to share: "Speculation for a fall in prices is based upon the ...

I recently came across a book published in 1887 called "Twenty Eight Years In Wall Street," written by a gentlemen called Henry Clews. He wrote an interesting section on speculation. "Speculation is a method now adopted for adjusting differences of opinion as to future values, whether of ...

Sigh, another day, another Wall Street scandal. This one is smaller and related to insider trading, but you should read the whole thing to see how stupid and brazen it was -- including the connection to a Playboy Playmate : The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged seven ...