Ratings Agencies 'Key' to Mortgage Crisis Meltdown
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Standard and Poor’s is the first rating agency to face civil fraud charges from the federal government. The Justice Department filed a civil complaint against the company on Monday. It’s the first federal enforcement action against a credit rating firm since the financial crisis almost five years ago.
Political Moneyball on the Campaign Trail
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Romney or Obama? The Stock Market Might Have the Answer
Friday, August 03, 2012
There’s a lot of hand wringing going on over the stability of financial markets after a wild morning of trading this week.
Will the LIBOR Scandal Jump the Atlantic?
Monday, July 09, 2012
It's big news in Europe right now. Monday morning, before a British Parliamentary committee, a top official with the Bank of England is testifying.
Unknown Unknowns and the European Economic Crisis
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Every day, there’s another story that says THIS is the event that what will determine if the single currency experiment that is the euro survives: the Greek parliamentary election; the French presidential election; a bailout of Spain’s banking sector; the interest rates on Spain’s 10-year bond; the second parliamentary election in Greece.
Money Talking: Are Gasoline Prices the Key to the White House?
Friday, June 15, 2012
You remember those headlines a few months back warning of $5 a gallon gas?
This Summer's Biggest Blockbuster May Not Feature Explosions, Aliens or Superheroes
Friday, June 08, 2012
The disasters are coming! The disasters are coming!
The Mayor’s Drinking Problem—and Ours
Friday, June 01, 2012
The joke-writers can take the rest of the week off; Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision to crack down on the sale of oversized sweetened drinks has spawned enough one-liners to fill a week of late-night comedy.
Do Voters Want CEOs for President?
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
It seems that, whatever we say about the attractiveness of a business background, it hasn't been what we've been voting for — at least, not for the top job.
Money Talking: Europe Matters! The G-8 Meeting & the Presidential Election
Monday, May 14, 2012
The G-8 nations will be gathering here in the United States and — Wait! Don’t click over to the cute kittens or the latest pictures of Pippa’s calliypygian charms. This is important stuff! The economic storms still battering Europe, the coming political tensions with a socialist president in France and the continuing chaos in Greece, could all have a major impact on the U.S. economy and — not so incidentally — on the identity of the next American President.
Money Talking: Rupert Murdoch and Echoes of the Washington Post and Watergate
Friday, May 04, 2012
That noise you heard this week from one side of the Atlantic to the other is the outburst of schadenfreude that greeted a declaration from a British parliamentary committee that Rupert Murdoch was "not a fit person" to run a major international company like News Corporation.
Money Talks. We Translate.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
"Money talks, nobody walks," went the old ad for Denison Clothes.
"Money doesn’t talk, it swears," Bob Dylan told us in "It’s Alright Ma."
Well, we’ve got a new spin on that old adage: Money talks -- we translate.