Get ready: The ugly May jobs report will revive talk of another recession. Don't believe it. Yet. The "R" word got dropped all over Twitter within ...
Thing One: This Is A Call: Hello, everyone. Let us see what is "new" in the "news" today. Oh, well, looky here, Europe is still a disaster! But then y...
While everybody's rightly worried about Spain as the next likely victim of the European debt crisis, nobody's thinking much about Germany. It could be...
Thing One: Another Day At The Office For The ECB: If it's Wednesday, it must be time to ignore the flailing Spanish banking sector. The European Ce...
If you could rely on anything in the past couple of years, it is that Greece is always going broke. Now it turns out that Greece is going broke faster...
Meet the Justice League of bank regulation. In a world ruled by powerful bankers, where politicians and regulators are compromised and weak, only a...
CNBC sports reporter Darren Rovell is not exactly beloved by the Internet, maybe for his comments about the sad decline in the quality of Playboy Play...
Thing One: Be Gentle, Ben: The stock market is a big, dumb drug addict. If you still needed proof, all you had to do was sit back and watch the mar...
Here's something you don't see every day: A Republican-appointed Federal Reserve Chairman telling Congress to spend more money. Well, not exactly -...
Thing One: Help! Spain Needs Somebody: Seven And A Half Things is all about self-help, but this is ridiculous. Spain, which has warned that it is v...
By now you've probably heard about this awful gaffe President Obama made, calling the private sector "fine." Except from the old-fashioned standpoint ...
It was only a matter of time before it happened: Alan Greenspan has come to the defense of JPMorgan Chase. Yes, the Alan Greenspan, the same man who helped make it possible for banks like JPMorgan to get big enough to annihilate the financial system.
While European soccer players were expertly kicking the ball down the field this weekend in the Euro 2012 tournament, European finance ministers were ...
Thing One: Relief Rally: Global financial markets, having been pulled back from the abyss over the weekend, are throwing a little victory celebration ...
It's official: Absolutely nobody on Wall Street cares about JPMorgan Chase losing $30 billion. That is the clear message of an exhaustively reporte...
Thing One: Bail Fail: One hundred and twenty-five billion dollars just doesn't go as far as it used to. Europe's 100-billion-euro ($125 billion) pr...
Hello, American reader. We know there are things in this world you care very deeply about: The NBA finals, the "True Blood" premiere, Apple's shiny ne...
Thing One: Bond Market Warning: James Carville once said he wanted to be reincarnated as the bond market because of the power it had. The bond market ...
There were lots of remarkable questions during Jamie Dimon's Senate Banking Committee hearing -- remarkable mainly for how easy people were on the hea...
Thing One: Unlucky Seven: Seven is an unlucky number for Spain, and for the rest of the world. The yield on Spanish 10-year bonds nearly hit 7 perc...
Thing One: Zombie Weekend: One reliable feature of the global financial crisis-zombie apocalypse we've been enduring for the past four years is that e...
The conviction of Rajat Gupta on insider trading charges is a real score for government prosecutors -- maybe the biggest such conviction in history. ...
Thing One: Crisis Deferred: Well, we were wrong: Greece did not actually ruin your weekend. They'll just continue to ruin your next several weekdays, ...
Hallelujah, the nuclear winter left behind by the devastating Facebook IPO is finally over! OK, it's not over, really. But there are green shoots,...
Thing One: Get It Together: The eurozone is like a bad marriage that has to stay together for the sake of the children. In this case, the children are...
