The Naked Dollar

I live in New York and own property here. People in New York have begun to view their homes not as assets but as potential liabilities, sinc...

Henry Blodget has written an excellent early analysis of the case against Goldman and how weak it looks: http://www.businessinsider.com/he...

Approximately half of New Yorkers don't pay any federal income tax. Here they were, yesterday, April 15th, sunning on the Sheep's Me...

We were all given Ipads at work. I work at a very hip place, you see. My first impressions: I was most curious about whether this could su...

Greece is on the left, Berkeley on the right, both recently. As my brother points out, in the 60s we demonstrated for things like civil righ...

Friends often ask, where do I put my money now? This is a tough one, because it’s hard to get enthusiastic about the major asset class...

I'm not a techno geek, but I do like technology and once in a while a new development sends my heart aflutter. The Microsoft Courier tab...

Sometimes markets do very strange things. When they do, it's always important to figure out why. Right now we have just such a puzzle o...

The front page of the New York Times today reports that social Security will go cash negative this year, years ahead of projection. The iron...

My brother worked at Salomon Brothers back in the John Gutfreund era (as did I, somewhat later). He toiled as a junior guy in the utiliti...