The Naked Dollar

Just took the family on a cruise in Northern Europe and the Baltics. It was all quite beautiful. However the coastlines of Denmark and Germa...

The case I laid out in the previous piece isn't ideological, even though some of you seem to be taking it that way. It's simply fact...

In the salons of the coastal elites, it is a given wisdom that renewable energy sources are “the answer” - the answer to perceived cl...

Good to see Hauser's Law getting more attention in today's WSJ. WAY more people need to know about this. I wrote a piece on it calle...

When I was a private banker in the early 90s, I spent a great deal of time in Switzerland, where I was exposed to the financial ways of Euro...

In March in a post called "Something Strange Afoot in Financial Markets," this blog postulated that banks were not lending money a...

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...