Author: Zandar1

Well, another disastrous week on Wall Street in the books.  The Dow lost 500+ points this week, giving back most of the gains from the rate cut rally and almost back to the doom and gloom sub-12,000 level, which brings us...

With the near coronation of McCain and the near deadlock between Hillary and Obama, I’ve been reminded of the scene in the crappy (but mildly amusing) Steve Martin remake of Sgt. Bilko where Ernie Bilko explains how he...

And the Dow continues to tank, and the economy continues to worsen, and the people all keep acting like this bad news  is a huge surprise of some sort. Stocks tanked Tuesday, after a report showing a big slowdown in the...

With the biggest primary contests in 2008 coming up in 48 hours or so, with the potential to decide who we’ll have to put up with for the next ten months so that we can put up with them for four years, the Village is still...

Last month’s near panic in the markets was justifiable.  But the game plan in February is that “everything’s fine.”  The financial media’s mask slipped in January due to shock.  In...