Lululemon's Stock and the 'Athleisure' Craze
More and more people seem to be wearing athletic wear. Even if they never break a sweat.
Midday Market Report: 3/11/16
GM gets involved with self-driving cars
Twitter's Executive Exodus Is Self-Inflicted
The social media company’s retention issues are a result of systemic leadership problems, not a Silicon Valley talent war or plummeting stock price.
Ways to Maximize Your Social Security Payout
For those who think your Social Security benefit comes free and clear, think again. For a good amount of baby boomers, Uncle Sam will most likely have his hand out when it comes time to pay your taxes.
Trump vs. GOP Establishment: What Would Ronald Reagan Say?
Opinion: Everyone in the Republican Party incessantly evokes the name of Ronald Reagan, but are such comparisons even relevant today?
Midday Market Report: 3/10/16
Dollar General beats expectations
How Company Culture Can Grow Profits
The modern consumer not only values what went into the product they consume, they now have the ability to access it through multiple digital social channels, effectively making every employee an ambassador or the company.
Rising Interest Rates Create More Losers Than Winners
The FOMC is creating a divide among the nation's savers and debtors with the first interest rate hike in nearly a decade.
Goldman Sachs’ Stock Picks if Rates Rise
Goldman Sachs has produced a list of nearly five dozen stocks that will rise or fall when the Federal Reserve finally raises rates.
'Flexibility' New Fed Buzzword
For months the Fed used the word ‘patience’ to describe its stance toward a rate hike. Having lost ‘patience’ in March, the new buzzword is ‘flexible.’ As used by the Fed, the terms are essentially synonymous.
Financial Crisis Lessons Ignored
Have our lawmakers learned nothing from history?
June Is Out, September Looking Less Likely
What the Fed really wants is the flexibility to raise rates when they are absolutely certain higher borrowing costs won’t completely derail the recovery
Wages A 'Hot Button' Issue for Foreseeable Future
Monthly job creation has been steadily growing for more than a year, but there's one piece of the employment picture missing: Wage growth.
Former Fed Chief Ben Bernanke Gets Personal ... Sort Of
Former Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke's new blog for the Brookings Institution, the first entry of which was published on Monday, is an exercise in rhetorical balance -- and you can learn a lot, just probably not what you thought you wanted.
Dismiss the Noise About Delaying Rate Hikes
Balance will be achieved in the gradual process employed for raising rates once the initial increase is announced later this year.
Economic Recovery Built on Energy Bubble
The Fed-induced energy bubble is bursting, a bubble that helped mask weaknesses in the economic recovery.
The Fed: Impatience Won't Replace Patience
The word ‘patient’ may have been removed but the sentiment remains.
How the Fed Raises Rates More Important than When
The Federal Reserve's policy-setting board starts its two-day meeting Tuesday, and despite all the attention on the looming decision on rate hikes, how they will move higher is far more important than when.
The Risk of Losing Patience
To be patient, or not to be patient? Could the word's removal from next week's FOMC statement bring out the Street's 'seven deadly vices?'
Here’s What’s Bad About the Bank Stress Tests
Most of the government bureaucrats, the folks ‘giving’ the test, couldn't find their way out of a financial paper bag.



















