The stock market is the most public face of the economy. When the economy is in the doldrums, like it has been for over a year now, the stock market naturally sinks. The S&P 500 index was 35% last year and has seen losses of almost 15% year to date. With these kinds of losses [...]

Every day the sky is falling. The economy is in the shatter, unemployment is highest in over a decade, stocks are falling, marquee companies are failing and no amount of bailout money seems to help. Stocks sell off constantly and there seems to be no end in sight. Brief rallies are obliterated by profit takers [...]

You know it, and the news confirms it; even market mavens have been handed big losses this last year. These guys are professionals; they went to school for this, work in the trenches every day and they still can’t get it right. Not only have the rank of file of the investment world chalked up [...]