Economy

In case you missed it last night here is one that is sure to get your feathers up. It’s about time they Occupy Congress.

Gallup reports that Congress' job approval is entrenched at a record low of 13%. Here’s what I noticed, however.

The Finance Addict writes : "We need to put our cynic hats on and start questioning why it is that the SEC isn’t getting any. My guess–it’s no accident."

Here’s more from Warren Buffett on CNBC this morning. This time he talks to Becky Quick about ‘Too Big To Fail’. CNBC host Joe Kernen takes sides with the Occupy Wall Street protesters and asks Buffett whether we can regulate them to “keep…

Economic data has been of tertiary concern to the market recently, overwhelmed by the drama in Europe. Given that the drama may die down, with new governments in Greece and Italy, the economic data may become somewhat more important.

In this interview from late October, Professor Bill Black tells us what he would demand, if he marched with Occupy Wall St. to the New York Fed.

For all practical purposes the Fed has done it all. And yet unemployment remains at depression levels of over 9% (and over 16% the way it used to be calculated not long ago) and the only thing keeping what’s called ‘inflation’ over 1% is a…

David Rosenberg recently spoke to WealthTrack's Consuelo Mack about prospects for the US economy. Rosenberg believes that upside to US economic growth will continue to be constrained by high levels of debt. Despite historic levels of fiscal…

This video is about the Chinese view of America’s budget battles. The US congress has until November 23rd to figure out on how to reduce its public debt. If it doesn’t, eventually mandatory budget cuts will go into place. As a result, Guan…

Marshall Auerback was on BNN yesterday talking about the sovereign debt crisis. He believes that there are two distinct issues at play. One is national solvency, the other is aggregate demand. In his view, the national solvency issues take…