Insights

The House of Representatives voted 328-93 last week to impose a 90 percent tax on bonuses paid after December 31, 2008 by companies that received more than $5 billion in government bailout funds.

Treadmill-running in a Florida hotel last week, I got a rare opportunity to actually focus on CNBC for an hour.

Fed Chairman Bernanke made a good analogy when he compared the housing bailout to a smoking neighbor who carelessly sets his home on fire which threatens yours. Would you call the fire department? Of course you would. Rick Santelli should know better.

It's only a month before spring but we can already feel the fog beginning to lift. Of course, today's fog is the heaviest and thickest fog seen in a while, but it feels good to see a potential positive, in any case.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, close to 600,000 additional Americans will not need to "tumble outta bed" so early in February.

The first day of my game theory class in undergraduate school, the professor asked everyone in the room to write down on a piece of paper either an "X" or a "Y" and hand it in.

Many people who were used to preboarding in previous years will be saddled with the coach crowd for much of 2009 - that is,

The cycle described above can be applied to today's economy quite well. It can be easy to focus on today's individual economic statistics too much and lose the overall picture of the economy.