Post Tagged with: "Wall Street"

About three years ago, the world started referring to Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain as the PIIGS.  These four countries had such terrible debt [...]

The London 2012 Summer Olympics kick off today, two weeks of international parading and guaranteed non-stop NBC coverage, but will these games create any real [...]

Economists often discuss the marginal utility of goods and services. For instance, your second donut is less satisfying than the first and by the fifth donut the value of one additional donut is slim. With each passing donut the marginal value of another donut is small. The question we now pose is does monetary policy and by extension all central banking

The Libor scandal that has recently come out is certain to affect the finance industry for many years to come. Repercussions from fixing an industry [...]

Nationalistic policies aimed at monopolizing resources are nothing new in the international trade arena. A regular candidate, the Chinese government, has joined this list (again) [...]

In April, the Economist ran an article explaining that US home prices have continued to slide even as interest rates fall (usually something that spurs [...]

It seems that our nation’s largest store of value is almost out of the woods. Ever since the housing boom reached its peak in 2006, [...]

Hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday!

Thanks to SlideShare for featuring our stickman series on their homepage!  

Our next stickman cartoon is a three-part series that covers a fifteen year history of Wall Street. Look for part 2 and 3 to be [...]

Looking Forward People are habitually guided by the rear-view mirror and, for the most part, by the vistas immediately behind them. – Warren Buffett in [...]

The average investor experience, explained through stick figures: