Finance Monitor

First, full disclosure here, I hold a modest position in January 2015 JCPenney (JCP) $10 call options as a small proposition bet that JCPenn...

This is a question, or some variant thereof, I get quite a lot. We very often hear that you'll earn anywhere between 7-10% on stocks per...

Alright, that was a much longer hiatus than I would care to ever repeat and I decided to get back into the swing of things here by writing a...

With a very strong ADP number this morning, some are wondering if tomorrow's jobs report could be a blockbuster.  There's a good cha...

As someone who works in the tax policy field, I understand where the frustration comes from when people look at the massive schedules of ded...

I sometimes forget that not only did Bank of America (BAC) buy Merrill Lynch, which was inexplicably on the verge of an utter meltdown in th...

Since we're coming up on the end of the year, we'll no doubt hear about how the next year will be an "average" year.  Very...

One of the things I see on more "populist" forms of financial news commentary is a grave mistrusting of seasonally adjusted data. ...

Occasionally I see something that annoys me so much that I feel the need to respond to it in a blog post.  Today, it was that I saw people o...

The stock market's initial reaction appears to offer the answer of "yes", but then again we saw fairly convincing rallies earl...