economics

Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) priced its initial public offering at $26 a share after Wednesday's trading, a touch lighter than investment bankers had hoped. It's not clear how the pricing, which values the company at roughly $14.2 billion, will affect markets on Thursday. Stocks mostly finished higher...

Stocks moved modestly higher on Monday for a second day in a row. The gains came despite a steep losses suffered by shares of mobile phone maker BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) and Kellogg (NYSE: K [FREE Stock Trend Analysis]) announcement it will cut seven percent of its workforce over the next...

The Libor scandal has engulfed banks around the world in controversy, forcing numerous traders and executives to resign. Banks globally are being charged with manipulating the rate that is used in setting trillions in dollars of derivatives worldwide, and the true impact of this scandal may yet be...

Editor's Note: This column is part one of a two-part discussion by William K. Black. The right has a reservoir of writers who can be relied on to defend and even praise elite white-collar criminals, but the center has managed to produce eager apologists for lies. This column discusses the BBC's...

Ponder this for a brief second: before June 11, 2012, the financial jargon word “Spailout” never existed. Perhaps it was scribbled on a whiteboard hung in an investment bank conference room should Spain score some money from an outside party to save its banking system (sound smart: “bailout”),...

Over this past weekend the Spanish government secured $125 billion in bailout funds (Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy prefers to call it a line of credit) to secure the Spanish banks.  The goal was to “ring fence” the banks from any further runs, particularly in light of this...

Boy, we extend an open invitation to any government official to join us as a Decoding Wall St. member free for a week. The lines of questioning and understanding of the broad economy, and the economy’s intricacies, were very painful to listen to at Ben Bernanke’s latest presentation before...

By Lance Roberts, Street Talk Live The problems facing the U.S. economy are daunting especially when it comes the issues of Government spending and the current deficit. We recently wrote about the dependency on Government programs which is currently making up as much as 35% of personal incomes...

The Economic Issues and Some Defensive Strategies and Ideas According to the WESP "World Economic Situation and Prospects Report" from the United Nations, the US and global economy is  in a rut and having extreme difficulty moving forward.  The report recommends  that governments must be...

The UMKC economics department is featured in an article in the current Playboy that discusses the failure of theoclassical economics and economists to admit their theoretical and policy errors. The devotion of theoclassical economists to those errors has proven so dogmatic that their disastrous...