Toggle bonds are back. Even as the major Wall Street firms and banks come clean on their subprime mortgage loans, investors are snapping up the…

Zvi Bodie is a leading finance professor comfortable in the quantatative world of finance theory and practice. Still, he's strongly committed to…

Another Star Tribune Q & A column….

This is good news. Clive Crook, the Financial Times' Washington columnist, now has a blog. Crook is an astute commentator on the intersection of…

The stock market is struggling today. But its performance in recent months–including October–is remarkable considering the high price of oil, the…

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is a sleepy agency of state insurance regulators. Their track record isn't exactly stellar. But…

This item comes from Ricardo Hausmann, a guest blogger on the site of Professor Dani Rodrik. For anyone intersted in development economics Rodrok's…

I just got this message from Sibson Consulting, the benefits consulting firm. It's more disappointing news on the wage front:…

James Hamilton, economics professor at the University of California, San Diego and blogger, offers up this chart on the high price of oil. I…

It's a slamdunk in the opinion of Wall Street: The Federal Reserve Board will cut the central bank's benchmark interest rate when the Federal Open…