Credit Woes, Housing Data Drag on Stocks

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:02:31 -0600

Stocks tumbled Thursday as renewed concerns about the credit markets and another dose of disappointing housing numbers intensified the market's worries about the sagging economy. The Dow Jones industrials fell more than 100 points while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index gave up more than 1 percent.

Learning How to Spell "Inflationary Depression"

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:56:48 -0600

As usual, I take a long pull from a bottle of cheap tequila, use it to swallow a handful of various calming medications, and manage to take a long, soothing drag on a cigarette before my wife yells at me, "What in the hell are you doing out there behind the garage? Put down that …