Paddy Hirsch is a former Contributing Editor at Marketplace and the creator and former host of the Marketplace Whiteboard.
The price of oil jumped more than two-and-a-half percent today to more than $87 a barrel. The rally in shares on Wall Street, and a report that …
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The likelihood of the U.S. slipping back into recession doubled in the past three months, according to a survey of 39 economists by USA TODAY. Th…
Joining the ranks of those in favor of raising taxes on the rich today, one of the richest of them all. Warren Buffett. "My friends and I have b…
Lost decade. Zombie banks. Nuclear disaster. Headlines like that don't make Japan the obvious choice for the poster child for economic recovery. …
Italy, France, Spain and Belgium banned short selling today. They want to calm the markets down, and they figure "the shorts," as they're called,…
Kai writes… Let me just tell you right out — I am biased. But I think there's really no better place in Southern California to talk about the…
New York grocer Zabar's busted subbing crawfish in so-called lobster salad. What's next, tilapia in the lox?
The stock market's fastest electronic firms boosted trading threefold during the rout of August 1-10, Bloomberg reports. Gary Wedbush, executive…
