The Hackensack

Hat tip to Cheryl for this article from NJ.com about how Craig Shelton, the chef/owner 1 of what was once New Jersey's most expensive ...

Long time readers may recall that we noted that shares of KSW Mechanical Services (Nasdaq: KSW ), Inc. plummeted last December when two pr...

On his blog , Joshua Persky links to this breezily written Wall Street Journal article in which he is featured, Lessons of Extreme Job-Hunt...

You can't hedge against the idiosyncratic risk of losing your job, but you can hedge against rising unemployment nationally. The North A...

Mohamed El-Erian's op/ed in Friday's Financial Times seemed like too-gloomy a piece to link to on the eve of a holiday weekend, so ...

In a post last fall ( "A Green New Deal?" ), we mentioned Van Jones's explication of the idea, advocated by many progressives,...

I meant to post a link to this earlier this week, but didn't get around to it. From Salon , here is Michael Lind's take on the victo...

Sam Mendes (of "American Beauty" fame) apparently has a new movie out (one I have no intention of seeing), based on a story by Dav...

James Kynge laid out his thesis for China's continuing growth in the wake of declining exports in a recent Financial Times column, ...

Below is an excerpt from the China-related part of Peter Zeihan's column The Geography of Recession . China's core is the farmland o...

A few excerpts from this week's Thoughts from the Frontline newsletter, "Faith Based Economics" : On America's Fiscal Chal...

China's exports were down 22.6% year-over-year in April, continuing a six month negative trend. That's the obvious cloud in China...

Alloy Steel International (OTC BB: AYSI.OB ) filed its 10-Q today ( summary ; full filing ). Another break-even quarter: $39,000 of net inco...

And everyone else who lives near a participating store: According to Bargainist , tonight is 31-cent scoop night at Baskin Robbins. You have...

That was the headline of Megan McCardle's post on her Atlantic blog in response to Paul Krugman's New York Times column today abo...

We noticed something new at our local Costco last weekend: USDA Prime steaks. Previously, the butcher section of the Hackensack Costco only ...

You be the judge. From his "Economic View" column in the New York Times yesterday, "It May Be Time for the Fed to Go Negativ...

One economic stimulus idea that has been proposed a number of times is for the government to spur auto sales by offering a voucher good towa...

I'm writing this from a local Starbucks, and it's quiet enough here that I overheard someone inquiring about a blueberry scone in th...

Ugly tape for Alloy Steel International (OTC BB: AYSI.OB ) on a down day. Looks like a flat-lining EKG. No company-specific news today, but ...