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Continue reading Black Coffee: It’s Time to Batten Down the Hatches

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... Happy New Year, everyone! Away we go ... Credits and Debits Debit: Despite being $72 billion in debt and guilty of defaulting on a portion of its bond payments last summer -- with ...

Continue reading Black Coffee: The Happy New Year Edition

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Continue reading Black Coffee: The Don’t Blink or You’ll Miss It Edition

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Excuse Me While I Blow Some Hot Air

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what's been going on in the world of money and personal finance. It's hard to believe, but this week my ...

Continue reading Black Coffee: The 7th Anniversary Edition

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... Yes, I'm back. I took last Thanksgiving weekend off. I hope you all had an enjoyable and restful holiday. I know I did! Okay, away we go ... Credits and Debits Credit: There's an old ...

Continue reading Black Coffee: Move Along, Folks. There’s Nothing to See Here.

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Wall Street and the New York State of Mind

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Continue reading Black Coffee: More Proof There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... And away we go ... Credits and Debits Credit: This week the media were celebrating the best employment figures of the year, thanks to a nonfarm payrolls report that showed 271,000 new ...

Continue reading Black Coffee: No, You’re Not Going Crazy — I Am

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what's been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Let's get right to it this week ...

Continue reading Black Coffee: The Halloween Edition

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Continue reading Black Coffee: The Winners and Losers Edition

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Continue reading Black Coffee: Zombies, Candid Central Bankers & Other Scary Things

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Continue reading Black Coffee: The Ripley’s ‘Believe It Or Not’ Edition

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... And away we go ... Credits and Debits Credit: After diving 250 points at the opening bell on Friday -- thanks to a very ugly September jobs report -- the Dow shook off the news and ...

Continue reading Black Coffee: There Are No Markets Anymore, Just Interventions

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Continue reading Black Coffee: The Piper, the Pope, and the Unholy Trinity

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Continue reading Black Coffee: The Fed’s Credibility Gap Is Wider than the Grand Canyon

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Continue reading Black Coffee: No, It’s Not Different This Time

It's time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe ... If you live in the US, I hope you're enjoying the long holiday weekend! Okay, off we go ... Credits and Debits Debit: Labor Day is finally here, but with a record 94 million ...

Continue reading Black Coffee: The Labor Day Edition

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Continue reading Black Coffee: So, Where Did All of the Buy-and-Hold Investors Go?

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Continue reading Black Coffee: It’s Time to Set Your Financial Doomsday Clocks