In recent years, the biggest story of Thanksgiving week has been “Black Friday.” That’s the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season when crazy people line up at crazy hours to go into stores that open at crazy hours to take advantage of crazy discounts.    Read More

I always enjoy hearing from you and your fellow readers of Investor Brief. Although I can’t respond to each and every one personally, I will try to answer a few from time to time here on the blog....   Read More

In the last 30 days, the Dow’s volatility increased significantly and took investors on quite a roller coaster ride. As such, I’m hearing from a lot of people who wonder what to do next.    Read More

Did we witness the silencing of one of the greatest central bankers ever yesterday? Yesterday’s appearance on my show by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker raised serious questions whether he is being silenced by the White House.    Read More

'We've got to move to an economy that can produce more jobs. I think that means to be sustained over a period of time, we need to improve our export ability and capacity,' said White House economic adviser PAUL VOLCKER in an exclusive interview.   Read More

I would be lost with out my BlackBerry, which continues to help me be more productive every day, allowing me to do so much at once from anywhere in the world. And I know I am not the only one.    Read More

Even Byron Wien doesn’t expect to be as right in the future as he has been this year. Wien is the Senior Managing Director at the Blackstone Group, and if you’re not familiar with his Top 10 list, every year at the beginning of January the famed market strategist releases his surprises for the coming year. Now, as we wrap up October, it is amazing to go back and look at his list for 2009 and how accurate he was.    Read More

Today, the much-anticipated Windows 7 operating system for PCs hit the market. In talking with analysts and money managers in recent weeks, I now view the Windows 7 launch as being almost as important as the holiday shopping season this quarter.    Read More

One thing I've learned through the years is that there will always be growth opportunities and places to invest wisely for the long term. As the U.S. wrestles with the aftershocks of the financial crisis, many investors I talk to are scouring the earth for some of the best opportunities.    Read More

'There's much more capital today than there was when we started, and you're seeing in cost of credit, availability of credit, really dramatic improvement in access to credit,' said Secretary of the Treasury TIMOTHY GEITHNER in an exclusive interview.   Read More