On Wednesday the Fed released its summary of comments received from its 12 regional districts in the November time-frame. The notes represent a collection of comments from businesses and other contacts outside the Federal Reserve and does not necessarily represent the views of Federal Reserve officials.
The regional reports indicate that economic conditions continue to improve [...]

Gosh, I’m so sick of their commercials. Where do they get the goofball with the infinitely joyful sing-song voice, who is always offering ever more fantastic deals on clothing that no one needs!
Buy three suits, get five free!!! For what, dude? Don’t have no job, don’t need no suit!
Or if [...]

I read recently that Barnes & Noble may soon be acquiring Borders. Borders belongs to K-Mart which is now combined in some weird and not very successful way with Sears, and K-Mart is struggling. Sears is doing even worse, much worse, and so Borders is about to go the way of all flesh. When that [...]