The following is an excerpt from Where the Jobs Are Now: The Fastest-Growing Industries and How to Break Into Them.

I am not going to make a statement on the pros and cons of this bill, since frankly if not for the social safety nets expanded the past 2 years, I believe we'd have some very dire situations (i.e.

It's times like these with the Russell 2000 up 15 of the past 17 sessions, and all intraday pullbacks lasting at most half an hour before buyers rush in when it feels like the market is incapable of going down.  Perhaps the powers that be will make it so, I don't know.  Even Goldman Sachs (GS) is now ramping up, over resistance which clearly means Paul Volcker and his rules have been shot through the heart by the lobbyists.

Tuesday the Fed auctioned off another $37 billion in 4-week T-bills. My first thought was that this is reminiscent of “payday loans” shops, except the rate of interest is far lower when the question is, “Buddy, can you spare $37 Bil’ until next month?” but the mechanics were very interesting again and echoed what happened in January.

With this post, I want to try to clarify the Greek fiscal crisis. The problem is that it’s not clear exactly how serious the problem is, because most of the media coverage of the crisis has been directed towards the financial markets’ perception of it, rather than its underlying fundamentals. In the end, I think it’s important to understand both.