Harvey Pitt and Robert Herdman were helping companies transition to higher levels of regulatory compliance -- it will be a riskier market without them.

The Fed's finally fighting deflation -- but if deflation is already subsiding, then they're making a whole new world of risk.

The Fed may not know what deflation is, but they know how to fight it. Sadly, the GOP neither knows what growth is, nor how to stimulate it.

In the last month's recovery, technology stocks have become extremely overvalued relative to the rest of the market.

Japan's anti-deflationary efforts remain mired in politics and incompetence.

Is the NASDAQ saying that tech is back, or just that investors are now more risk tolerant?

Bush's selection of Snow and Friedman dashes hopes that the administration will adopt a strong pro-growth policy agenda.

If Stephen Friedman is out of step with Bush's economic ideology, why did Bush pick him in the first place?

Stocks were spooked by deflation fears today, but signals from gold and the dollar say "don't worry."

There are both big positives and big negatives that could emerge from the Lott crisis -- while we wait, there's big uncertainty.