Thanks to the folks at the NYSE, we have a historical recap of monthly outstanding margin debt going all the way back to the 1950s.  Most of you will be aware of this already but margin is the means by which an investor can lever themselves into purchasing additional volumes of stock that they

An interesting paper by Dr. Guenter Loffler, a Professor of Finance at University of Ulm in Germany titled "Tower Building and Stock Market Returns" draws an interesting historical connection between the construction of a large number of buildings and the behaviour of the stock

Now that Janet Yellen has telegraphed what the Federal Reserve will be doing next, with the economy looking rather weak at best, one has to ask, what happened to all of that monetary stimulus that Ben Bernanke implemented that was supposed to benefit the U.S. economy?