John Cohn

Since the great credit crunch began, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke has been a one-man band. Need a fix for crippled banks? Ben was...

Of all the sporting events with corporate underwriting, none is more emblematic than Ford’s sponsorship professional bull riders.

Its “Built Ford Tough Series,” sponsors the best and toughest bull riders on the circuit.

Economists are finally uttering the threewords everyone has been longing to hear.

The recession is over.”

Oops. That’s four.

When it comes to the map of the world, most Americans are myopic.

This is particularly true about our Scandinavian ally and trading partner Norway.

Ghosts and goblins. Rattling chains. Things that go bump in the night. It’s all part of the Halloween fun, unless you’re a bank.

With the corporate earning season here, and the impending release of the GDP (Gross National Product) numbers, everyone is scrambling to read the economic tea leaves. To get a leg up on the numbers, economists from Washington to Wall Street are busily dissecting everything from jobless rates and new home sales to the money supply and asset prices. In China, predicting their economic prospects is much simpler.

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.

Any student of the French Revolution should be familiar with this ignominious phrase. Unfortunately, the true meaning has been lost in the translation.

They did it again.

Mean times, lean times, in-between times. It doesn’t matter.

At Apple, Inc., maker of the Macintosh computer, iPhone and iPod, quarterly profits and revenues surpassed predictions, causing stock to rise to the highest in two years, above $207 per share.

Stocks are on the rise from Shanghai to London.

The Dow cracked the 10,000 point ceiling.

If it walks like a recovery and quacks like a recovery, is it?

Phone calls say a lot about us.

Our phone bill is like a graphic history of our daily lives.

If Regis is trying to stump you on your way to that million-dollar payday, who you call really matters.