It’s Shanghai hairy-crab season.

The bear market has to disguise its presence for as long as possible. Only an “invisible bear” is an effective bear. Here’s why the bear will come back.

The Fed spoke. The market rallied. The Fed stopped speaking. The market slumped. Clearly, what the market needs most is more Fed-speak. At 2:15 Eastern Time, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced that it …

While headlines raise fears of a double-dip recession, such an economic event is very rare and the recovery now under way actually is fairly normal.

In this era of high unemployment, flat home prices and do-it-yourself retirement savings, do the traditional rules for saving and investing still hold true? Why?