Hope is a powerful thing, even when it’s just a small flicker. Calling it “the stupidest law,” Democratic US Rep. Barney Frank announced yesterday that the Unlawful Internet Enforcement Gambling Act may be overturned sometime this year. Read More

Today, the Internet version of journalism--for the most part--has more to do with television reportage than what we old schoolers call real journalism. They jog, eat foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids and worry about their “image.” As the print media see it, the TV news execs decide what stories to run on the nightly news by reading The New York Times and The Washington Post on their way to work in the morning. Read More

This is an article that appeared on one of my favorite nanotech Web sites, www.azonano.com. I saw this late last night, and it struck me that, although this was written by the international environmental group Friends of the Earth (FOE, www.foe.co.uk), it reinforces the fact that friend… Read More

Nanotech is slowly sparking the imagination of the broader public, and that means Wall Street is moving ever more quickly to start picking its own favorites to sell to investors. Read More

With the broad stock markets in the US and around the world going through some gut-wrenching volatility, bonds are garnering their respect back from more and more investors who are concerned about the performance of their portfolios. Read More

For close to seven months, global equity markets have been locked in a steady, nearly uninterrupted uptrend. That benign environment came to at least a temporary halt last week as Asian markets led a sudden, sharp selloff that spread quickly to infect just about every sector and industry subgroup the world over. Read More

It certainly seems that the markets are anxious to rise again, a restlessness that weakens the case--argued by many market observers--that February 27 marked the beginning of something more than a 10 percent correction. Read More