Cheaper Alternative to Cosmetic Surgery

First comes the news that the “miracle” product that’s been proven to help people lose weight is actually … water. Which costs nothing or next to nothing. Now, this groundbreaking insight: There’s a free or nearly free alternative to cosmetic surgery that will make you look and feel better than if you’d gone under the knife.

Housing Market: What’s Ahead?

Are housing prices near a bottom? It’s not just policymakers, realtors and bankers who yearn for the turn. Anyone who owns a house, a condo or coop is surely wishing for some modest improvement. Not the least of these hopefuls is homeowner-in-chief Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who just this past Friday lamented …

Farewell

That homeownership story I’ve been going on and on about is the cover story of the magazine coming out today. You can read the first few paragraphs here. Unfortunately, to read the entire thing you have to either buy a paper copy or subscribe on the iPad. We’ve been over our feelings about this set-up before. In a couple of weeks, you’ll …

Is Bernanke Worried about Deflation?

Bernanke made a speech this morning to other central bankers, economists and journalists at an annual forum in Jackson Hole. There were a number of key phrases Fed watchers were expecting to hear and, hopefully, not hear. And here’s the tally. Bernanke used some variation of the work “slow” seven times. So, as expected, Bernanke was …

Bernanke’s Speech: Willing to Get “Unconventional”

Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke’s much anticipated speech to the Kansas City Fed’s Jackson Hole conference was fairly vague about Fed’s future course—no surprise there— but was also quite frank about the fact that the economy appears more sluggish than it looked to be just a few months ago. This reality check comes on the same …

Bernanke Speaks, But What is He Saying?

The big news of the market today is Ben Bernanke. He is speaking this morning at 10 AM at a conference for central bankers in Jackson Hole. The general outlines of what Bernanke will say probably won’t be a surprise. He will probably overview the Fed’s efforts to boost the economy so far. He will say the economy is recovering. And he …

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