Happy National Pancake/Leap Year/Week before Super Tuesday Day, all. It has been a turbulent past few months and not just in the oil market. I will get into why very shortly but, for now, let's just say that after a long and dark winter, I am once again available for...

Something to inspire your Friday: The story of a 30-year-old from Sunrise, Florida, who's defying Wall Street -- and not getting hit with a nightstick for it. Who is James Koutoulas and how did this 30-year-old end up leading the charge to recover more than $1 billion...

It met rarely and whined often. It gave up before the actual deadline (Nov. 23). It sought to shear over a trillion off the national budget, but came up with peanuts. It inspired satire in the form of, among other things, superhero cartoons. It was the...

It's official: when a Wall Street powerhouse suddenly collapses and (possibly) more than a billion dollars goes missing, it's no longer just the ordinary taxpayer's problem. Now, it has moved up the chain. Below, the piece I wrote today for Fortune on what traders do...

Sometimes there's a need to find a good lamp guy. The guy the other lamp guys go to who really knows where it's at. That guy is Francis Nowalk of Pittsburgh (or for those of you who want to get persnickety about it, Bloomfield, PA, the Little Italy of Pittsburgh)....

Not all banks are the same. A handful of banks -- such as the one that invited me to speak in Austria this autumn-- were not happy to see the multibillion-dollar bailouts, the hue and cry of the public and the resumption of the indefensible bonuses on Wall Street that...

Our national discourse on the nature of wealth has been a good cure for sanity of late. News that a book coming out from the surviving son of Bernard Madoff, mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, elicited comments from readers that could be called...

Since publishing "The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked The World's Oil Market,"  I have received a great deal of response (most of it in private correspondence and some in public forums, such as the press and in the courts, where I spent the better part of my summer...

With the hurricane aside and the power on, I finally settled down to watch the National Geographic Channel's exclusive interview with George W. Bush on the TiVo. This program actually aired last weekend. I am just catching up on it now. In it, George Bush reflects on...

In the end, it was all a little too anticlimactic. Despite the impressive turnout of Anderson Cooper at CNN, Shepard Smith at Fox News Channel, Brian Williams at NBC, Diane Sawyer at ABC and Scott Pelley at CBS, Hurricane Irene did not stick, stubbornly turning into a...

Warren Buffett, the world's third-richest man, hasn't raked in his $50 billion-plus by  nursing a bleeding heart for the middle class. In fact, those closest to him (I am talking about his kids and grandkids here) have personally told me the Seer of Omaha is as...