Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.

When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.

In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.