Bearish barks and wagging tails in the forex markets...

CNBC held a dynamite interview with David Rosenberg, former Merrill Lynch chief economist and current strategist at Gluskin Sheff, who offered the kind of big picture, 30,000 foot view that I love...

I really don't want to beat a dead horse here and although I already gave it a kick in the context of the release of the May consumer price data I do think that this is pretty significant...

Although the government parties rallied from behind as the night went on, the LDP and Komeitō failed to recapture a majority of the seats in the Tokyo metropolitan assembly, the goal set by the LDP...

As of this writing, the DPJ has surpassed the thirty-eight it held before the election, winning forty-two seats. It is twenty-two short of a majority, with seventy-six remaining...

Michael Jackson aka The King of Pop leaves behind arguably the most extensive and lucrative pop music catalog in the world. Even though Jackson passed away, his brand will leave an imprint in pop culture for decades...

Taku Yamasaki, perhaps the leader of the LDP's remaining doves, spoke at a Genron NPO meeting Thursday afternoon at which he addressed Ryohei Murata's revelations of the secret deal between the US and Japan that permitted the US to "introduce" nuclear weapons to Japan...

Corporate bond issuances by Japanese firms shot to a record 1.74 trillion yen in June, according to a report in recent Nikkei. This figure is up 150 percent on May 2008, reflecting the intense amount of fundraising that is currently happening in Japan...

How the Web is making the world a greener place...

We should see an otherwise unremarkable week...