Over the past five months, world stock markets have put on a historic rally.

Is it time to buy a house? Depends…

What’s new? Nothing much…Markets still moving up…

What’s good for Goldman is bad for the nation.

The depression deepens. “These are not layoffs… they’re permanent job losses,” said Barry Rithotlz this morning. “These people are not going back to work anytime soon.”

It’s the Ultimate Fighting Event – Worldwide Economic Mud Wrestling! See it now!

This weekend, I’ll be speaking at the Mt. Vernon Research/Investor’s Daily Edge “Boom & Doom” conference in South Florida. During my presentations, I’ll offer the attendees my top five stocks that I believe will fare well, no matter whether we’re in a depression or expansion. Now, it wouldn’t be fair to the paying customers if I give you those top five stocks here. But what I can do is provide you with the stockpicking method to my (some say considerable) madness…

Internally, the Japanese are still not big spenders. The population is not only ageing… it’s shrinking. That’s not happening in the US.

Ten years ago, Asian equities paid pitifully low dividends following the bull market in the late 1990s. But that’s all starting to change as many markets in the region now offer higher dividend payouts than the S&P 500 and many European equity markets…

The world’s power elite, the Bilderberg club, is getting together today at the five-star Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Greece. US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will be there. So will World Bank president (and Goldman Sachs alumnus) Robert Zoellick; head of Deutsche Bank Jo Ackermann; and European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet. The topic of discussion is the global economic meltdown.