David Moon

You already know not to panic. You've heard the mantra a million times: just wait; the market will come back. The past three weeks certainly haven't been pleasant, but you lived through 2000 and even remember a little about 1987.

The intense volatility of the stock market over the past three weeks crystallized a number of things, not all of which were negative. Crises — real, imagined and exaggerated — often force us to do something that is ideally done ...

The headline from a newspaper story last week read "Dow collapse worst since 2008 crisis." One would have thought an editor could have put Monday's market decline in somewhat better perspective — or at least not in a misleading perspective.

General Electric President Ralph Cordiner declared the television the biggest consumer flop last year, saying that to operate today's new high tech gadgets, "you've almost got to have an engineer living in the house."

As a part of evaluating potential draft picks, NFL teams administer an intelligence test to prospective professional football players called the Wonderlic test. Some players have scored famously low on this exam.

The Wall Street Journal recently interviewed varied business professionals who opined that Facebook is worth somewhere between $100 billion and $234 billion.

A University of Tennessee finance instructor once told me that, unlike individuals, corporations and governments in developed countries could perpetually refinance their debt.

Data released last week and reported in this newspaper indicates that the economy has improved significantly - but for large companies, not for most individuals. Strangely, however, that seems to have had little negative impact on Americans' happiness quotient.

When I was a kid, banks would give you a toaster for opening a new account. It seemed like a small, generous gesture, but what it really did was add to the bank's overhead. Since very little of a bank's ...

My car is in the shop being repaired for hail damage. I'm hoping that the body shop employees are better at repairs than they are at macroeconomic theory.

When the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped below 12,000 two weeks ago, the investment pundits did what they always do: repeatedly state the obvious. Most of them focused on the overall market extending its longest weekly losing streak since the ...

The three major credit rating companies - Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch - are threatening to downgrade their assessment of U.S. Treasury debt.

I miss Bob Crossley. Robert L. Crossley was a former Knoxville mayor and longtime attorney who passed away in December 2006. He was the former law partner of another wise man and gentleman attorney, Howard Baker.

The prices of assets move around for all sorts of reasons, including: emotions, news reports, advertising, competition and economic factors.

Researchers in Madrid claim to be able to measure the rate at which a person is dying and plan to begin selling a life-expectancy test by the end of this year.