Are the German subsidies for solar in question? ________________ Henry Blodget and I discuss why the economy is set to blast off. ________________ What happens, historically, when GE goes into an eight-day losing streak like it currently is

Whether the office holiday party is a chance to unwind with colleagues or an evening of forced fun with people you’re already sick of seeing all day, it’s an institution of corporate America. The food is abundant, the liquor flows, and for a few hours, your colleagues are human beings.

The 2008/2009 art market ended seven years of astonishing price inflation. By the end of 2008, contemporary art suffered a price decline of 27.1 percent, followed by another 4 percent drop in the first half of 2009, according to ArtPrice ‘s new report, Contemporary Art Market: The ArtPrice Annual Report .

On Thursday, South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Company posted Q3 profits of $826.2 million, more than three times its 2008 profits in the same quarter and an all-time quarterly high for the automaker. Given that the previous record of $680 million was set in Q2 of this year, it is clear that Hyundai, the world’s fifth-largest automaker, is riding a wave of massively increasing profits.

The case for legalizing insider trading. ____________________ The Halloween Stock Index.