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It’s hard to believe that Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ:WFMI) was trading in the $50 range just one year ago. Today, the stock is struggling to stay above $10 a share. Of course these days, few stocks are immune from the global economic implosion we’re dealing with now. But Whole Foods has become that one company that I can’t help but to defend. You see, when Whole Foods first went public, it was a punching bag for every armchair analyst and media blowhard that took some kind of sick pleasure in the fact that in the first nine months of its IPO, the stock had dipped more than 30 percent.

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It’s reasonable to be a little worried about companies tied to this year’s back-to-school sales season, given the weak economy and consumers’ unwillingness to crack open their pocketbooks.

But we’re seeing some early signs of hope Thursday. As Dow Jones Newswires reporter Karen Talley points out, some retailers’ August sales are beating expectations. For several apparel retailers, in particular, same-store sales for the month are defying predictions. Even warehouse club Costco has turned in impressive numbers, while Hot Topic, Wet Seal and Zumiez are also defying predictions. Among the biggies, Target has fallen a little short of the market’s expectations Thursday, but the company is acting upbeat anyway. The stock h

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Investors probably got a little carried away with Fed chief Ben Bernanke’s comments last weekend at the annual Fed pow-wow in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

Bernanke’s cautious speech Friday, which yielded few surprises, ended up fueling a stampede into stocks and out of safer government bonds. But while the Fed chairman did lay out specific options for helping the economy further, his general stance — I’m ready and willing to help — isn’t particularly new.

Investors seemed reassured that the Fed would provide more credit if needed, and yet Treasurys — the securities the Fed would be buying to help the economy — fell in price. Similarly, the

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