According to the RanSquawk news service yesterday, President Obama stressed that a “military component” was part of the potential strategy for dealing with Iran and that the best solution was a permanent agreement to end Iran’s nuclear ...
Tag: Barack Obama
Blog Post - March 6th, 2012
All terms: Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Commodities, Currency, Federal Reserve, fiat currency, Government, Oil, Political Economy, Ron Paul
Blog Post - February 14th, 2012
Earlier in February, President Barack Obama came to the podium to announce that “The economy is growing stronger…the recovery is speeding up. We’ve got to do everything in our power to keep it going.” Yesterday we profiled the recent jobless rate in a b ...
All terms: Barack Obama, Commodities, Debt, depression, economic recovery, Government, Government Intervention, shipping, U.S. Treasury
Blog Post - February 10th, 2012
After long months of wrangling, the U.S government and 49 states announced yesterday a settlement agreement in the bank foreclosure scandal. But despite the tough negotiating stances taken by some states attorneys general, the end result represents only ...
All terms: bailout, banking, Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Fannie Mae, financial regulation, Government, GSE, Housing Market
Feature - December 7th, 2011
In Michael Maloney’s most recent presentation at the Peak Potential Summit in Los Angeles, he discussed his founding vision for his companies, WealthCycles.com and GoldSilver.com. It’s a trite statement to say that the purpose of any company is to make ...
Blog Post - October 7th, 2011
Despite the Obama administration’s insistence that its new stimulus legislation is the answer to the nation’s unemployment problem, an objective look at the numbers tells a different tale.
“According to the St. Louis Federal Reserve, even if job cre ...
All terms: Barack Obama, Federal Reserve, Free Market, Government, jobs report, Unemployment, Wages
Blog Post - September 21st, 2011
Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal Opinion Page, says that President Barack Obama’s recent address to Congress on the American Jobs Act is at least progress: It sends a signal to the public of exactly how the President sees the U ...
All terms: Barack Obama, Government, U.S. economy, Current Analysis
Blog Post - September 9th, 2011
The week’s big news was Obama’s jobs speech to Congress yesterday. The U.S. president rolled out a $447 billion plan to spur job growth via tax cuts and infrastructure spending. To many of us it seemed more of the same stimulus strategy that world gover ...
All terms: Barack Obama, Free Market, Government, Ron Paul, stimulus, Tax, Unemployment
Feature - July 27th, 2011
"All the world's a stage and the men and women on it merely players. "
--William Shakespeare
Whether or not you agree with Ol’ Billy’s world view of life as theater, the spectacle of the past several weeks of political wrangling over the U.S ...
All terms: Barack Obama, Current Analysis, Debt, Federal Reserve, fiat currency, Gold, U.S. Congress, U.S. Government, Wall Street
Blog Post - July 7th, 2011
When we look back nostalgically to the go-go 90s, we often think of the tech boom, the dawn of the information age, and the Clinton-era budget surplus. It was a brief glimmer of economic prosperity before lurching from one crisis to another. While the p ...
All terms: Barack Obama, Budget Deficit, Debt, Government, government spending, National Debt
Blog Post - January 27th, 2011
Just two days ago, President Obama emphatically stated that cutting the debt was crucial to the future (see video). Yesterday, we went out on a limb and said President Obama’s commitment was unrealistic considering the fiscal past and present of th ...
All terms: Barack Obama, Budget Deficit, CBO, Debt, Government, National Debt