Eduardo Saverin moved from Brazil to Miami with his family in 1992; he was 13 years old. Saverin became a U.S. citizen in 1998, eventually attending Harvard where he met Zuckerberg. They worked together on Facebook in school, with Saverin earning owners ...
Tag: Government
Blog Post - May 15th, 2012
All terms: capital gains, cycles, Debt, Debt, Government, Tax, U.S. Dollar
Blog Post - May 14th, 2012
With the recent Eurosis-driven bout of dollar strength, hopefully many of our readers are proud owners of hard money (gold and silver).
Many such folks save in quite creative places. Mattresses come to mind; caves have been in the media recently; an ...
All terms: banks, Commodities, Euro Crisis, Gold, Government, Michael Maloney, Silver, storage
Blog Post - May 10th, 2012
One week ago, on May 3, we wrote ECB Holds Line on Interest Rates, More Printing regarding the coordinated status of central bank policy. We said:
“The Bank of England will decide next Thursday, May 10, if it will continue printing beyond the ...
All terms: Bank of Japan, Central Banks, Currency, currency inflation, ECB, Federal Reserve, GDP, Government, IMF, Monetary Policy, quantitative easing
Blog Post - May 8th, 2012
Greece held elections on Sunday, May 6, and now has four tries to form a coalition government; otherwise voters return to the polls in mid-June. The two statist (like Democrat and Republican) parties were expected to bring in the most votes, but that is ...
All terms: Bailouts, Debt, Debt, ECB, Euro, Government, Greece, Monetary Policy
Blog Post - May 3rd, 2012
Renewed sovereign debt crisis in Europe will be a driving force in global economic contraction, as the European Union is the largest destination for Chinese and U.S. exports. The European Central Bank’s (ECB) three-year long-term refinancing operations ...
All terms: Central Banks, Currency, Deflation, ECB, Economic Growth, Euro, Government, IMF, Inflation, Monetary Policy, Oil
Blog Post - May 1st, 2012
As of recent, Southeast Asia has been building momentum, both economically, as a result of broadening representative governments, and politically, with recent elections held in Myanmar and an upcoming announcement of election in Malaysia.
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Blog Post - April 26th, 2012
As expected ( here , and here ) the two-day meeting of Federal Reserve branch presidents culminated April 25 th with no printing yet this early on, lending rates unchanged and, most notably, expectation of “exceptionally low” rates through at ...
All terms: Bernanke, Commodities, Federal Reserve, Gold, Government, Interest Rates, Monetary Policy, Oil, quantitative easing, U.S. Dollar
Blog Post - April 19th, 2012
Central America has been on the rise when it comes to strong leadership. Guatemalan President Perez Molina has been a busy man recently, speaking at the World Economic Forum on the path he sees that encourages advancing prosperity for Guatemalans, ...
All terms: Central Banks, Commodities, Government, Government, Mexico, Monetary Policy, Politics, Silver
Blog Post - April 19th, 2012
Central America has been on the rise when it comes to strong leadership. Guatemalan President Perez Molina has been a busy man recently, speaking at the World Economic Forum on the path he sees that encourages advancing prosperity for Guatemalans, ...
All terms: Central Banks, Commodities, Government, Government, Mexico, Monetary Policy, Politics, Silver
Feature - April 18th, 2012
Like other wily tycoons who built huge fortunes in the growing American economy of the 19th century, Cornelius Vanderbilt became known to history as one of the era’s “Robber Barons.” But although he was a ruthless competitor who helped invent some of ca ...
All terms: Capitalism, commodities, Government, innovation, Political Economy, transport, U.S. economy, Fundamentals