Fewer and fewer investors are participating in the stock market after $395 billion more dollars have left equity mutual funds than have gone in (below) since the summer of 2008 to the present (data source: ICI ).
NY stock exchange volume h ...
Tag: US Economy
Blog Post - February 16th, 2012
Blog Post - February 13th, 2012
During July of last year we went though the details about the manipulation of the rate of unemployment. We showed how the decrease in the quantity of the people considered “in the labor force” leads to a lower rate of unemployed than is in fact ...
Blog Post - February 7th, 2012
Imagine if, as a household, you went into debt deeper and deeper every year. You announced your intentions to do so periodically, and as you went along, you consistently spent around 2 times more than your income. Would you be viewed as less reliable ov ...
All terms: buy gold, Commodities, Currency, Debt, Debt, Gold, gold market, Government, National Debt, US Economy
Blog Post - November 25th, 2011
Black Friday is here—historically the heaviest shopping day of the year and the day many retailers count upon to move their balance sheets from the red into the black. At a macroeconomic level, the U.S. Federal Reserve and government also wait with fing ...
All terms: Consumer Confidence, Consumer Debt, Credit, Credit Cards, Currency, Debt, Economic Growth, Personal Finance, US Economy
Blog Post - November 17th, 2011
A relatively simple question on the Federal Reserves website seems to have the most confusing answer of all time.
Question: “Is the Federal Reserve printing money in order to buy Treasury securities?
Answer: “No.”
Surprisingly to most pe ...
All terms: base money, Federal Reserve, Government, Government, Monetary Base, US Economy
Blog Post - November 11th, 2011
The headlines continue to be all about the European financial crisis, heads of governments falling on their swords in order to ensure passage of austerity packages and the looming threat of a debt-induced collapse. But many economists and analysts maint ...
All terms: Currency, Debt, Debt, Dollar, economic future, economic trends, Euro Crisis, Eurozone, Monetary Policy, US Economy
Blog Post - August 25th, 2011
It’s been a wild week for gold investors. As always, we at WealthCycles.com don’t make predictions or give investment advice—but we will tell you what we plan to do.
As the world waits for U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke’s Jackson Hole prono ...
Blog Post - July 18th, 2011
For the first time in the four years since the housing crisis began, things might seem like they are looking good again. According to S&P Case-Shiller’s 20-city price index, homes have fallen in price to levels not seen since 2003, and homes are mor ...
Blog Post - June 7th, 2011
This week’s New Yorker Financial Page features a topic that WealthCycles.com is undoubtedly passionate about—the evolution of financial and economic data. From the dark days of the Great Depression, when a “computer” was a person whose job was to ca ...
All terms: Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI, economic data, Government, Great Depression, US Economy
Blog Post - May 31st, 2011
The big story in the headlines today is that housing has officially entered into a double dip downturn. The housing market has surpassed its previous lows and now is roughly at 2002 prices.
The big issue that everyone is missing here is, of course, ...
All terms: Currency, Debt, Free Market, gold prices, Real Estate, real estate bubble, real estate crash, US Economy, Value