Conventional sources continue to claim that the U.S. economy is in recovery—slowly, it is said, at times even flat, but generally slightly positive in trend. But despite reports and indicators that most audiences accept unquestioningly as proof that the ...
Economic Recovery Articles
Blog Post - March 25th, 2013
All terms: Data, economic recovery, economy, Government, U.S. Dollar, U.S. Government
Blog Post - February 22nd, 2013
A new opera based on, of all things, an argument between two different economic philosophies, will premiere this spring. Meanwhile, the argument that inspired the musical work continues to simmer: Does economic austerity work? As Michael Maloney might s ...
Feature - February 6th, 2013
When is a recession not really a recession? The answer to that one is simple: when the government says it isn’t. Officially the post-crash U.S. recession ended in June 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. In fact, contraction of ...
Blog Post - December 28th, 2012
On the first Friday of every month, the Bureau Of Labor Statistics (BLS) issues the Jobs Report. This report oftentimes is a predictor and influencer of future economic reports. For this and many other reasons, the rhetoric surrounding these reports ...
All terms: economic data, economic education, economic future, Economic Growth, Economic Indicators, economic recovery, economic trends, Economics, education, employment, fraud, Government, Government, Government Intervention, investment education, Personal Finance, Scam, scandal, statistics, U.S. economy, U.S. Taxpayer, Unemployment, United States, US Economy, Wages
Blog Post - December 17th, 2012
As we close on the end of the year, it is time to look back at the big picture 2012 painted.
With 2012 culminating 32 years of rising bond prices, following decades during which U.S. investors had taken to calling bonds “certificates of confiscation ...
All terms: Bonds, Debt, Debt, economic data, economic education, economic future, Economic Growth, economic history, economic recovery, economic trends, education, employment, finance education, financial advice, financial education, Investing, investment advice, investment education, investment opportunities, Japan, Lost Decade, Monetary Policy, Monetary Policy, Money Supply, Personal Finance, precious metals, recession, shipping, Silver, stock market, Stocks, US Economy
Blog Post - November 1st, 2012
Candy Candy Candy: The Halloween Video Guide to Exchanging and Trading Candy
Kid-safe Version of Buzzfeed's Halloween Guide to Trading Candy.
Credit for the original video: Buzzfeed.com
We did remove a few frames for our family ...
All terms: Austrian Economics, BLS, Capitalism, Consumer Confidence, economic education, Economic Growth, Economic Indicators, economic recovery, economic trends, education, employment, finance education, financial education, Free Market, Free Market, Government, jobs report, Keynes, labor, Personal Finance, U.S. economy, U.S. Government, Unemployment, US Economy
Blog Post - August 30th, 2012
In a May 2012 feature article on WealthCycles, we chronicled Iceland’s recovery from its massive banking collapse in 2008. Mainly due to a focus on protecting domestic deposits and a refusal to bail out the failed banks, Iceland has be ...
All terms: Currency, currency, economic recovery, economy, Euro, Euro Crisis, Eurozone, IMF
Feature - May 2nd, 2012
Transformed in a handful of years from a tiny fishing economy to an international banking powerhouse to a poster-child victim of the global crash, Iceland provides the perfect microcosm for observing the end results of cheap, plentiful cash and governme ...
All terms: banking, Current Analysis, Dollar, economic recovery, Euro Crisis, Financial Crisis, global economy
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 - December 29th, 2011
Buckle your seatbelts for an action-packed year. It’s almost like 2011 is leaving us like the cliff-hanger ending of an old comic strip—can Europe be saved? Can the euro survive? Will deflation engulf the world? Stay tuned for the next episode… ...