Even before the 2008 crisis, the United States and other debtor nations looked upon China as the Great Hope, as it cautiously introduced market reforms that promised, in time, to offer the debt-addicted world economy a brand-new marketplace, a trillion ...
Tag: economy
Feature - May 16th, 2012
All terms: buy gold, China, Credit, Current Analysis, economy, fiat currency, Inflation
Blog Post - April 25th, 2012
The commodity metal copper is known in the financial world as “Dr. Copper,” because, historically, the copper spot price has predicted the health of the global economy, as it is an important input resource to a huge number of industrial processes.
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All terms: Commodities, Copper, Currency, Demand, ECB, Economic Indicators, economy, Free Market, Industrial metal, quantitative easing, U.S. Dollar
Blog Post - March 22nd, 2012
In a recent Slate article, the author asks the question, “Would the United States save money by switching to a cashless economy?”
Reading the replies alone is more revealing than the contrived article, which seeks to condition the populatio ...
All terms: Commodities, confiscatable, Currency, economy, Gold, Government, Greece, Money Supply, Silver
Feature - March 21st, 2012
Japan’s central bank responded to a record trade deficit and shrinking GDP with a flood of new currency in February—a move that was a Valentine’s Day surprise for most analysts. But rather than improving, the trade deficit, inspired largely by high oil ...
All terms: Bank of Japan, currency inflation, Current Analysis, Deflation, economy, fiat currency, Stocks, trade imbalance
Feature - March 7th, 2012
Deflation is bad, right? Sure thats what you have heard over and over in the media, however in reality, it solely depends on one's frame of reference.
Here is the New York Times’ definition of deflation and its take on the topic, which mirro ...
All terms: Ben Bernanke, Deflation, economy, Federal Reserve, fiat currency, Inflation, Money Supply, Fundamentals
Blog Post - February 16th, 2012
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 ...
Feature - January 11th, 2012
With its recent announcement that it will begin forecasting estimates of future changes in long-term interest rates as well as plans for managing its investment portfolio, the U.S. Federal Reserve seems to be adding a new arrow in its quiver of tactics ...
Blog Post - January 9th, 2012
For the truly snarky, the latest coming sign of economic apocalypse comes from the old haven of secrecy and banking Switzerland. The Swiss National Bank, long known for maintaining a currency “as good as gold,” was recently challenged for pledging to pr ...
All terms: Central Banks, economy, Euro, Government, International Trade, Trade
Blog Post - December 30th, 2011
Free markets and capitalism have been getting a bad rap for decades, providing disingenuous justification for all sorts of meddling by governments and central banks. The truth of the matter is that modern society has never really given free markets a ch ...
All terms: economy, financial markets, Free Market, Free Market, Government, India, Oil, Personal Finance
Blog Post - December 22nd, 2011
"When government -- in pursuit of good intentions -- tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the costs come in inefficiency, lack of innovation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active ...
All terms: economy, Free Market, Government, Government Intervention, Milton Friedman, Wall Street