China reported its February balance of trade, posting the biggest monthly trade deficit in more than a decade, importing $31.5 billion more than they exported. Exports were down 23.6% from January.
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Tag: financial investment
Blog Post - March 15th, 2012
All terms: Assets, Bonds, China, Currency, financial investment, Monetary Policy, Trade, U.S. Dollar, Yuan
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 ...
Feature - February 1st, 2012
The conspiratorial and overactive imagination sections of our brains think that central bankers must live lavishly—bathing in champagne while pulling the monetary levers that make people dance with every movement of our modern markets. The August news s ...
Blog Post - October 13th, 2011
All the gloom and doom around the global economy has given rise to some odd duck investment products—what are known as “black swan” and tail-risk hedge funds. Basically, when you invest in these products you are betting that things are going to go very, ...
Blog Post - April 14th, 2011
In this final in the series of blogs, WealthCycles will be pointing out some of the flawed arguments and reasoning for buying gold and silver. Our goal is to at least make you think and help you not to take all the favorable arguments for owning gold ...
All terms: Commodities, financial investment, Gold, Personal Finance, Value
Feature - November 24th, 2010
While we’ve often said, “if you can’t hold it you don’t own it,” we of course are well aware that with owning physical gold or silver comes the challenge of where and how to store it safely and securely. If you’ve decided, as we have, that owning gold a ...