The 19th century belonged to Britain, the 20th century belonged to America and in the 21st century, China will rule the business world. Whether you like it or not, this transition is already underway…
November 18th, 2009 | Puru Saxena | 10 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "federal reserve"
Harding the Last American President to Deal Honestly With a Major Financial Crisis
Just look up Warren Harding on Wikipedia. The first entry you will find is not the 29th president of the United States of America, but a rock climber with the same name.
October 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 12 comments | Continued
Separating the Short-term Trends in Financial Markets from the Long-term Trends in Geopolitical History
The Dow Jones slipped under 10,000 at the end of the day Wednesday largely because analyst Dick Bove changed his call on Wells Fargo from “neutral” to “sell.” Bove said the quality of the company’s third quarter earnings was, “pretty poor.” “If you take a close look at the earnings, what you can see is that the improvement is due to a hedging profit…
October 22nd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Economy Has to Grow at 1% to Stay Even With Population Growth
There are now about 131 million jobs in the United States…and about 15 million people who would like a job but can’t find one.
October 8th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
A Recovery of Some Kind in Global Trade
“Global trade rose at its fastest rate in more than five years in July,” The Financial Times reports, “suggesting the economic recovery is feeding through into commerce.”
September 30th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
An Abundance of New Money that Will Destroy the Dollar’s Buying Power
The importance is dependent on your perspective. Those people who are not borrowing money to spend are thus suffering the pangs of a lowering of their lifestyle, which depended on borrowing money to spend;
September 29th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 1 comment | Continued
Silver and its Large Short Position
So I was very interested when Ed Steer’s Gold and Silver Daily reports says that the commodity futures market report shows that bullion banks’ “silver net short position now stands at 213.6 million ounces…
September 22nd, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 10 comments | Continued
Financial Markets Have Clearly Rallied
If it’s true that markets lead economies, markets are telling us that things are going to get much better. The FTSE index of emerging markets is up 99% from its March lows. The S&P 500 is up nearly 60%. And gold itself is up 25%, with much of that move coming in the last few weeks.
September 21st, 2009 | Dan Denning | 10 comments | Continued
China is a Key Driving Force in the Gold Market
We already knew that the Chinese are buying gold – and hoarding it. For example, China is the world’s largest gold-mining nation. China mines more gold each year than the US or South Africa.
September 16th, 2009 | Byron King | 1 comment | Continued
A Deflation in Unit Labor Costs
Since employment is a lagging indicator of economic activity, we learned over the years to dig deeper than the headline figure to get a read on where labor market conditions may be going.
September 10th, 2009 | Rob Parenteau | 0 comments | Continued