Let’s see, in the 1980s Japan’s corporate leaders thought they were going to take over the world. Investors thought so too. They expanded. They wheeled. They dealed. Prices shot up and they all thought they were geniuses.
November 13th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 13 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "government debt"
What’s the Best Way to Get Through a Debt Crisis?
For at least a thousand years, the business cycle went round and round without help from central bankers or economists. It is only since these geniuses have been on the case that really serious problems have arisen.
November 2nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
Government Debt
And that assumes there is no big increase in interest rates…and that the economy recovers as planned. If either of those things fails to happen, the situation will degrade fast.
October 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
China Rises While United States Declines
“The future will be a total disaster, with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today, wars, massive government debt defaults and the impoverishment of large segments of Western society,”
October 1st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 8 comments | 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
Gold is Money
Gold’s recent breach of the symbolic US$1,000 level has elicited a predictable amount of commentary from mainstream analysts. The problem is, much of it is ill-informed.
September 15th, 2009 | Greg Canavan | 0 comments | Continued
Dividends and a Sea Change in Corporate Behaviour Toward Shareholders
Maybe we’re getting ahead of ourselves with the idea that Aussie companies will begin boosting dividends to attract shareholders. After all, Bloomberg reports that Aussie firms tapped the equity markets for over $90 billion in capital in the last fiscal year. It’s what you do when you’re rebuilding your balance sheet and paring back debt.
July 8th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
American Family’s Share of Government Debt Now Over Half a Million Dollars
Last year’s spike is the biggest since the Medicare prescription drug benefit was added in 2003. According to the rag, the government garnered $6.8 trillion in “new obligations” in 2008, bringing the total US tab to $63.8 trillion.
June 2nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued