In 1949, the Soviets and the Allies divided Germany into two parts. One part followed a traditional capitalistic path to reconstruction. The other part took the socialist road.
November 10th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "government"
Why I Would Have Raised the Interest Rates
Am I privy to the discussions of the RBA Board? No again. But I do know this. I do know why I would have raised rates, and would keep on raising them until the Government gets the message.
October 9th, 2009 | Dr. Steven Kates | 16 comments | Continued
You Can Have a Deadly Depression and Dizzying Levels of Inflation Simultaneously
“Inflation can and did occur during a depression, and that inflation was strictly a monetary phenomenon…”
September 24th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
Is Gold Going Up Because People Fear Inflation?
We began having doubts about the ‘feds inflate…gold soars’ hypothesis last year. It was too easy…too obvious. And if it were that easy to inflate a nation’s currency, how come the Japanese couldn’t get the hang of it…
September 24th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Proposals Inviting Government to Take Money from You and Give it to Someone Else
Look, there’s nothing wrong with looking for the perfect solution to something, we try to do that all the time. There is one difference though. We favour getting rid of regulations, taxation and compulsion and letting free enterprise and dare we say it, the individual make their own choices.
September 23rd, 2009 | Kris Sayce | 23 comments | Continued
Government Takes Away Almost Two Billion Dollars from Telstra’s Market Cap
The move we refer to is the forced breakup of Telstra’s retail and wholesale businesses. It will separate Telstra’s physical network from the services side of its business. The Minister announced legislation to achieve the split yesterday – and he did not make it in the form of a request.
September 16th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Cash for Clunkers Cars
This is a subject which is very interesting to me because I happen to be a guy who owned a whole series of clunker cars and trucks over the years because I couldn’t justify the expense of a new vehicle/a good vehicle/a better vehicle/a vehicle…
September 8th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 4 comments | Continued
September is the Worst Month for the Stock Market
In fact, the S&P has declined in 11 of the past 20 Septembers. You may be inclined to say, “That’s not so impressive.” But an average decline of 10 points is something worth noting.
September 4th, 2009 | Bill Jenkins | 3 comments | Continued
Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Are Back
Today’ Age reports that the Trust will try to raise $280 million from the issue. Some of that will be used to pay off nearly $450 million in securities that mature in December. Hmm. Selling more debt to pay off old debt. There’s never a bad time for that if you don’t have cash.
August 27th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
Rich Blamed for Financial Debacle of Last Few Years
Their governments all have in it for them…taxes on ‘the rich’ are rising. The Democrats are talking about financing the entire nation’s health care system on the backs of the super-rich.
August 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued