All Posts Tagged With: "obama"

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Homebuilding Goes Down While Economy Gathers Strength

Meanwhile, the news two days ago was that homebuilding took a dive in October. Work began on 11% fewer houses than the month before.

November 20th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
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US Economists Think China Should Raise the Value of Yuan

China is today’s big story. Throughout the world’s media there is much buzz and blather about the “romance”…the “historic relationship”…between the two titans.

November 19th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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US Has Highest Unemployment Rate of All Major Economies

You give them more money, say, in unemployment assistance. Or, you give them a tax credit when they buy a new house. Or, you give companies a big tax break.

November 17th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
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Obama Urged to Fix Airline Industry

On the surface of it, the idea is absurd. What does Obama know about airplanes? Who would want to fly in an airplane with Obama in the pilot seat?

November 16th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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Have the Feds Given the Economy a Miracle Drug?

Twenty years ago today…the Berlin Wall came down. This marked the end of the greatest controlled experiment in economics ever conducted. What did economists learn? Nothing…

November 10th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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The Future of Medical Technology

In the future, a visit to your family physician, or any specialist, will begin with a quick scan of the computer screen, where a few keystrokes will tell the doctor everything he or she needs to know about you…

November 9th, 2009 | Doug Hornig | 4 comments | Continued
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Only Hope for Obama is that the Economy Revives

Why not? Wait a minute…you already know the answer to that question. Because it’s a depression. It’s the end of the road for the consumer credit economy. Consumers did their best.

October 19th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
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Barack Obama and His Nobel Peace Prize

But the Nobel committee might have done worse. Barack Obama is not the first American president to win the award. Woodrow Wilson got it before him.

October 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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Federal Government is Sabotaging a Genuine Recovery

“Great time for US consumers, America is on sale,” says an item at YahooFinance. The “discounts are unbelievable,” adds a blogger known as Frugal Rhode Island Momma.

October 12th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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Warren Buffett: People Do Not Make Money by Betting Against the US Economy

What we saw was an over-stretched empire getting ready to snap. But we were also allowing ourselves to be lazy. Rather than deconstruct the capital structure of the world’s largest economy, we decided to sell the whole damned thing.

October 12th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
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