All Posts Tagged With: "Paul Krugman"

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US Economy Still in a Deflationary Contraction

Most people think the economy will muddle through somehow…thanks to all those geniuses working at the Department of the Treasury and the Fed.

February 25th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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Occurences Within Economy Consistent With a Depression

“How can you keep talking about a depression,” asks a Dear Reader, “when the economy is clearly recovering just as it should be.”

February 24th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 10 comments | Continued
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Everyone is Getting Tough on Bankers

Good ol’ Paul Volcker is giving them hell. He told a group of bankers that the only innovation they came up with that actually added value was the automatic teller machine.

December 16th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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China and its Trade

In the early 19th century, traders from Britain and America bought porcelain (china), silk and tea. Trouble was, they could find nothing to sell in exchange.

November 23rd, 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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U.S. Government Must Roll Over $3.4 Trillion in Debt Over Next Four Years

And if America can’t find anyone willing to finance its deficits, what then? Well, the luxury of issuing debts in the currency you also print is that you can print money to pay for them. Technically, you can never become insolvent when you enjoy this privilege. The Fed, for example, can create new money to buy debt issued by the Treasury, funding deficits ad infinitum.

November 3rd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
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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
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Bankers Betting That the Money Given by Feds Will Be Worth Less Next Year

So far the bet has gone their way. Copper has doubled. Gold is up 20%. Stocks markets all over the world are up 60%. Foreign currencies, too, have beaten the dollar.

October 27th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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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
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Markets Rise While the Economy Sinks

The problem is that the global economy in general, and the US economy in particular, is operating on so much medication that it is difficult to conduct an appropriate examination of the patient at the current time.

September 21st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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