Then, on top of an increasingly worthless currency, Generation iPod also inherits about a quarter of a million dollars each in unfunded Social Security and healthcare obligations…
November 2nd, 2009 | Joel Bowman | 38 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "united states"
Americans Aren’t Borrowing Or Buying
This is the story we’ve been telling here at The Daily Reckoning for two years. Americans have to cut back. They are out of time and out of money.
October 13th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Is Gold at $1000 a Bargain…Or a Trap?
Barclays Capital says gold could go to $1,500. We don’t know where they got that number. It could go to $15,000 for all we know.
October 9th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
Britain, the Empire Which Had Paramount Global Power
Historians agree that Britain’s rise as a pre-eminent global power came as a response to changing circumstances and not as a part of a grand master plan; Britain, it has been said, stumbled into an empire.
October 7th, 2009 | Leon Hadar | 3 comments | Continued
A Bull Market That’s Missing Parts
For example, corporate earnings are missing. P/E ratios are rising far above the corporate earnings that support them. This puts the market 35% overvalued, on a cyclically adjusted P/E basis, says Smithers & Co.
October 2nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
A Look at Strategic Oil Reserves – Who’s Buying Oil?
As the US strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) approaches capacity (721.5 million barrels filled out of a total possible 727 million, and will be filled by January 2010), the federal government will fade out of the oil-buying business.
October 1st, 2009 | Marin Katusa | 0 comments | Continued
US Dollar Declining as China’s Currency Rises
“We may now be entering the Asian century, dominated by a rising China and its currency. This decline of the dollar might take more than a decade, but it could happen even sooner…
September 23rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
The American Empire Depended on Trade…and the Dollar
We would name the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of Lehman Bros – a period of only 19 years – as the peak of US power and wealth. Of course, Americans were dreaming during those years.
September 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
The More Money in a Financial System the Less Each Unit is Worth
For the last 10 years, the money supply in the United States has expanded at roughly twice the rate of GDP growth. And the Fed doubled its balance sheet in just the last 18 months.
September 8th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
One in Four US banks Announce Unprofitable Quarter
“Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal picks up on the theme of the long road of pain ahead for bank shareholders in the US,” colleague Dan Amoss tells us. “In ‘Banks on Sick List Top 400,’ the WSJ details several ugly highlights from the latest FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile, published last Thursday.
September 1st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued