Financial markets and institutions are mighty unstable no matter where you look these days. Europe, America, China, Australia. Where are you supposed to go to invest your money?
February 11th, 2012 | Nickolai Hubble | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "U.S. Economy"
Dylan Grice: The Man With One Hand
It isn’t often that there is standing room only at a presentation on the future of the Japanese economy. But that’s what I found when I arrived, admittedly a tad late, at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre to listen to Dylan Grice.
February 11th, 2012 | The Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | Continued
Debt Beats the Economy in a Growth Race
Economic Growth is stalled…debts are mounting up. Already the weight of debt is pressing down growth rates…and it’s getting worse.
February 10th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Stock Market Hindsight Versus Market Foresight
Occasionally we receive comments along the lines of ‘you try to push the market lower’ or ‘talk the market down’. Some mistake our realism for grumpiness. Or assume we just don’t like it when the stock market goes up. While flattering, we must admit we have no control over the stock market whatsoever.
February 9th, 2012 | The Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | Continued
When Emerging Markets Shape the Developed World
Try to imagine a world in which today’s emerging markets have more economic power, and vastly more people, than today’s leaders.
February 8th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
How to Prolong an Inevitable Free-Market Correction
Markets – free markets – are meant to be unstable. They are meant to crack-up from time to time. And thank God they do. Otherwise, we’d be stuck forever with zombie industries and dead end investments.
February 7th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Below Average Thinking With Thomas Friedman
We got a chuckle out of Thomas Friedman. Maybe he would be good as a brick mason. Or maybe a baker. Shame he got caught up in journalism. He has no talent for it.
February 3rd, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Persistent Questions About the Future of the US Economy
The US economy entered a period of debt destruction – a Great Correction, we called it. The question then was how long the Great Correction would last…which depended on what it was correcting.
February 2nd, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
Everything Isn’t Fine in the US Economy
The US economy has come back to output levels of ’07. But this feeble rebound not only holds the title of “weakest post-war recovery ever,” it also shows that something else is going on. Most economists have no idea what. So, they just think this “recovery” is unusually slow.
January 31st, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Why US GDP Figures Mean Nothing
Here’s a meaningless abstraction for you, Fellow Reckoner. US GDP grew at an annualised rate of 1.7% for 2011. Now, what does that sentence actually tell us?
January 30th, 2012 | Joel Bowman | 2 comments | Continued
The State of the Union Address and Obama’s Fairness Doctrine
We had been invited to watch President Obama give the State of the Union address with a group of dinosaurs…a group approaching extinction with dignity and intelligence. You might call them ‘thinking conservatives,’ ‘paleo- conservatives’ or ‘constitutionalists.’
January 30th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Currency Wars
The currency wars are heating up. On Wednesday, Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke promised speculators he would keep interest rates low until 2014.
January 27th, 2012 | Greg Canavan | 1 comment | Continued
Getting Out of Dodge: Part II
“Generally, one simply must internationalize one’s assets. The biggest danger investors face, by far, is not market risk – huge as that will be – but political risk. The only way to insulate yourself from such risk is to diversify yourself politically and geographically.”
January 26th, 2012 | Doug Casey | 4 comments | Continued
Getting Out of Dodge: Part I
An interview with international investor Doug Casey conducted by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator.
January 25th, 2012 | Doug Casey | 0 comments | Continued
The US Debt Cutting Derby
The public sector is leveraging up. The US is going deeper and deeper into debt. As it adds to the quantity of its debt outstanding, the quality should go down. And the price too. But it’s not. So, either the times are out of joint…or we are.
January 24th, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
