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 | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "u.s."
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
Everyone is Busily Debasing Their Currency
There is a risk in holding cash in an environment of asset price inflation – a condition that usually occurs when governments create large fiscal deficits and inflate the money supply.
November 12th, 2009 | Dr. Marc Faber | 2 comments | Continued
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
Bubble Age Jobs Lost Because of Recession
Millions of people, for example, earned their money in ‘housing.’ They were putting up houses in the sand states…or building granite countertops…or selling, flipping, financing the houses.
October 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 7 comments | Continued
Cheapest Place in the World to Live is the US
Housing is cheap in the United States. In Texas and Arkansas, housing is probably the best bargain on the planet. Food prices are going up; still food in the US is much cheaper than it is in Europe.
September 22nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 21 comments | Continued
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
Ben Bernanke is No Hero
Yesterday, most of the news and commentaries concerned either the death of Edward Kennedy or the life of Ben Bernanke. We do not speak ill of dead, not here at The Daily Reckoning. So, we will speak ill of the living.
August 28th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
Still a Gold Bug
“You might want to hedge your bets on this recovery,” we told one Daily Reckoning reader. “It’s probably not going to work out.” “But I’m confused about something,” he continued. “You’ve been urging me to buy gold for years. And now you seem to be changing your mind.”
August 6th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 7 comments | Continued
The Markets Are Making Almost No Sense
The future of the U.S. dollar looks terrible, yet the dollar is rising at a record-setting pace. And depletion is causing oil output in some areas to…well, fall off a cliff, if I may use that phrase. Energy and commodity stocks are tumbling like buffalo in the olden days of Alberta. Let’s start with the U.S. dollar. It’s strengthening on world markets, but why? Is there some sort of good news about the U.S. economy we’ve missed? Is the U.S. tax code suddenly more capital friendly?
September 18th, 2008 | Byron King | 6 comments | Continued