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This is an extraordinary article about the over-leveraged foreigners who came to Dubai for the good life and then are forced to rush out, leaving their homes and even their Mercedeses with the keys...
Here is the first part of a two part series on government spending and possible fallout. Will the safest bonds in the world be defaulted on? Take a look.
Series | Aug 22, 2009 | Views: 84 | Comments: 0 Tags: bonds governmant
Stagflation, deflation, depression and recession. Which are we in and which one are we headed to? I have no idea, but at least I can tell you what they mean.
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The sub-prime crisis and the credit crunch are about the failure of a lending system creating by Wall Street. Instead of banks keeping loans on their balance sheets, they pooled them and sold them...
Audio of my interview with Chuck Butler covering the dollar, the economy, attractive foreign currencies, and an easy way to invest in foreign currency.
Today's payroll and unemployment numbers are being interpreted to mean that the economy is not going in to a recession and that the Fed will not need to cut interest rates further. The dollar is...
The problems with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are one other example of how the old financial system is collapsing. The result will be higher rates for everyone and sinking home prices.
Bond yields are falling dramatically as the stock market comes down since there is a massive rush to the security of Treasuries. While the implied probability of a move following the August...
This is a really handy tool generated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. It takes options on federal funds futures and crunches them into graphs that show the probability of different rates...
Carry Trades are little known by the general public but are trillion dollar positions taken by some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds. Conditions that have favored Carry Trades are...
Robert Schiller just published an interesting article in the NY Timers on why human beings, and especially top economists miss diagnosing a market bubble until it is too late. The answer shouldn't...
Lest we all think that we were out of the woods with the credit crisis, the Fed announced today that it was extending several pieces of the assistance it has provided to investment banks.