Economics and Currencies on BestCashCow - economy, recession, dollarBestCashCow | Making You Money: financial news, financial products, financial tools
Compare the best CD rates, the best money market rates, the best savings rates, mortgage rates, home equity rates, auto loan rates and more - as well as find financial information that can help you make better decisions with your money.
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...
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...
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.
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.
Wells Fargo's results show that a financial institution which has remained fcoused on credit quality and risk management even throughout the housing and credit bubbles of the early part of the this...
The signs are pointing to a crisis -- and a crash for the GOP.
I think this article is a little too pessimistic, but it's interesting nonetheless.
On a side note about depression, there's no...
Here's an interesting one sent to me from Everbank. They have a new CD product that consists of currencies from countries that have strong balance of payments and positive trade deficits.
Article provides some similarities between the government's response of the economic problems in 1929 vs. today. These included:
"promise from Congress to offer bipartisan support for a tax-cut...
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...
In 2000, while working at JP Morgan Chase, quant guru David Li published a paper in The Journal of Fixed Income titled "On Default Correlation: A Copula Function Approach." The paper detailed a...
In this Wall Street Journal interview, a foreign currency analyst discusses why he thinks the dollar will bounce between 7-10% in the short term. The bottom line: weaker oversees growth.
This...
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...