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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...
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...
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...
Audio of my interview with Chuck Butler covering the dollar, the economy, attractive foreign currencies, and an easy way to invest in foreign currency.
While the Chinese stock market, as measured by the China Securities Index 300, is down 18% since October 16, that follows a period of almost two years, since January 1, 2006, during which the CSI...
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.
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...
There's hope for the dollar according to this article:
The dollar may well continue to decline, but that doesn't signal a long-term collapse of the currency. This downdraft is cyclical, not...
Next time you get change for a dollar, look at the coins. Unlike any other currency, there is something decidely different about our coins. And, ask anyone and they will not have noticed.
Common and popular perceptions of our relationship with China often overestimate its economic dominance and underestimate the value to the U.S.
One interesting example noted in the article:...
This is a lousy time to be in cash in the United States – interest rates are dropping fast and the value of the dollar is declining even faster. Individual investors can’t really play with the...
I believe that against a backdrop where inflationary pressures are persisting and where many will begin to question if the 75 bps move was an overreaction (or a SocGen bailout maybe?), that the Fed...
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