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While accountants make for a good scapegoat because of their inability to properly value bad mortgage securities, the blame doesn't rest on them. In defense of accountants everywhere.
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.
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...
The global economy has benefited from an extended period of historically low interest rates that fueled home buying, corporate mergers and wealth around the world. But rates are on the rise and the...
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...
Audio of my interview with Chuck Butler covering the dollar, the economy, attractive foreign currencies, and an easy way to invest in foreign currency.
BusinessWeek is running an article stating that India's growth is expected to drop ffrom 9% to 7% this year. As one of the countries gulping oil, will this help to pop the oil bubble?
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.
In this stunning video, Cramer accuses Alan Greenspan of excess self-promotion (talk about the pot calling the kettle black). He also says that Greenspan is incorrect in calling for a correction...
Have you ever even stopped to think about why dimes and qauarters (and fifty and one dollar coins) have ridges all around their edge? And, for that matter, why pennies and nickels do not?