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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Allan Greenspan has just published a paper which serves as a defense of his economic stewardship during the bubble years. The thesis of the paper is that a global...
I've wondering how the performance of the Dow in 2008 compares to the drop during the Great Depression. To find out, I graphed both and set them side by side. The results are interesting...
We've now had five bank failures in 2008 and I wanted to see how we are doing compared to the real estate downturn in the 1980s and savings and loan crisis it precipitated. The results are...
The conventional wisdom says that inflation is very bad. It makes everything we buy more expensive and decreases the value of our currency. But there are times when inflation is good for you.
Marc Faber, the editor of a newsletter called the Gloom, Boom, Doom Report did an interview with Bloomberg in which he called US Treasuries junk. Well, what can you expect from someone who writes...
The payroll numbers are out and they looked pretty dreadful. Instead of a gain in payrolls, employment actually fell by 4,000, the first time the number has dropped in four years. I took a stand...
With a modicum of hindsight now available, do governments and central banks deserve credit for preventing catastrophe? The early verdict from most scholars, executives and government insiders is...
The prevailing wisdom today amongst analysts and those “in the know” is that interest rates are poised to go higher, partly because of massive government borrowing/spending. Yet, Japan's...
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Asian markets were trading higher on Wednesday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 index up on gains in automakers Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co., while the Hong Kong...
Marketwatch writer Paul Farrell brings up some interesting points but I find things are never as bad as they seem, or as good. I also look at articles like this as a marker to a bottom in the...
Last July I compared bank failures in 2008 to bank failures during the S&L Crisis in the 1980s. At the time, Indymac has just failed and many hoped the banking system would stabilize. Then came...
GDP for the third quarter of 2009 was revised down from 2.8% to 2.2% today. That was a greater drop than many economists forecast (aren't economists like meteorologists?). As the graphs below show,...