Author: Dian Chu

By EconMatters The American Institutes for Research (AIR) published a report in August this year taking a look at the economic impact of college dropouts.  The AIR analysis estimated that the cost to the nation from...

By Muzammil Bashir (Guest Post) While the residential real estate market has been in a slump for quite some time now, the commercial real estate market continues to thrive for a number of reasons. Real estate has always been,...

By Ellen Brown (Guest Post) “Unrestrained financial exploitations have been one of the great causes of our present tragic condition.”    ~  President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933Why did gold...

By Doug Short (Guest Post) The ECRI has publicly announced that the U.S. is tipping into a recession.Early last week, ECRI notified clients that the U.S. economy is indeed tipping into a new recession. And there’s...

By Roberto De Primis  (Guest Post) In 2010, Facebook spent 351,390 USD paying lobbyists based in Washington DC (while Apple and Yahoo paid respectively 1.6 M USD and 2.2 M USD). These figures are far away what Google...

By EconMatters We at EconMatters expected the QE2 froth to come out of markets once the fed experiment of artificially inflating asset prices was over, and for the most part this is exactly where we are today at the crossroads....

By Chris Vermeulen & JW Jones  (Guest Post) Silver and copper have recently been going through their own private bear markets. Since the open on September 1st, silver futures have sold off by more than 25%. During the...