By Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse (Guest Post) We are getting so close to a financial collapse in Europe that you can almost hear the debt bubbles popping. All across the western world, governments and major banks are...
Read MoreBy Central Bank News (Guest Post) The past week in monetary policy was relatively quiet with just 4 central banks announcing interest rate decisions. Israel cut its rate by 25bps to 3.00%, while Romania held at 6.25%, Taiwan...
Read MoreBy 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 students who...
Read MoreBy 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,...
Read MoreBy 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 and silver stocks just get hammered,...
Read MoreBy 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 nothing...
Read MoreBy 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 invested in...
Read MoreBy 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....
Read MoreBy 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 same...
Read MoreBy Charles Rotblut (Guest Post) The sovereign debt crisis in Europe may be presenting opportunities for long-term investors who are willing to take a contrarian stance. Seeking opportunities on the other side of the Atlantic...
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