By Bruce Krasting (Guest Post) The Federal Financing Bank (FFB) has released its August report. This is the bank that has provided the $500mm to Solyndra. Under normal conditions this monthly report would go...
Read MoreBy Carlo Cottarelli via iMFdirect (Guest Post) In the midst of jittery financial markets, and global economic doom and gloom, it’s easy to become pessimistic. Perhaps too much so; amid what seems like a steady...
Read MoreBy Mike “Mish” Shedlock (Guest Post) Todd Martin, an Asia equity strategist at Societe General SA, talks about the outlook for China’s economy and credit market. Martin also discusses global stocks and...
Read MoreBy Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse (Guest Post) New home sales in the United States are on pace to set a brand new all-time record low in 2011. This will be the third year in a row that new home sales...
Read MoreBy Tim Iacono (Guest Post) Standard & Poor’s reported that U.S. home prices rose 0.9 percent in July for their fourth straight big monthly gain, but, after seasonal factors are taken into...
Read MoreBy EconMatters With 14 million Americans unemployed, it is difficult to fathom that there are companies that can not find qualified candidates to fill job vacancies. Oil industry has had a chronic skilled labor shortage...
Read MoreBy Ramki Ramakrishnan (Guest Post) The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.” ~ Henry...
Read MoreBy Willem Weytjens (Guest Post) Let’s start with an update of an article I wrote on July 20th 2011. If the pattern isn’t broken soon, this could mean we are about to see 2008 all over again, and silver...
Read MoreBy Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse (Guest Post) Every single day, we are getting closer to a horrific global water crisis. This world was blessed with an awesome amount of fresh water, but because of our...
Read MoreBy Kurt Cobb (Guest Post) It would be hard for the average person to understand why the vague ramblings of the world’s foremost energy cornucopian, the sweet, smiling, even-tempered Daniel Yergin, could stir up...
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