By EconMatters The public debt of the United States has increased by over $500 billion each year since fiscal year (FY) 2003, and as of September, 2011, the gross debt was about $14.7 trillion, of which closed to $10 trillion...
Read MoreBy EconMatters Americans have been card players for ages, whether it is playing card games after Thanksgiving Dinner with Grandma for pennies or watching Doyle Brunson play in the World Series of Poker on ESPN, Poker has become...
Read MoreBy Vitaliy N. Katsenelson (Guest Post) I was going to write something smart and pithy about this recent market decline, but then I realized that I’ve written about this in the past (more than once). So here is an excerpt...
Read MoreBy David Banister (via Chris Vermeulen) (Guest Post) I got a bit of hate e-mail over the last few weeks from the Gold Bugs who thought I didn’t know what I was talking about when I forecasted a multi-month...
Read MoreBy Doug Short (Guest Post) The two charts below offer clues for evaluating the risk of profit margin squeeze in the current economy. One is the ratio of crude to finished goods in the Producer Price Index. The other is an...
Read MoreBy Spyros Andreopoulos, Morgan Stanley (via Prieur du Plessis) (Guest Post) Mr. Strickland: I noticed your band is on the roster for the dance auditions after school today. Why even bother, McFly? You don’t have a...
Read MoreBy Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse (Guest Post) For a moment, imagine that there is a privately-owned organization in the United States that can create U.S. dollars out of thin air whenever it wants and can loan...
Read MoreBy Jason Tillberg of Tillberg Capital Management (via Doug Short)(Guest Post) Back in February of this year, I wrote an article about why I felt Corporate Profit margins were likely to fall in the coming years ahead. There...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes (Guest Post) Did you know that China’s energy demand is set to grow so dramatically over the next 25 years that its consumption is expected to be 68 percent higher than that of the U.S.?...
Read MoreBy Chris Vermeulen (Guest Post) What a trading session Wednesday was with the FOMC meeting and the FED coming out leaving the Fed Funds Rate unchanged at 0.25% and saying the economy is looking weak and will not...
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