By Bruce Krasting (Guest Post) I have, on numerous occasions in the past, written an article that took the form of a question to readers. I present some demonstrable facts. Then I pose the question(s), “What do you...
Read MoreBy Central Bank News The past week in monetary policy saw 13 central banks review interest rate levels and monetary policy settings. Those that changed rates were: Belarus +300bps to 30.00%, Kenya +75bps to 7.00%, and India...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes (Guest Post) The domestic stock market was lower this week with the S&P 500 Index down 1.68 percent. The figure below shows the performance of each sector in the index for the week. All sectors decreased....
Read MoreBy Central Bank News (Guest Post) The European Central Bank (ECB) announced the commencement of joint USD liquidity operations: “The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided, in coordination with...
Read MoreBy Doug Short (Guest Post) Here is a table showing the annualized change in Headline and Core CPI for each of the past five months. I’ve also included each of the eight components of Headline CPI and a separate entry for...
Read MoreBy Old New Lefty (Guest Post) The first clue that something was wrong was when I was watching CCTV, the equivalent of CNBC or MSNBC for China. There was a one minute news item about the housing situation, and the reporter had...
Read MoreBy EconMatters Bloomberg reported that Morgan Stanley (MS) published a research analysis in July 2011 predicting America is well on its way to becoming a renter society amid high rate of mortgage delinquency, foreclosures and...
Read MoreChart Source: BZNWZ.com (added by EconMatters) By Mike “Mish” Shedlock (Guest Post) I received this information via email … USD liquidity provisions: EUR relief likely to be temporary The ECB has decided, in...
Read MoreBy Chris Kimble of Kimble Charting Solutions (Guest Post) On May the 18th I pointed out that sometimes it can pay for investors to put their money in a “Shoe Box” and not have their investment assets at risk. Below...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes (Guest Post) In Barron’s last week, Writer Randall Forsyth made the distinction between solid, growing companies and the flailing U.S. economy when he suggested that readers “Buy Stocks, Not Economic Data.”...
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