By Doug Short (Guest Post) The world selloff continued last week, with all seven of the markets we’ve been tracking finishing the week with a loss — some quite severe. The DAX was the biggest loser, down 8.63%. It’s...
Read MoreBy: Bruce Krasting (Guest Post) Christina Romer is one on the leading liberal economist in the nation. She’s no dummy. Valedictorian from Princeton, PHD from MIT, former Chairperson of the Council of Obama’s council...
Read MoreBy: Frank Holmes (Guest Post) Call it choppy, volatile, fickle or lively, market action continued to disappoint this week. Frightened investors pulled out more than $40 billion from long-term mutual funds for the week ended...
Read MoreBy: Bruce Krasting (Guest Post) I look at the financial statements of the big banks. 10-Qs and the like. I’ve concluded that, for the most part, it’s a waste of time. There are usually 70 or so pages of numbers and...
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: Charles Rotblut (Guest Post) Today was another rough day for the markets. My crystal ball is not good enough to predict where a bottom will be but, so far, the fear about what could happen (e.g., a double-dip recession) has...
Read MoreBy Central Bank News (Guest Post) The past week in monetary policy saw just 5 central banks meeting to review monetary policy settings.  Those that changed interest rates were: Iceland +25bps to 4.50% and Georgia -25bps to...
Read MoreBy Ellen Brown (Guest Post) What just happened in the stock market? Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose or fell by at least 400 points for four straight days, a stock market first. The worst drop was on Monday,...
Read MoreBy Andrew Butter (Guest Post) The irony of the U.S. sovereign credit downgrade is that the whole reason the Big Three US rating agencies exist is that they were granted a lucrative concession (by the government) to pontificate...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes (Guest Post) During the second quarter, gold’s rising value didn’t deter Chinese and Indian buyers. In its webcast, the World Gold Council (WGC) said these “predominant drivers” of gold demand accounted for “52...
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