By Bruce Krasting (Guest Post) The Congressional Budget Office came out with its annual review of Social Security (SS). I write on this topic often, so I feel somewhat obligated to comment on the report. Amid the...
Read MoreBy Tim Iacono (Guest Post) More signs that America’s home ownership society is on an inexorable path back toward a higher percentage of renters come via two news reports, the first being this Washington Post story...
Read MoreBy Kurt Cobb (Guest Post) Back in May in response to a question during an interview I suggested that when the sovereign debt of a major nation is finally questioned, it will signal the endgame for the worldwide...
Read MoreBy Charles Rotblut (Guest Post) The market can be finicky over the short term. This has particularly been the case over the past few days, with stock prices fluctuating widely. Some stocks have been excessively volatile. Take...
Read MoreBy Doug Short (Guest Post) The world selloff continued last week, with six of the seven world markets we’ve been tracking finishing the week with a loss. The FTSE was the solitary market with a gain, and it has...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes (Guest Post) Inflationary expectations and a global economic slowdown haven’t been able to extinguish consumption of goods in China. The retail sector is expected to grow up to 35 percent in 2011 with sales...
Read MoreBy EconMatters This week has turned out to be Wall Street’s wildest week since 2008. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 519 points on Tuesday, Aug. 10, but then went up 423.37 points. But overall, Down has...
Read MoreBy Doug Short (Guest Post) Below is the latest weekend update from Serge Perreault, a Chartered Accountant and market technician located near Montreal, Canada. Serge has been following the U.S. market in a series of weekly...
Read MoreBy Andrew Butter (Guest Post) There are many theories about how to value the US Stock market (as a whole); some said that stocks were 40% over priced in May 2009, same story in August 2011. All it took was the hilarious...
Read MoreBy Central Bank News (Guest Post) The past week in monetary policy was rocked by the turmoil in global sentiment in the wake of the US sovereign credit rating downgrade, and heightened concerns about contagion in the...
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