By EconMatters After the debt deal is done, I think the biggest suspense of the markets is whether the U.S. will get a downgrade from its current AAA rating by one or more of the three major credit rating agencies....
Read MoreBy EconMatters The U.S. debt ceiling political soap has finally come to an end. With the debt deal done, the U.S. has dodged a major bullet of a debt default, but may not be out of the woods yet for a sovereign credit downgrade....
Read MoreBy Stan Abrams (Guest Post) In My Fair Lady, Professor Henry Higgins laments “Why Can’t A Woman Be More Like A Man?” In his mind, since men are obviously superior, women would better themselves by adopting male...
Read MoreBy Michael Pettis (Guest Post) I have been arguing for a while that as long as the Chinese government retains its capacity to raise debt we are not going to see a sharp slowdown in economic growth – at...
Read MoreBy Ellen Brown (Guest Post) The debt ceiling crisis can be averted by enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment, which mandates the government to pay its debts already incurred, including pensions. That means Social Security,...
Read MoreBy Ilene (Guest Post) With less than two days left before the Treasury Department had said the nation would default, on Sunday night, President Obama announced that U.S. House and Senate had approved an agreement to raise...
Read MoreBy Chris Vermeulen (Guest Post) Over the past seven trading sessions we have seen stocks plummet in price because of the debt issues in the United States. I think a lot of individuals including myself thought that a bill...
Read MoreBy EconMatters China SignPost did an interesting analysis on the top eight cities of China based on economic output. The study finds China’s eight largest cities still trail the eight largest U.S. cities substantially in...
Read MoreBy Andrew Butter (Guest Post) No sooner was a “deal” (of sorts) structured for Greece than the vultures turned their attention to Italy, and the familiar double negative feedback loop started. First the cost of...
Read MoreBy Stan Abrams (Guest Post) At last count, there have been roughly 192.6 million news stories in one week written in English about the fake Apple store in Kunming. Articles have appeared in all of the wire services and major...
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