Author: Dian Chu

By Arthur Carvalho of Morgan Stanley (via Investment Postcards)(Guest Post) Brazil’s central bank’s 25bp rate hike last week brought the Selic rate to 12.5%.  But in contrast with most Brazil watchers, we...

By Bruce Krasting (Guest Post) We’re coming down to the wire on the debt limit. “Hard” deals are now being put on the table. The Republicans have said all along they don’t want any new taxes. But...

By Frank Holmes (Guest Post) While much of Europe’s economy remains stuck in the mud, Turkey expanded 11 percent during the first quarter of 2011. In fact, Turkey’s economic growth outpaced China’s this quarter...

By Ilene  (Guest Post) One line of reasoning from the “no tax hikes” crowd in the debt ceiling debate is the inaccurate premise that the very wealthy, the top 0.1%, are job creators. If they’re...

By Frank Holmes (Guest Post) Copper slightly disappointed investors, ending the first half of the year with a decline of 3.50 percent. Worries about global inflation and, more specifically, the potential slowing of China’s...

By EconMatters Scanning the news headlines, the hits seem to just keep on coming on the jobs front. The nationwide unemployment rate increase to 9.2% from 9.1% over the month. The unemployment rate also increased in 28 out of 50...

By Ilene (Guest Post) F. Scott Fitzgerald once said: “The rich are different than you and me – they have more money.” As Bill Domhoff pointed out, when we talk about the rich, we don’t mean the top 1%...