By Andrew Butter (Guest Post) Nouriel Roubini’s big idea was [IF] you spend more than you earn, [THEN] you have to borrow so you can pay your bills; but in those circumstances, [IF] you run out of credit, [THEN] you...
Read MoreBy EconMatters Utility giant American Electric Power (AEP) sent shock wave last week by suggesting consumers could see their electricity bills jump an estimated 40-60% in the next few years. AEP is one of the country’s...
Read MoreBy Ilene (Guest Post) Excerpt from this week’s Stock World Weekly: Greek Theater In spite of all the turmoil in the Eurozone, no matter how bad the situation in Greece seemed to be, or how badly the Euro was battered,...
Read MoreBy EconMatters (Seeking Alpha Exclusive) The advance of new drilling technology (horizontal drilling and fracking) has unlocked 100-year worth of natural gas supplies in U.S. shale formations that was previously considered...
Read MoreBy Stewart Smith The debate of the debt ceiling between the Republicans and the Democrats over the limit to the amount of debt the government can rack up is becoming as interesting as a WWE wrestling match. Treasury Secretary...
Read More(Guest Post) By Kurt Cobb Some things are worth repeating. This piece, which was originally posted in August 2006, takes on added significance given events in Japan where worldwide links in the just-in-time supply chain are...
Read MoreBy Michael Pettis Most of last week’s newsletter was dedicated to a discussion on Chinese debt, specifically on how we should think about the Chinese debt structure and on when would we know how much debt is too much debt....
Read MoreBy Ellen Brown Debate continues to rage between the inflationists who say the money supply is increasing, dangerously devaluing the currency, and the deflationists who say we need more money in the economy to stimulate...
Read MoreBy Dr. Mark J. Perry Although job openings in the U.S. manufacturing sector slipped slightly in April to 230,000 from 235,000 in March, they have remained above 200,000 for four straight months for the first time since the...
Read MoreBy Prieur du Plessis I am on record calling the silver market a Hunt Brothers type of market a few days before the market crashed. Well, it has happened. After soaring to a peak of $49.79 per ounce on 26 April, the silver price...
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