By Gail Tverberg Are lower oil prices good news? Not really, if it means the world is sinking into recession. We know from recent past experience and from common sense that higher oil prices are a drag oil importing economies,...
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge We recently commented in detail on (and often discuss) the extreme high correlations across not just asset-classes but across all individual stocks. As Goldman notes correlations across equities...
Read MoreBy Louis Basenese of Wall Street Daily The Housing Bust is Over! Prediction: In early February, I boldly proclaimed that the U.S. residential real estate market hit rock bottom. Proof: The latest reading of the...
Read MoreBy Michael Snyder What is the second half of 2012 going to bring? Are things going to get even worse than they are right now? Unfortunately, that appears more likely with each passing day. I will admit that I am extremely...
Read MoreBy Mike “Mish” Shedlock Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, spoke with Bloomberg Television’s Betty Liu on July 2, and said that, “If I were running Germany, I would have abandoned...
Read MoreBy David Coady and Sanjeev Gupta (viaiMFDirect) The issue of rising income inequality is now at the forefront of public debate. There is growing concern as to the economic and social consequences of the steady, and often sharp,...
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge Between macro-economic ‘religious’ experiences, regulatory uncertainty, and legislative gyrations, the world appears to be a very different place now than before 2008. It seems that from...
Read MoreBy Tim Iacono It should be interesting to see if/how long the market rally that began last Friday lasts. Based on a cursory review of the available related financial news, it seems that more pundits are urging caution than...
Read MoreBy Online College Blog Did you know, the average college student graduates with about $22,000 in debt? The problem is, most of these students qualify for essentially free money for college but never apply. So, to help these and...
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge The EU summit to save the Euro (the nineteenth, or thereabouts) has, quite remarkably, agreed to do something to try and save the Euro. The whole build-up and conclusion to this summit have brought a...
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