By Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions The Group of 20 ended Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 in South Korea without any meaningful agreement on rising global tensions over trade and currency issues. Despite President Obama...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions It seems the panic time for both green enthusiasts and peak oil pundits. According to a new paper by two researchers at the University of California – Davis, it would take 131...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions While most are anxiously anticipating a grand currency showdown at the G20 summit in Seoul this month, rare earths is bound to be one act of the G20 high Korean Drama amid the...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions Over the past month or so, world`s focus, currency markets in particular, has been centered mainly on the U.S. over QE2, the November elections, and the Job`s Report. As such,...
Read MorePosted by Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions The following is a repost of an article by Ms. Wooty Sixel, a noted business columnist for the Houston Chronicle, where I was part of a four-expert panel discussing...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions Despite the recent price surge in crude oil this week, basically going from $81.50 to $87 a barrel within this week–thanks to a Fed’s QE2-induced weak dollar–...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions Global markets freaked out on Tuesday primarily due to the following events: U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner’s speech on Monday pledging “The United States and no country...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions The United States economy grew at a sluggish annual rate of 2 percent in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported last Friday. On the bright side, the economy is...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report, discusses the potential impact of further quantitative easing (QE2) by the U.S. Federal Reserve in a Bloomberg...
Read MoreBy Dian L. Chu, Economic Forecasts & Opinions The Icelandic financial crisis has been ongoing since 2008 when all three of the country’s major commercial banks collapsed after they failed to refinancing their...
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