By EconMatters, Aug. 22, 2012 The Fed Minutes are from the July 31-August 1 meeting, this was before they latest run-up in asset prices. For example, WTI was $88 dollars a barrel then, now it is $98 and with the new asset prices...
Read MoreBy Stan Abrams I spent a summer at a think tank in Washington, D.C. a number of years ago as a grad school intern, and one of the things I learned about those places, and their brethren in academic institutions, is the...
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge Some in the markets think that the Fed effectively targets equity prices, meaning that to predict Fed policy, one merely needs to track the US stock market. There is a curious circularity to this...
Read MoreBy Bruce Vanderveen via Investing Daily There is an old aphorism on Wall Street: no one rings a bell to signal a market top or bottom. It’s late August and the markets are relatively calm. European leaders have issued...
Read MorePlatts Energy Week via Commodities Now The persistent drought across the U.S. that has sharply reduced this year’s corn crop is not a sufficient reason to grant waivers from the country’s Renewable Fuel Standard (...
Read MoreBy Mindful Money via QFinance We’ve seen a number of spikes in food prices lately and the most recent is being blamed on the worst drought in 50 years in the US. Conditions in Europe haven’t been much better and even...
Read MoreBy Louis Basenese of Wall Street Daily A recent article by MarketWatch’s Rex Crum floated the idea that Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) should put its cash to work and buy Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX). His rationale couldn’t be more...
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge By now it should be painfully clear to involved that the Greek economy is nothing but a zombie, whose funding shortfalls and other deficit needs are sustained each month only courtesy of constantly...
Read MoreBy Bruce Krasting The Federal Reserve Bank of NY put out a research paper that must have pissed off Bernanke and the other Fed doves. Here is a Link to the Fed report, and another Link to a Bloomberg article with a good...
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge A key sticking point in the ongoing presidential debate is what happens to US tax rates, either for just those making over an arbitrary $250,000/year, aka “the rich”, or for everyone. To...
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