By Bruce Krasting My kind of story in the Swiss papers today. I love it when big shot central bankers get their dirty laundry made public. Kashya, the wife of Phillip Hilldebrand (head of the Swiss National Bank) sold Swiss...
Read MoreBy. John C.K. Daly Taiwan imports 99 percent of its energy, which is vital to its rapidly industrializing economy. The island nation’s electricity demand was recently growing at almost 5 percent per year, but this is...
Read MoreBy Prieur du Plessis The charts below, courtesy of Bianco Research (via The Big Picture), show U.S. private, government and total debt in both nominal terms (top graph) and as a percentage of GDP (bottom graph). In short, the...
Read MoreBy Martin Hutchinson, Global Investing Strategist Money Morning Don’t let the headlines fool you, there’s lots of money to be made in global investing in 2012. You’re just going to have to be careful –...
Read MoreBy Central Bank News The past week in monetary policy saw just three central banks meeting to review monetary policy settings. Israel held its interest rate at 2.75%, and Taiwan held its interest rate at 1.875% during its...
Read MoreBy William Kurtz, CandleWave LLC The Great Rally of 2009 came to an end on May 2, 2011. It was the greatest rally ever seen in the stock market. At its end, it had retraced almost 80% of the decline from the all-time market top...
Read MoreBy Louise Basenese of Wall Street Daily You’ll recall, each week I embrace the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. And I select a graphic or two to convey an important economic or investment idea. Last week, I...
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge A few weeks ago we discussed the pressure the Greeks were under to source their energy needs from Iran since no one else would extend them credit. The European credit strain contagion now appears to...
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge With year end fund flows making absolutely no sense for the most part, thank you global central planning, as the euro plunges and the market refuses to follow, with risk assets rising on speculation...
Read MoreBy Michael Snyder If you spend much time watching the mainstream news, then you know how incredibly vapid it can be. It is amazing how they can spend so much time saying next to nothing. There seems to be a huge reluctance to...
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