By Economy Watch Hong Kong has edged out the United States and the United Kingdom, for the first time, to come out tops in the World Economic Forum’s Financial Development Index. According to the Geneva-based...
Read MoreBy Hugh Bredenkamp (via iMFDirect) Governments in low-income countries are having to deal with a lot of bad news these days. Slow growth in the advanced economies is dampening demand for their exports and affecting inflows of...
Read MoreBy Michael Snyder If the U.S. economy is improving, then why is child poverty in America absolutely exploding? If we are experiencing “economic growth”, then why are more than half of all children in major U.S....
Read MoreBy Phil of Phil’s Stock World Do Ben Bernanke and I live on different planets? “For a lot of people,” he said during a speech at Fort Bliss, “I know it doesn’t feel like the recession ever...
Read MoreBy Lauren Goodrich at Stratfor Global Intelligence Tensions between the United States and Russia have risen in the past month over several long-standing problems, including ballistic missile defense (BMD) and supply lines into...
Read MoreBy Chris Vermeulen It’s that time of year again and I’m not talking about the holiday season… What I am talking about is another major market correction which has been starting to unfold over the past couple...
Read MoreBy. John C.K. Daly Economic South Asian superpower India has firmly embraced solar power, advancing the target date by five years for selling solar-generated electricity at the same rate as electricity generated by fossil fuel...
Read MoreBy Bruce Krasting We have a week left to resolve the issue of extending the 2% break on Social Security taxes (FICA & SECA). I still think there will be a last minute fix on this; it’s too important. Without this tax...
Read MoreBy Prieur du Plessis I am a few days late with this commentary as a result of a rather hectic schedule after my return from New York. But rather late than never … My seasonally adjusted GDP-weighted composite CFLP PMI for...
Read MoreBy Roberto De Primis Tough times bring opportunities, even in the real estate (RE) market. In Europe, according to the last CBRE analysis (http://www.cbre.eu/), during the first half of 2011, real estate investment volumes were...
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