By Mike Norman via Global Economic Intersection (Guest Post) The Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee (TBAC) consults with the US Treasury and advises them on the strength of the US economy (I thought the Fed is charged with...
Read MoreBy Michael Pettis (Guest Post) I have already discussed last month why I think the desperate attempts by Europe to get China and other Asian and BRIC countries to bail out the weak sovereign borrowers is absurd, but the topic...
Read MoreBy Tim Iacono (Guest Post) A recent Pew Research survey(.pdf) shows how difficult things have become for the long-term unemployed, particularly if you are over 55 and have little or no higher education. Almost 32 percent of the...
Read MoreBy Chris Vermeulen & JW Jones (Guest Post) With all eyes on the unemployment report and Europe, the CME Group’s PR Department nearly created an all out panic with their announcement after the market close on Friday...
Read MoreBy Charles Rotblut (Guest Post) “In 30-Year Race, Bonds Beat Stocks,” read a headline on Blooomberg.com earlier this week. No, you did not read that wrong. Jim Bianco, president of Bianco Research, calculated an...
Read MoreBy Stan Abrams (Guest Post) You may recall a brief comment I made some time ago about U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf and his misguided attempt to stop all science and technology cooperation between China and the U.S., in particular...
Read MoreBy. John C.K. Daly (Guest Post) On 28 October Air China conducted its first trial flight of a passenger jet powered by a mix of biofuel and traditional aviation fuel. The Jet A-1 biofuel kerosene used in the flight was derived...
Read MoreBy EconMatters There was nothing really new out of the 2-day FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting on Nov. 1-2 without much indication to the widely anticipated further quantitative easing (QE3). For now, the FOMC has...
Read MoreBy Michael Snyder (Guest Post) How does a country end up 15 trillion dollars in debt 30 years ago, we were just a little over a trillion dollars in debt. How in the world do supposedly rational people living in “the...
Read MoreBy Energy Burrito (Guest Post) In the TV show ‘How I Met Your Mother’, there is an episode which deals with the condition ‘Revertigo’. This occurs when you are reminded of something from the past, and it...
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