Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and co-CIO of Pimco – the world’s largest fixed-income manager, says the new normal for industrial countries is low growth, re-regulation and deleveraging. It certainly appears the case as far as mature...
Read MoreMarc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report, talks with Bloomberg about the outlook for U.S. stocks.Faber says global stocks are in a “correction period” and believes the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index could...
Read MoreThis post is a guest contribution by Paul Kasriel* of The Northern Trust CompanyMore and more we are hearing that occupants of residential real estate with mortgages far in excess of the current market value of the real estate...
Read MoreSource: Comics.com, Pat Bagley, Comics.com, May 25, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
Read MoreSource: Matt, Telegraph, May 21, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
Read MoreResearch beginning in the late 1980s documents the empirical regularity that the slope of the yield curve is a reliable predictor of future real economic activity. “Today, a substantial body of evidence exists from which various...
Read MoreOver the past few weeks I have often posted articles about the behavior of the Chinese stock market. With the Shanghai Composite Index (SSEC) now having declined by 23.3% since its peak of November 2010, it would seem that...
Read MoreThis week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at whether or not, as Western economies collapse under the weight of all their debt, China can save the world economy.In the second half of the show (starting at 12: minutes),...
Read MoreSource: Michael Ramirez, Comics.com, May 11, 2010.Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
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