This post is a guest contribution by Dian Chu, market analyst, trader and author of the Economic Forecasts and Opinions blog. According to a gauge derived from data compiled by the American Association of Individual Investors...
Read MoreSource: Mike Lester, February 27, 2010. Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail.
Read MoreShrugging off some lingering reminders of the credit crisis and recession, investors last week marked the one-year anniversary of the bear market low by pushing many benchmark equity indices to cycle highs. Wall Street scaled...
Read MoreThe Roosevelt Institute recently hosted an investment conference, Make Markets Be Markets, in New York City. All the presentations are posted on Vimeo, icluding speakers such as George Soros, Joseph Stiglitz, Simon Johnson, Jim...
Read MoreIt would not take too much guessing to figure out where the bulk of the world’s construction activity is taking place. Of course, it is in China, but who would have thought global construction would decline from a year-on-year...
Read MoreDylan Ratigan talks with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer about the release of a 2,200 page report laying out a potential criminal case against Lehman Brothers, whose collapse led to a major financial meltdown. Visit msnbc.com...
Read MoreThe image below shows the national debt history of the US as a credit card statement. The Congressional Budget Office said this week (via Bloomberg) publicly held debt will zoom to $20.3 trillion, amounting to 90% of GDP, by...
Read MoreAre deficit hawks right about the dangers of mounting government debt? Or, is pursuing fiscal sustainability a recipe for continuing the economy’s downward spiral? BNN speaks to Marshall Auerback, fund manager, RAB Capital....
Read MoreAn interesting chart comes from the Consumer Metrics Institute (via Clusterstock – Chart of the Day) that constructs a US consumption index based on actual transactions data for a range of major discretionary purchases...
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