This post is a guest contribution by James Pressler* of Northern Trust Company. We are just over six months into this global financial crisis, and most major economies have yet to get back on their feet. Yet somehow, the numbers...
Read MoreVideo footage this week centered around the G20 meeting, the FASB’s decision to relax mark-to-market accounting rules, the Detroit drama, the Geithner plan to remove toxic assets from banks’ balance sheets, and the...
Read MoreIn late February, Euro Pacific President Peter Schiff interviewed Marc Faber by telephone from his office in Hong Kong. Born and educated in Switzerland, Faber is editor and publisher of “The Gloom, Boom & Doom...
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Read MoreThe Business Section of the St Peterburg Times asked readers for ideas on “How Would You Fix the Economy?”. This was the “best” idea: Dear Mr President Patriotic retirement There are about 40 million...
Read MoreHas an avalanche of policy actions and bank guarantees backstopped the global economy? If stock markets are a gauge of better tidings, it would seem that a bottoming phase might have started. But the jury is still out on whether...
Read MoreSince investment strategist Donald Coxe’s departure from BMO towards the end of last year, I have been inundated with enquiries about whether his much-revered “Basic Points” research reports would still be...
Read MoreI will find myself in New York City and La Jolla over the next few days, meeting with business associates and friends, and trying to first-hand gauge the economic temperature in the US. Posting will be slow while I am on the...
Read MoreFollowing Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s “money printing” announcement of last week, the action stayed on Capitol Hill with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner detailing his Public Private Investment Program...
Read MoreThis post is a guest contribution by Paul Kasriel* of Northern Trust Company. Last week the Fed announced that it would purchase $300 billion of longer-maturity Treasury securities. The mainstream media got all excited, talking...
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