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Bitcoin Continues To Sink Despite Bullish Bets by Big Banks

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Optimism on the Horizon: Positive Trends in the UK Economy

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Finance

A Look At Oil Rich Venezuela’s Shrinking Economy

Feb 07, 2011 at 07:47 | David Caploe PhD

In booming South America, oil-rich Venezuela is the exception: the continent's only shrinking economy in 2010. Officials are rationing hard currency. Government takeovers of private businesses are increasing. One prominent…

Be Careful - It’s Not Easy to Get Rich Quick!

Feb 04, 2011 at 16:39 | Sy Harding

Over the last decade investors and home-owners experienced a series of brutal beatings in what was historically a very short period of time. Many investors took heavy losses in the…

Bernanke's Response To Commodity Price Inflation Accusation

Feb 04, 2011 at 09:17 | David Beckworth

Bernanke responds today to the accusation that the commodity price boom is being caused by U.S. monetary policy: Supply and demand abroad for commodities, not U.S. monetary policy, are…

Capital Leaving Middle East Looking For Safe Havens In Hard Assets and Oil

Feb 02, 2011 at 13:07 | Jeb Handwerger

Last week I warned of a flare-up in Egypt and a reversal in oil and gold. The media are transmitting pictures of street scenes in Egypt that for the most…

Egypt’s Problems and Their Affect on the Rest of the World

Feb 02, 2011 at 09:35 | Gail Tverberg

We have all been reading about Egypt in the newspapers, and wonder what is behind their problems. Let me offer a few insights. At least part of Egypt’s problem is…

Swiss Banks in for a Pounding Over Banking Secrecy – Why you Should Go Long Gold

Feb 01, 2011 at 09:01 | Bruce Krasting

The blow up in Egypt is going to create ripples all over the globe. It will certainly be disruptive for equities and the dollar. It will influence global bond yields…

Baltic Dry Index Set for a Big Fall?

Jan 28, 2011 at 09:34 | Bruce Krasting

A friend calls from Athens this morning moaning and groaning about the sorry state of the shipping industry. I ask, “What’s new that makes you so grumpy?” He points me…

A Look at Pakistan’s Deep Economic Weaknesses

Jan 28, 2011 at 09:30 | Ed Dolan

In a recent White House meeting with President Asif Ali Zadari of Pakistan, US President Barack Obama underscored the importance of the US-Pakistani relationship and emphasized continued US support for…

When will the Commodities and Chinese Real Estate Bubbles Pop?

Jan 27, 2011 at 07:11 | Kurt Cobb

During a presentation last week a questioner asked me what I thought about predictions that gasoline prices would reach $5 a gallon this summer. I offered this critique. I said…

Another Nail in the Market’s Coffin

Jan 27, 2011 at 06:51 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

I think it was very interesting not to see what happened today, but what didn’t. The Federal Reserve announced that it would continue its purchase of $600 billion in debt…

Watch out for the Black Swans

Jan 26, 2011 at 07:36 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

It is not my intention to ruin your day. But I may well do that if you read this piece. While traders pile on their longs with reckless abandon, and…

Buying Straw Hats in the Dead of Winter

Jan 25, 2011 at 07:09 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

I am one of those demented people who buys flood insurance when the sun is shining and sun tan lotion by the gallon from Costco in the dead of winter.…

Is Now a Good Time to Pay Down Your Debts?

Jan 25, 2011 at 06:58 | Gail Tverberg

The question of whether a person should pay down debts comes up often, when there are forecasts that suggest unemployment rates and consequently debt defaults will rise dramatically in future…

The Difficulties of Investing in China

Jan 21, 2011 at 07:13 | David Caploe PhD

As China President Hu Jintao visits President Obama and the rest of the US, most of the attention will be focused -- in our view, wrongly -- on the dollar…

The Municipal Bond Myth

Jan 20, 2011 at 16:50 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

Have I seen This movie before? Two years ago, analysts were predicting default rates as high as 17% for Junk bonds in the wake of the financial meltdown, taking yields…

The Yuan and The Dollar: Obama and Chinese President to Discuss Currency Concerns

Jan 20, 2011 at 06:38 | RFE/RL staff

"More longer-term, China would like to see the renminbi rival the U.S. dollar's status as a global reserve currency. But this is going to take a long time," Leather says.…

Is a Weak Dollar Really a Bad Thing?

Jan 15, 2011 at 09:00 | Ed Dolan

One of the top themes for 2010 in economics, politics, and diplomacy was the damage being done to the U.S. economy by an undervalued Chinese yuan. As the yuan began…

Is the Dollar’s Reserve Currency Status Being Threatened?

Jan 14, 2011 at 08:41 | David Beckworth

Randall W. Forsyth points to two recent developments as part of a broader change in the global monetary system: The new world monetary order continued to evolve with two…

Is it Possible for the US Dollar to Rise 50%

Jan 13, 2011 at 08:02 | Charles Hugh Smith

Conventional wisdom is that the Fed wants the U.S. dollar lower, so it must drop. But the dollar seems to be lacking proper obedience to the Fed's grand commands. Before…

The Case Against Treasury Bonds

Jan 12, 2011 at 17:33 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

If you want to delve into the case against the future of US Treasury bonds in all its glory, take a look at the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs, the…

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