Demographic research by the Pew Research Center reveals the troubles younger Americans face when it comes to their personal finances. Could a general lack of savings and financial security be a drag on this generation?
Sep 082010
Sep 052010
Weekly update with investing guru Don Coxe. Don’s commentaries are colorful, insightful and occasionally unusual. Pay attention.
Aug 312010
“This country has very weak safety nets,” Mohamed El Erian, CEO at PIMCO, said in a radio interview today on “Bloomberg Surveillance” with Tom Keene. “It is built on the assumption that our labor markets are very flexible, that if you lose your job in California you move somewhere else, [...]
Aug 292010
BBC Newsnight guests Hugh Hendry and Dr Linda Yueh discuss the importance of the grey dust; BHP Billiton’s hostile takeover bid for Potash Corp; the Chinese market’s dependence on potash imports and the world’s ability to feed itself. Share, Print or PDF
Aug 252010
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Aug 172010
My attempt at humor. Pass this one on to your friends and family.
Joke-telling robots, expensive walking tunnels, Blackberries for smokers, and training American prostitutes to drink responsibly. What do these things have in common? Some of these are real government spending projects in a time when our economy is struggling and people can’t get jobs….which ones are real or fake? Watch to [...]
Aug 112010
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These are haunting images of a housing boom gone bust. Beautiful, mostly new, homes and estates (subdivisions) in Ireland left to rot as they remain empty. “Ireland Ghost Estates – Images by Kim Haughton Share, Print or PDF
Aug 052010
For those wondering why deflation is such a big deal, here’s a short video summarizing the issue. Below I’ve also included Irving Fisher’s classic 1933 paper “The Debt Deflation Theory of Great Depressions”. In his paper Fisher outlines the typical stages of the collapse of a credit boom (quite applicable [...]
Jul 312010
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Jul 262010
Don Hays, founder of Hays Advisory Group, discusses his view of the European bank stress tests, and the prospects of a double-dip recession.
Jul 252010
In 2005, Raghuram Rajan was one of the first to publicly predict the global financial crisis three years later. Now he is focused on how to prevent the next one.
This is an absolute must listen. These are probably the best podcasts you’ll listen to all year.
