Jobs, factory data point to slowing economy … Economic data for January and February suggested that growth accelerated in the first quarter after activity almost stalled in the final three months of 2012. But in a replay of the prior two years, the economy appeared to have hit a speed bump at the end of the quarter, with data ranging from employment to retail sales and manufacturing weakenin...Read More
For first time in six years, half of Americans say U.S. running well … A national poll released on Friday found 50 percent of Americans believe the United States is running well, the first time that at least half of respondents answered positively in more than six years. The CNN/ORC International poll asked the question: "How well are things going in the country today – very well,...Read More
The Biggest Economic Experiment Of The Last 5 Years Has Ended In Disaster … The U.K.'s economic story for the past five years has been bleak. Since then there have been two recessions This week again we saw the labor situation deteriorate. Next week we'll find out if the U.K. has entered its first ever triple-dip recession. Economists project the economy will post a tiny 0.1% –...Read More
Meltdown? 15% of world's gold miners face collapse after plunge in price strips $169-billion off market value … Gold's 9.3% plunge on April 15, the biggest one-day drop in New York since March 1980, couldn't have come at a worse time for gold companies. Barrick Gold Corp. and Newmont Mining Corp., the world's two largest producers, are among companies in the FTSE Gold Mines I...Read More
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Insight: Central bankers cast as superheroes with no script … Top central banks have slashed rates to zero, pumped in vast amounts of cash, helped orchestrate bailouts and fired their "big bazookas": buying trillions of dollars of government bonds to calm markets and spur lending and growth. … They also have something governments desperately lack: money. In fact, like modern-...Read More
Bernanke Is One of the Most Consequential Central Bankers of All Time … The Federal Reserve has emerged as one of the most important government entities when it comes to the economy. Many economists credit the Fed with helping the economy recover from The Great Recession. But many politicians – primarily Republicans – criticize the central bank for overreaching and creating more...Read More
Gold's decline shakes the true believers' faith … The dramatic slide in the price of gold in the past week has reversed a rise that for more than a decade has been steady and seemingly inexorable. The sudden fall in which prices plummeted 9 percent, to $1,347.40 an ounce, on Monday, the biggest two-day loss percentage since 1983 – has put goldbugs, who are by definition pessimi...Read More
A huddle over market transparency … The SEC held a fixed income roundtable on Tuesday to discuss two important issues: market structure and ways to improve it for municipal and corporate bonds. The SEC has as much authority to regulate this market as it does for equity securities, and it appears to be finally flexing its muscles with a little structure for the $18.7 trillion fixed income mar...Read More
Insight: Central bankers cast as superheroes with no script … Top central banks have slashed rates to zero, pumped in vast amounts of cash, helped orchestrate bailouts and fired their "big bazookas": buying trillions of dollars of government bonds to calm markets and spur lending and growth. … They also have something governments desperately lack: money. In fact, like modern-...Read More
Bernanke Is One of the Most Consequential Central Bankers of All Time … The Federal Reserve has emerged as one of the most important government entities when it comes to the economy. Many economists credit the Fed with helping the economy recover from The Great Recession. But many politicians – primarily Republicans – criticize the central bank for overreaching and creating more...Read More
Gold's decline shakes the true believers' faith … The dramatic slide in the price of gold in the past week has reversed a rise that for more than a decade has been steady and seemingly inexorable. The sudden fall in which prices plummeted 9 percent, to $1,347.40 an ounce, on Monday, the biggest two-day loss percentage since 1983 – has put goldbugs, who are by definition pessimi...Read More
A huddle over market transparency … The SEC held a fixed income roundtable on Tuesday to discuss two important issues: market structure and ways to improve it for municipal and corporate bonds. The SEC has as much authority to regulate this market as it does for equity securities, and it appears to be finally flexing its muscles with a little structure for the $18.7 trillion fixed income mar...Read More
Watch this video to learn more about the 7th U.S. President, Andrew Jackson.His nickname was Old Hickory, and he was a rough and tough guy.Great tool for student engagement, memorization skills, and another way to look at informational text!Check out the accompanying lesson plan! It's a great addition to the music video, and it makes for an awesome activating strategy. It includes a sample lesson...Read More
In a SPIEGEL interview, Harvard economist Carmen Reinhart argues governments are incapable of reducing their debts and that central banks are now stepping up to resolve the crisis themselves. In the end, she argues, everyday savers will pay the price. Reinhart: No central bank will admit it is keeping rates low to help governments out of their debt crises. But in fact they are bending over backwar...Read More
Gold's fair value is $800 an ounce … Gold's bear market is just beginning. That's the depressing assessment from Claude Erb, a former commodities portfolio manager for Trust Company of the West, and co-author – with Campbell Harvey, a Duke University university finance professor – of an academic study from last June that is looking to be increasingly prophetic. &ndash...Read More
India and Vietnam: Taking the Glitter out of Gold … When uncertainty reigns, investors all over the world turn to gold as a safe haven. But some countries are starting to take issue with their residents' preference for storing wealth in gold bars, rather than bank accounts … Widespread investments in physical gold … mean that large pots of wealth sit idle, instead of being pu...Read More
America needs a new war or capitalism dies Commentary: Low defense spending is killing jobs … America needs a new war? For the economy to survive? Job market to revive? Capitalism thrive? Maybe. Here's why: Forbes reported that GDP data "fell for the first time in three and a half years in the fourth quarter … declining by an annualized 0.1%" while "economists had ex...Read More
In a SPIEGEL interview, Harvard economist Carmen Reinhart argues governments are incapable of reducing their debts and that central banks are now stepping up to resolve the crisis themselves. In the end, she argues, everyday savers will pay the price. Reinhart: No central bank will admit it is keeping rates low to help governments out of their debt crises. But in fact they are bending over backwar...Read More
Gold's fair value is $800 an ounce … Gold's bear market is just beginning. That's the depressing assessment from Claude Erb, a former commodities portfolio manager for Trust Company of the West, and co-author – with Campbell Harvey, a Duke University university finance professor – of an academic study from last June that is looking to be increasingly prophetic. &ndash...Read More