Ready for the ol’ “good news/bad news” message? First the good news. It isn’t intelligence or lack of information that is preventing you from doing better with your stock investments. Now the bad news: Rather it’s your emotions. And the bigger the stakes, the more likely it is that your emotions will
Next time a talking head on TV refers to copper prices as a surefire sign that the global economy is doing fine or about to expire, take it with a giant grain of salt. They clearly haven’t been paying attention to the latest developments regarding copper. The red metal, dubbed “Dr. Copper”
The media likes to talk about how badly America is doing. They tell you that unemployment is horrible. People are getting paid less than they used to. And Americans are strapped with too much debt. And while all of that is true, there are still some good things going on in our
The U.S. economy gets a bad rap. We’re not growing as fast as the emerging markets. And the mortgage crisis really blew up our banks – and nearly the entire global monetary system. But a peculiar thing has happened in the last few months. The U.S. economy’s manufacturing sector is suddenly doing
The headline dollar amount from China is a whopper: $1.7 trillion to be spent on clean technology and hi-tech sectors. Wow!
Spain comes from the heart of Europe and was considered one of the continent’s proudest economic success stories.
Many in India think the worst of inflation is behind them and beginning next year it will improve. That’s good. Because high interest rates are making it tough on everybody in India, from the banks whose cost of borrowing is high to consumers put off by the high interest of borrowing.
The OECD is predicting a global slowdown. No major economy is exempt. Now that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody.
