Posted on: November 16, 2011
Spain comes from the heart of Europe and was considered one of the continent’s proudest economic success stories.
Tags: debt, Indonesia, Spain
Category: Emerging Markets | International Markets | Top Stories | US Treasury
Posted on: September 5, 2011
In an interview with NPR, former Reagan economic adviser Laurence Kotlikoff said the U.S.’s “true indebtedness” amounts to $211 trillion.
Tags: $211, $211 Trillion, Business Insider, debt, deficit, Joe Weisenthal, Laurence Kotlikoff, medicaid, medicare, Social Security
Category: The Economy | The Federal Reserve | The Politics of Investing | Top Stories | U.S. Investing | US Economy | US Treasury
Posted on: September 1, 2011
Can Presidential hopeful Rick Perry and cohorts Paul Ryan, Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul scare Bernanke out of more quantitative easing? History says…
Tags: aul Ryan, Bernanke, debt, dollar, Michele Bachmann, QE, QE3, quantitative easing, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, taxes
Category: The Federal Reserve | Top Stories | U.S. Investing | US Dollar and Forex | US Economy | US Government News | Washington News
Posted on: August 8, 2011
The weekend did NOTHING to calm investor’s nerves. The “Dr. Phil” of the markets, gold, is making huge gains today. And leading the way is a group of investors who refuse to buy gold but will reap billions from gold’s big spike.
Tags: bear, Bull, debt, dollar, gold, market crash, risk
Category: Commodities | Commodities Corner | Gold, Silver, and Precious Metals | Top Stories | Wall Street News
Posted on: August 8, 2011
Don’t tell me you expected the market to keep on going up despite everything that’s going on in the US and Europe. This isn’t the end of the spate of bad news.
Tags: bear, bond, bond vigilantes, Bull, China, debt, debt crisis, EU, Europe, recession
Category: Asia Investing | Europe Investing | The Economy | Top Stories | U.S. Investing | US Dollar and Forex | US Economy | Wall Street News
Posted on: July 29, 2011
August 3rd doesn’t represent the end of the world. And a 1-notch downgrade isn’t going to keep foreign investors away from US Bonds. Find out why that’s a shame.
Tags: debt, debt ceiling, Fitch, Moody's, Rating Agencies, S&P
Category: The Federal Reserve | US Dollar and Forex | US Economy | US Government News | Washington News
Posted on: July 25, 2011
The markets are falling everywhere you look but they should be falling much faster. It’s as if people outside the US can’t believe a bad ending could happen…
Tags: Asia, Asia markets, debt, debt ceiling, Hillary Clinton, Hong Kong, us debt, US debt ceiling
Category: Asia Investing | Emerging Markets | Europe Investing | Gold, Silver, and Precious Metals | Top Stories | U.S. Investing | US Economy | Washington News
Posted on: July 21, 2011
At 67,024 pages long our tax code is a joke. Listen, the one thing I want from the current impasse on the debt ceiling is a simpler tax code…
Tags: debt, IRS, us debt, US taxes
Category: US Economy | US Government News | Washington News
