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“Toyota is is big. I wouldn’t be surprised if the IMF downgraded its forecast of Japan based solely on Toyota’s misstep,” said Rebecca Wilder in this interesting guest post. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) The Hidden Lesson in U.S. Gas Exports (Money Morning, 12/9/11) Slowing Exports Give a Preview of China’s 2012 Trade (Wall Street Daily, 12/13/11) How the Yen-Yuan Agreement Benefits the United States (Investment U, 1/12/12)
The one-year anniversary of the stimulus plan has arrived, but not much reason for celebration … [...]  By Prieur du Plessis, on February 23rd, 2010 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money  3 people had their say - chime in!
The February edition of Donald Coxe’s Basic Points research report (subtitled “Hard Rocks and Hard Shocks”) has just been published. His investment recommendations are summarized in this post, but a link to the full report is also provided. [...]
With most of the S&P 500 companies having reported financial results for Q4 2009, the chart below, courtesy of The Chart Store (via The Big Picture), shows how S&P 500 earnings declined by 92% from their Q3 2007 peak to the low of Q1 last year, and then subsequently rebounded by more than [...] More on this topic (What's this?) What a Little-Known Market Tool Is Telling Us About U.S. Stocks in 2012 (Money Morning, 1/11/12) S&P 500 Chart – The Art of Technical Analysis (My Trader's Journal, 1/22/12) S&P 500 Chart – Ascending Triangles (My Trader's Journal, 1/8/12)
Interestingly, the Fed raised the discount rate last week as bank credit for the week contracted by a further $9 billion, bringing the year-to-date decline to $115 billion. It is difficult to see a significant economic recovery without the banks coming to the party. And this begs the question: Is this what the policymakers had in mind when bailing out the banks? [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Out of Answers, Federal Reserve Can Only Offer Empty Rhetoric (Money Morning, 12/13/11) The One Question We Must All Ask Ourselves (Money Morning, 1/5/12) So This Central Banker Walks Into a Bar…. (Crossing Wall Street, 1/12/12)
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses with Paul Maidment where capitalism went wrong and what its future iterations might be like. [...] |
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