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The property lobby consistently argues that the driving force beneath rising house prices is a rising population. Even a cursory examination of the data shows that this is not true, argues Steven Keen, associate professor of economics and finance at the University of Western Sydney. The real force is accelerating mortgage debt, as he explains in this video. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Market Update May 9, 2011 (Dividend Stocks, 5/9/11) The population-house price myth, according to Steven Keen (Wall Street Sector Selector, 6/13/11) The Economy and Bond Market Radar (January 9, 2012) (GreenLightAdvisor Views, 1/8/12)
“Basically, we are pushing out the timing of the expected exit sequencing by 3-6 months relative to what we had previously thought. The logic is that the old path was simply looking too compressed, given the emergence of questions surrounding the sustainability of the recovery,” said David Greenlaw of Morgan Stanley in this guest contribution. [...] More on this topic (What's this?) Out of Answers, Federal Reserve Can Only Offer Empty Rhetoric (Money Morning, 12/13/11) The Fed Says They’ll Finish the “Quantitative Easing” Round (Learn Mining News, 4/28/11) How to Win Bernanke's War on Savers with a 19% Yield (Money Morning, 1/18/12) 
Jim Bianco, president of Bianco Research, and Sassan Ghahramani, chief executive officer at SGH Macro Advisors, discuss the outlook for Federal Reserve and European Central Bank monetary policy. Bianco and Ghahramani, speaking with Carol Massar on Bloomberg Television, also discuss the stock market and economy. [...]
By Cees Bruggemans, Chief Economist of FNB. Where have the last 20 years gone? Gone in a flash or so it feels. Much has happened. Much has also not happened, some of it as a matter of choice. We read that if South Africa had consistently invested in [...] |
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