Inflation is dead, according to the latest CPI figures. But you may want to protect yourself from it, just in case. Many people now are asking why gold, the traditional hedge against inflation, now costs more than it ever has in the ...READ»
Just a quick test post for the online stock trading community - markets rose again ! They have been rising steadily and inexorably since March 2009 but I still think we are going to see a major correction soon - probably in October.READ»
What is your stock market prediction for the next 18 months? Do you see a renewal of the next big bull market, a clawing by an angry bear or just a sideways float until things recover?READ»
Google has created a service that tracks Americans' search queries as compared to market growth--and it works.
The project, called Google Domestic Trends, is an outgrowth of the company's lead economist's research into whether Google ...READ»
In troubled times, investors are as desperate as ever to find a financial advisor they can trust. Good news--I found him! Warren Buffett? No. Jim Cramer? Please. I'm talking about Tiger Woods.READ»
30 January 2009
Jose D. Roncal
www.financialspeculation.com
Lawmakers are looking for a quick fix for the banking and credit markets. No fix will be clean or easy. Every option comes with big hits to taxpayers, partisan bickering ...READ»
Arrogance will never die of course, but hopefully the last few months have set it back a pinch.
The Wall Street Journal had a remarkable piece this past weekend on the banking boom and bust of Iceland. An entire economy - currency ...READ»
America has collectively awakened to a crisis. Fear and a bunker mentality have choked consumer spending. It seems bad news makes people act even more conservatively, which makes things worse, which makes for more bad news. Most of ...READ»
To intervene or not to intervene. That is the raging debate on our satellites. That is the raging debate around our water coolers. ‘Let them fail!’ or “They are too big to fail.’ But it is far deeper and more subtle than ...READ»
There is a new drugstore test called the E.G.T. (Early Government Test). You pee on a stick. If the lines appear, you are no longer living in a free market.
Of course, it may be a temporary condition. A few months of ...READ»
The churning of the press in the last few weeks has at least been good for something. If there were any doubt before, none now should remain. Our national conversation about our economic woes is shockingly devoid of an original voice. ...READ»
The moves of our Federal Reserve and Treasury in the last few weeks are gigantic in scope. Decades from now students will study 2008 when the financial markets changed, when the relationship between the government and the private ...READ»
With the speed of a thunderstorm and the force of a glacier, the massive deleveraging of global markets is reshaping the face of American finance. The venerable system of Wall Street investment banks was carved from the map in a ...READ»
Having worked in the financial sector before moving out west to start-up land, I have been asked several times over the past few days about the impact the financial meltdown will have on high tech.
At first, people may think ...READ»
