Topic: Economic Crisis

Bailouts and Stimulus Packages: Missing the Mark

22 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com What exactly was all this U.S. Federal bailout money—the Temporary Asset Relief Program (TARP)—supposed to relieve?   Let’s review the highlights First of all, ...READ»

Bubbles and Regulation

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comOur current economic crisis is so deep and complex it's not likely to right itself anytime soon. How do we work ourselves out of this hole?  Do we need more regulation or less? This is a ...READ»

What's in Store for Small Business?

12 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com  The economic downturn has hit businesses both large and small, boosting the number of bankruptcies to levels not seen since 1939. Growing unemployment rolls, losses of ...READ»

Housing Recovery Plan: What's Fair?

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspecultaion.comThere have been so many bail-out packages, stimulus proposals and other unprecedented plans designed to save the economy, it's become nearly impossible for the casual observer to keep track of ...READ»

Recession Pessimism

I gave a talk on Marketing Technology in Troubled Times at the recent Software Business conference in San Francisco. Seems that the topic is popular as I have been invited to give the same presentation via webinars in December to the ...READ»

Slippery Slump

Technology may lead the way out of this recession ... but it isn't happening yet. Here is what technology vendors should do until the market is ready for a revival.READ»

Reflections on a Depression: I’ve Got All This Blame, Where do I Put it?

Wherever he is, Chicken Little is probably grinning. For many Americans these days, it feels like the sky is falling, and financially speaking, the evidence supports Mr. Little’s claim. The consensus around here is that we are ...READ»

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our ...READ»

Nouriel Roubini: Big Crash Coming

"Dr. Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics and international business at the Stern School of Business at NYU and chairman of RGE Monitor, is perhaps best known for his prescient predictions of the financial market collapse in ...READ»

A Closer Look at Recessions

29 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com All eyes are on the current recession, but we tend to overlook the many U.S. recessions we've survived since the Great Depression.  They’ve varied in length and ...READ»

Who's Afraid of a Recession?

Not strategy guru Adrian Slywotzky. He says bad times are the best times to make time on the competition.READ»

Nonsense At Work

The recession is in the past: Tell me, how do we define a recession?  Let me remind you.  We have a recession when the country's gross domestic product, its GDP, shrinks for at least two consecutive quarters.  A depression ...READ»

Why Congress Should Craft an Innovation-Based Economic Stimulus Package

As talk of a possible recession grows, so too does consideration of a second economic fiscal stimulus package. Indeed, House Speaker Pelosi has spoken of the need for a stimulus package potentially as high as $300 billion in order ...READ»

The Worldly Investor, David S. Waddell

Weekly Strategic Insight Friday, October 10, 2008 Rubber Room It would be an understatement to call this market period unprecedented. All of the economic, fundamental and technical research cannot explain the ...READ»

Roger Cass, The Last Optimist

Roger Cass is the man who invented the idea of the Long Boom -- the notion that we're only 7 years into a 27-year expansion, the likes of which the world has never seen before. The future, Cass says, is already written. All we need is the confidence to accept it.READ»

Investing Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint

Sound and Fury Markets continued their volatile ways last week. We began with a 400 point up day on Monday and ended with a 300 point down day on Friday. In between, we had a series of wild swings, exacerbated by large hedge ...READ»

Evolutionary Economics: Bottom Up Solutions to Business Problems

A new science called evolutionary economics offers fresh insights into how the business landscape isn't controlled from the top.READ»

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Another Credit Crunch

  Retailers who had been bracing for weak sales this holiday season were pleasantly surprised on Black Friday, as retail sales rose 3 percent to $10.6 billion nationally according to MarketWatch. In the midst of the current ...READ»

Big opportunities in a recession

People always worry whenever there's a recession. They worry that they'll not be able to get extra money to pay all those mortgages and bank loans.Contrary to belief, you can prosper under a recession. That's a proven fact. Many ...READ»

Big opportunities in a recession

People always worry whenever there's a recession. They worry that they'll not be able to get extra money to pay all those mortgages and bank loans.Contrary to belief, you can prosper under a recession. That's a proven fact. Many ...READ»

Financial Help through an FHA Mortgage or FHA Refinance.

With the economy in recession, it can be hard to find financial help. An fha refinance loan can help you save. Find out more at fha-101.comREAD»

Has the Face of Capitalism Changed Forever?

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comThe current financial crisis has changed our perceptions of the term capitalism and everything we have always assumed it stood for. The deeper the recession gets, the longer it drags on, the ...READ»

Another Stimulus Package? Give Me a Break

Democrats, now backed by Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, are calling for a second stimulus package which could cost as much as $300 billion. To clarify, that’s $300 billion on top of the $168 billion stimulus passed last ...READ»

Walmart and Twitter Gang Up To Make The World Green

Walmart is greening its supply chain. Twitter is being used to expose corporate practices that are destroying communities and the environment. Instead of dampening an emphasis on sustainability practices, the Financial Crises seems to be heating it up.READ»

The Ecological Credit Crunch

Banks and the automobile industry have had the luxury of government bailouts, but what about Mother Nature? Who should be responsible for paying off the huge ecological debt that has accumulated over years of use and abuse of the world’s natural resources? The idea of an ecological credit crunch happening may seem far-fetched, but the truth is we are using up limited resources that are fast running out. We may not have much longer before an ecological credit crisis occurs.READ»