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28th September 2009
As Dusty Springfield famously sang, "the world goes round without even a sound, and it looks like summer is over".
Dusty was spot on regarding the second part of that lyric but the property and financial worlds were making plenty of noise over the pa... Read >
Author: torcana.com@gmail.com23rd September 2009
Are you concerned about inflation, a recession, or even a depression in the early 21st Century? If you are concerned about either one or the real possibility of all the economic woes that potentially face the United States you are surely not alone as mor... Read >
Author: wbdoyle11th September 2009
Summary of Overnight News:
• The FTSE-100 will open sharply higher this morning following last night's strong gains in New York, as dovish comments by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and sliding oil prices allowed investors to put the crisis in the Middle Ea... Read >
10th September 2009
Larger-than-expected improvements in U.S. housing prices and consumer confidence on Tuesday lent new weight to signs the economy is emerging from the longest and deepest recession since the 1930s.
U.S. home prices rose for the second month i... Read >
Author: zameensapna10th September 2009
Larger-than-expected improvements in U.S. housing prices and consumer confidence on Tuesday lent new weight to signs the economy is emerging from the longest and deepest recession since the 1930s.
U.S. home prices rose for the second month in a r... Read >
Author: Real estate 29th August 2009
Can you believe the term credit crunch has entered dictionaries already?
Often defined as "a severe shortage of money or credit" who are they kidding, Kenyans, no Africans have suffered this so called crunch for years, even decades. So the West is taking... Read >
Author: Aaron Dixon16th August 2009
If it is not bad enough that the Fed has nearly infinite control over money and interest rates and are able to absolutely control the economy from an office building, the Obama administration is proposing that the Fed serve as a controller to detect activ... Read >
08th August 2009
In today's economic environment, it is important we provide money management classes for teens and youth of all ages. Right now there are a lot of financial literacy grants available to fund nonprofits financial literacy programs.
The financial prepar... Read >
31st July 2009
By Public Jobs Direct the public sector recruitment specialist
Many officials and economists around the world claim that in spring 2009 the global economy passed the critical test for what lies ahead. Although, nobody can guarantee with certainty that ... Read >
Author: Public Jobs Direct11th June 2009
As a regular viewer of C-SPAN�s Washington Journal program each morning, I have to tell you that the way most guest politicians respond to direct questions gives a whole new meaning to tap-dancing.
I mean a caller to the show or sometimes the C-SPAN ... Read >
Author: herbert34818th May 2009
Last weekend a friend was telling me over dinner that there was no recession. He pointed to the fact that there was construction going on all around his well appointed neighborhood.
In fact, he contended, the (non-existent) recession was probably the ... Read >
Author: John Whitefoot17th April 2009
Apparently the words of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke carry a little more weight with Wall Street these days than those of the Commander in Chief. Bernanke gave his reassuring prognosis to Congress last month that the recession could end before t... Read >
Author: Robert Palmer15th April 2009
I want you to see the bigger picture, question everything you've been told and develop a coherent philosophy.
Why?
Because these are the ingredients to becoming wealthy, powerful and free.
A few quotes to start off:
Ben Bernanke, Federal Reser... Read >
Author: League of Power27th March 2009
Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve made a huge mistake in diagnosing the current economic crisis. As an old vanguard of the Great Depression school of thought, Mr. Bernanke sees an economic crisis as a result of deflation. S... Read >
Author: Clint Jhonson03rd March 2009
Despite the United States Federal Reserve Board’s diligent attempts to stimulate the economy throughout the year of 2008 by repeatedly reducing the Federal Funds rate, the typically correlating thirty-year average mortgage rate stubbornly remained uncha... Read >
Author: Brian S. Icenhower16th January 2009
Conventional wisdom (or market spin) was that the risk of default from subprime would not spill over into Alt-A and Prime loans. This argument was made because these two categories have historically had low default rates. Of course, this argument ignored ... Read >
Author: Robert Bell08th January 2009
The Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke began aggressively lowering interest rates at the end of 2007 in response to the severe economic downturn caused by the collapse of house prices and the related difficulties falling house prices had on the banks and ... Read >
Author: Robert Bell31st October 2008
In his recent testimony, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, gave warning that the difficulty companies and consumers face when trying to get a loan and the steep rise in the price of short-term credit poses a direct threat to the growth of the econom... Read >
Author: Robert Palmer30th June 2008
All investments depend on making returns, which in turn are affected by macro cycles such as the Great Depression or the dot-com boom. When a market is receding, it makes more sense for long-term, stability-seeking investors to look elsewhere upon first g... Read >
Author: Ki Gray02nd April 2008
The year has begun with concerns over recessionary trends in the US. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments earlier this month inspired little optimism. Against this backdrop, it seems prudent to consider companies that have a global presence and those th... Read >
Author: nadiar08@gmail.com01st April 2008
Make no mistake, the U.S. economy is teetering on the brink. Take the sub-prime mortgage meltdown. So far the banks have admitted to just over $100 billion in bad debts but the truth is – no one knows how much money has been lost. According to Fed Chair... Read >
Author: lazysubmit20th January 2008
Republican presidential candidates seemed to support a combination of tax reductions and spending cuts to make up for an election-year recession. They were arguing in a debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, sponsored by the South Carolina Republican Par... Read >
Author: Emma14th March 2007
I like to think that penny stocks are lone marauders that buck long held stock market trends. They don’t follow typical trading patterns, they don’t care how much oil is trading at (unless it’s an energy stock of course), they don’t care what Bill... Read >
Author: John Whitefoot27th April 2006
Heads up to business owners. The recent Federal Reserve short-term interest rate hike was the 15th consecutive increase since June 2004 and the first since Ben Bernanke took over as chairman of the central bank in February.
The Fed indicated that even ... Read >
Author: Steven Fitzgerald09th March 2006
The reputation of Alan Greenspan as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve was one of brilliance or incredible luck. Now it is the turn of Ben Bernanke.
Ben Bernanke
Alan Greenspan reigned as Fed Chairman for nearly 20 years. During this time, the eco... Read >
Author: Dan Lewis
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