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Major Retailers Hurt By Collapse of Consumer Debt-Spending

Sep 13th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Having worked for a big box retailer for 14 years, I understand the dynamics of a high-growth rollout of stores as a key to increasing market share and profits. Some of the best retail names in the US have practiced the identical strategy of concentrating many stores in each market ...read more

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The World Gold Council Wrong About Gold

May 21st, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Gold
Deprecated and reduced as a financial asset, gold is fast-gaining new buyers yet remains under-invested compared to previous crises... "FEAR, Mr. Bond, takes gold out of circulation and hoards it against the evil day," as 007 learns from a Bank of England officer in Ian Fleming's Goldfinger (1959). So "in a period ...read more

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