Posts Tagged ‘
inflation ’
Feb 9th, 2011 |
By Jim Kearns |
Category: Economics, Featured, Housing
The world is changing. Currently, as a nation, we have a large and well-trained section of our work force dedicated to residential construction. Unemployment within the construction industry now exceeds 20%. That number takes into account only workers getting unemployment compensation. There are also many self-employed individuals, ineligible for unemployment ...
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Tags: construction, credit expansion, inflation, Real Estate Boom, real wealth, unemployment
Posted in Economics, Featured, Housing |
11 comments
Jan 7th, 2011 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
As you read this, the U.S. government owes just a sliver under $14 trillion dollars to various suckers who’ve lent it money. And it wants to borrow more.
Timothy Geithner warned that a failure to raise the debt limit would mean the government would not be able to make the payments ...
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Tags: debt ceiling, default, inflation, National debt
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
9 comments
Oct 29th, 2010 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
If Paul Revere were around, maybe he’d get on his horse and start yelling, “Inflation is coming! Inflation is coming!”
I think it is coming. In fact, in many ways, it’s already here, just not yet widely recognized. The deflationists still hold sway in the bond market, where investors happily accept ...
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Tags: Commodities, deflation, inflation, the dollar
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
6 comments
Sep 29th, 2010 |
By Byron King |
Category: Economics, Featured, Gold
Since ancient times, gold has been a safe haven for investors worried about market volatility and political uncertainty. Even the rise of paper currencies hasn’t managed to kill the idea of gold in people’s minds. That’s because gold is no one’s liability — currencies come and go, but gold remains ...
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Tags: boom bust cycle, Gold, inflation, spurring economic activity
Posted in Economics, Featured, Gold |
3 comments
Sep 27th, 2010 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Investing
The Gold Report: Doug, at a recent conference you said that the U.S. ought to default on its national debt now. Why that rather than letting it play out?
Doug Casey: Several other things almost equally radical should be done besides defaulting on the debt. I recognize that an outright default ...
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Tags: default on national debt, Gold, Greater Depression, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold, Personal Investing |
3 comments
Sep 22nd, 2010 |
By James Turk |
Category: Featured, Gold
There is too much money being printed. No rocket science is needed to reach that conclusion. The markets are giving us a clear message.
For example, gold is trading at a record high, while silver has reached a 30-year high. Those new high prices are happening for a reason. The precious ...
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Tags: commodity prices, hyperinflation, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold |
4 comments
Aug 16th, 2010 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Featured, Gold
If Goldman Sachs is publicly bullish on gold, is that a good thing or bad thing for gold bulls?
Wall Street's notorious trading house published a report on gold last week setting a price target of US$1,300 in the next six months. The report cited several factors. But before we get ...
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Tags: deflation, Gold, gold bubble, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold |
7 comments
Jun 3rd, 2010 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Gold
Knowing how governments will respond to deflation, the case for inflation-proof gold looks increasingly clear to cautious wealth...
Useless for pretty much everything except storing wealth (its economic value is social, not industrial), gold acts as inflation-proof money when investors need it most — right in the middle of an ...
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Tags: deflation, dollars, Gold, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold |
13 comments
May 10th, 2010 |
By Linda Brady Traynham |
Category: Economics, Featured, Morning Whiskey
Some of those on Social Security may have been pleased by government analysis and forecasts which the Feds said indicate that there is no inflation, at least until the Feds concluded that primarily senior citizens didn't "need" a raise in the Cost of Living Allowance this year. (Not being all-wise, ...
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Tags: BLS, Economics, inflation, treasury auctions, U-3, U-6
Posted in Economics, Featured, Morning Whiskey |
20 comments
Apr 28th, 2010 |
By Linda Brady Traynham |
Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
We Texans pride ourselves on everything being bigger and better, but the definition of a "better" depression is a smaller, lighter one. I wrote months ago about how Texas was last into the Depression and has been hit less hard than most areas. At that time, only Brownsville, on the ...
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Tags: depression, exports, inflation, mortgage default ratios, new jobs, Texas, unemployment, wind power
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey |
30 comments
