Long-term trends grow from short term trends. We attampt to determine the short term trends and where they are pointing.
By Dr. Lacy Hunt for Casey Research In the early 1960s, when JFK was in the White House and William McChesney Martin was Fed chairman, Keynesian economics was in full bloom. One of its major tenets is the Phillips Curve, which posits a stable inverse relationship between the rate of inflation and the unemployment rate.
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Conflicting Forces at Play with Oil Prices An Interview with Mike Shedlock As markets continue to yo-yo and commentators deliver mixed forecasts, investors are faced with some tough decisions and have a number of important questions that need answering. OilPrice.com was fortunate enough to speak with the award winning economic commentator Mike “Mish” Shedlock. His blog: Mish’s
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By Elliott Wave International Financial markets always have always posed two basic questions that investors seek to answer: What’s the direction of the main trend? How far will it go? Systematic approaches to these questions commonly belong to either fundamental or technical analysis. Let’s consider each one briefly. Fundamental analysis studies how a market behaves in response
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Often governments and corporations need to raise capital for a multitude of reasons. To do this they have several channels available. They can borrow from banks, issue stock or borrow from investors or they can issue debt securities in the form of bonds. Many investors (called bond holders) purchase these bonds and in return, the company gets a lump
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Editor’s Note: Anyone who has ever taken Economics 101 knows that the free market is more efficient than top down governmental planning at efficiently distributing goods and services at the lowest possible price. But often governmental bureaucrats have their own agenda that doesn’t include efficiency (or low price) as a priority. How would you feel if some government
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Editor’s Note: In today’s interview Alex Daly talks with former Reagan budget director David Stockman about Austerity, the FED, housing, debt, the economy, the stock market, bonds, and much more. Here are a few of David’s excellent quotes from the interview: [The FED is] being run by people who are clueless as to how to get
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DRIPs Many companies which pay dividends on their stock also offer dividend reinvestment plans, or DRIPs. Receiving a quarterly dividend check is nice, of course, but you’re probably not going to be receiving much at once, and many of us would be inclined to fritter that extra cash away. DRIPs help you make more effective
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2012 has been a tough year for people around the world. With the European debt crisis and high unemployment rates in the U.S., it is hard to decide where to invest to keep your money safe and to earn some interest without getting yourself into financial trouble. It is a fact that in order to make money
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Tax Deferred Retirement Income Being able to live a comfortable life once you retire is easier said than done in today’s economy. Many people who thought they were going to be able to retire were caught off-guard when the financial markets took a turn for the worse. While there are many different investing strategies that
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Editor’s Note: In the following excellent article Brandon Smith argues that world-wide, Socialism is a failure and that America can’t afford it and therefore it can’t be implemented. I’m not so sure. Politicians are known for implementing things we can’t afford and the consequences often take longer to be realized than a thinking person would
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