A New All-Time High
A $1 trillion dollar bailout of overly indebted euro-area governments has helped push gold to a new all-time high. The bailout in Europe greatly...
Personal Income: Outlook Not So Good.
There has still been no meaningful recovery in real personal income. The nascent recovery in consumer spending has come out of savings and from...
Are Small Stocks Safer Than Large Stocks?
A recent study in Financial Analysts Journal (FAJ) found that a portfolio of small-capitalization stocks is no more risky than a portfolio of large-capitalization...
If Greece Fails, is Portugal Next?
Greek government bond yields have surged to over 16% in recent days. If Germany doesn’t step into to save the Greeks, a default is...
A Wake Up to Governments & The First G7 Nations Raise Rates
IMF Warns of 'New Phase' in Crisis – By Tom Barkley and Bob Davis, The Wall Street Journal
"Higher debt levels have the potential for...