Financial Sense Exclusives on the Economy
9 Apr 2013
Barry Ritholtz—money-manager, author of Bailout Nation, and writer for one of the top financial blogs in the country—recently spoke with Financial Sense Newshour about the "big picture" on jobs, the economy, and stock market. Here he explains...
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4 Apr 2013
Picking up from last week’s article, I wanted to continue to develop the notion that the market is rotating out of growth and into lower beta stocks. In addition, some other signs of de-risking are developing.
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3 Apr 2013
Steve Hanke is a professor of Applied Economics at The John Hopkins University and also a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Due to his wide influence, expertise on international monetary affairs, and advisory role to numerous...
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25 Mar 2013
While the dollar has come under severe pressure for many years, there have been several times when our dollar has gone on extended moves higher. Those moves higher typically coincide with slower growth outside of the U.S. and more often with some...
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21 Mar 2013
I’ve been doing some recent work on housing to check back in with the health of the recovery. There are a number of different statistics we can look at to gauge housing’s health.
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15 Mar 2013
Various employment data shows continued improvement in the U.S., helping to support higher stock prices with the perception of economic recovery. As long as the employment situation continues to improve and recession risk remains low, US stock...
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13 Mar 2013
Some have called it the “New Normal”, others have difficulty explaining it. Economists are bewildered, as the old economic prescriptions don’t seem to work. Policy makers are equally perplexed.
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11 Mar 2013
Our prior post titled “World Recession Update” depicted the percentage of 41 countries tracked around the globe that were printing 1 or 2 consecutive negative quarters of GDP growth.
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11 Mar 2013
The latest Flow of Funds just came out and, well, the bubble seems to be back. “The data,” writes Doug Noland, “have again turned more interesting.”
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11 Mar 2013
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died last Tuesday after battling cancer. He was a famous and beloved critic of capitalism. But he was no ordinary critic.
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