by deyoe | Mar 30, 2012 | Economic Data, Investing, Personal Finance, Weekly Commentary
WATCH OUT FOR A STEALTH “TAX” ON SAVERS! Quantitative easing has led to a stealth “tax” on savers in what’s been called “financial repression,” according to Bloomberg. As mentioned above, one goal of quantitative easing is to...
by deyoe | Mar 30, 2012 | Developed, Economic Policy, International, Monetary Policy, Weekly Commentary
The Markets A trillion here, a trillion there and, pretty soon, you have a nice market rally. Through a program called quantitative easing, central banks around the world have flooded the world economy with the equivalent of trillions of U.S. dollars. Quantitative...
by deyoe | Mar 25, 2012 | Economic Data, Economic Policy, Emerging, International, Trade, Weekly Commentary
WHY IS MONGOLIA ONE OF THE WORLD’S FASTEST GROWING ECONOMIES? Is there a lesson to be learned from them? While the U.S. economy languished at a 1.7 percent growth rate in 2011, Mongolia – a landlocked country sandwiched between China and Russia – grew a...
by deyoe | Mar 23, 2012 | Economic Data, Investing, Weekly Commentary
The Markets It was a busy week on Wall Street with numerous big moves and key milestones hit. Here are a few of the highlights: The S&P 500 index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average had their biggest weekly gains since last December. The S&P 500 closed at its...
by deyoe | Mar 16, 2012 | Economic Data, Investing, Monetary Policy, Weekly Commentary
THE AGGREGATE NET WORTH OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS WAS $58.5 TRILLION. . . . . . at the end of last year, according to data from the Federal Reserve Flow of Funds report. To put that number in context, household net worth peaked at $66.8 trillion in the third quarter of 2007....
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