THE REAL ECONOMY VS. THE PAPER ECONOMY The Real Economy . Oil at a record, rice too. Gold hitting $1000 an ounce, silver way up. Corn prices boosted by ethanol demand. Food riots in Haiti, Guatemala, Argentina and more. 24 countries dropping food import tariffs because they are seeing food shortages...
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CHAIRMAN BERNANKE: “HOLD INTEREST RATES STEADY ON TUESDAY!” Hey, why not? What have we got to lose? Cutting interest rates sure isn’t working, right? Along with setting interest rate policy, the Fed has another role, that is being the “lender of last resort.” They’ve sure done that this past Tuesday...
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THE ECONOMY: Weekly Review: Monday, March 10th, 2008 Here’s a quote I could lead off the economy or stock market sections with, from www.comstockfunds.com : “The world is burdened by excessive debt and leverage throughout a large part of the financial system, and the working off of the debt and deleveraging...