By Bud Conrad Chief Economist, The Casey Report - Casey Research As investors, the question we have to focus most of our attention on just now is what impact the credit crisis, the bursting housing bubble and the actions of the U.S. government will have on the economy and investment markets in the next...
The Slow Motion Recession Revisited Inflation, Deflation and Stagflation An Update on Myanmar New York "We appear to be entering a period of serious stagflation with sharply rising expected and actual inflation combined with large downside risks to growth and employment." "I would argue...
Whip Inflation Now Where Can We Get Help on Inflation? The Patient Died Anyway Inflation in Asia and Europe There Are No Good Solutions President Nixon instated price controls on the 15 th of August, 1971. Inflation was a little over 4% at the time. Price controls manifestly did not work (resulting in...
When Bubbles Collide Unemployment Jumps to 5.5%, On Its Way to 6% What the Tax Numbers Show What's Up With Oil? America on a Diet Montreal, a New Book, and a Wedding I remember in the summer of 2006 I would face my blank computer screen on a Friday and wonder, what I could write about? The media...
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics Who Is Inflating the Numbers? Honey, I Blew up the Employment Numbers A Black Swan in Food Housing Numbers Are Better Than I Wrote South Africa, Canada, and La Jolla "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." – commonly attributed...
This week in Outside the Box we look at two brief essays which give us different perspective on the Continuing Crisis. The first is by Mohamed El-Erian, the co-chief executive and co-chief investment officer of Pimco. His book, 'When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic...
Written: April 18 2008 Dear Readers, I am running quite late this sunny New England morning. But I have a good excuse: my wife has left me. Well, it's not all that dramatic... it is just that she has hived off for Europe for a ten-day gallivant with friends, leaving me in sole charge of the children...
Written: April 11, 2008 Dear Readers, No question about it, we humans like to keep things simple. And no wonder; if the world is anything, it is chaotic. And so we look for our philosophy in un-taxing nuggets, the sort, perhaps, that might grace the back of a cereal box, be squeezed onto a bumper sticker...
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