Scaremongering. What will happen? What happened last time. The government showed it will take resolute action.
Buffett's investing acumen is to be respected, but he is still open to criticism. He has been very fortunate to be an American investing in...
People used to drink tap water!!! Today bottled water is worth more than $1.
Krugman who was like the only notable pundit out there ranting against Bush Jr.'s incompetence years before it was fashionable? He was called...
Under capitalism the government can allow almost any industry to fail BUT NOT BANKS. The capitalist system is built upon banks. The current...
Most good parents dream of leaving their children and family better off when they pass on. It doesn't matter that they are working hard and not...
Increasing the money supply is only one prong in what needs to be a multi-pronged approach to addressing this financial crisis. As regards to...
So Obama moves to enact the changes he campaigned on. Why the uproar? If he had went beyond that like with a transaction tax I could understand...
What's happening with BAC and C right now is the stock market's version of the "stress test". Market participants smell blood and are circling...
One of the closest financial collapses in terms of similarity to the current one is that of Japan circa 1990. Please take a look at the chart of...
I got the figure from Marc Faber on an interview on Bloomberg. Couldn't find the link to that so I'll link to this instead which shows the 30...
WRONG. According to Friedman the money supply did decrease by 1/3---but it wasn't caused by the Fed. It was caused by the string of bank...
Someone still needs to explain why the Japanese yen didn't depreciate significantly when their bubble popped. With that example sticking out I...
You're wrong when you say bitches aren't bitches when they are still young. Bitches are bitches from youth and maybe even from birth. Same with...
"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly...
This might help or the links at the bottom of the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_market_operations
scriabinop23 and aradiel it seems have identified and explained the important points. But to reiterate the essential point aradiel brought up,...
If there is something about the media attention on Obama entering the White House and the whole issue about the Blackberry that has struck me, it...
But it is the urban areas on the coasts that most reliably vote Democrat. It's the more rural areas of the Midwest and South that are most...
If I recall in another article about the CBO they hired outside consultants to do the analysis. A question that should be answered first is who...
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