Analysis Topic: Economic Trends Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, October 09, 2009
Trending Towards Hyperinflation / Economics / HyperInflation
By: Paul_Tustain
Seven short steps to the cost of living doubling or more inside 3 years...
HYPERINFLATION is widely accepted as a period of out of control price rises, doubling the cost of living inside three years.
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Failed Economic Policies and Rising Unemployment in the U.S. / Economics / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Bob_Chapman
This past week the BLS released the September unemployment statistics and they worsened as usual, as America enjoys its recovery.
U-1–Those unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force was 5.4%.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
The Autumn 2009 Inflation Time Bomb / Economics / Inflation
By: Paul_Tustain
It's not only the energy markets that threaten the 'low inflation' data now encouraging bondholders to keep buying...
THE PUBLISHED INFLATION DATA are surprisingly unsophisticated in so far as they compare current prices with a snapshot a year earlier.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Does Asia's Economic Rebound Signal the Return to Stellar Growth? / Economics / Economic Recovery
By: RGE_Monitor
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Conservative £7 Billion Spending Cuts a Drop in Britain's Debt Ocean / Economics / UK Debt
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Shadow Chancellor George Osbourne announced net public sector spending and budget cuts totaling £7 billion at the Conservative party conference. However the proposed cuts are but a mere drop in the debt ocean that on their own do not amount to anything of real significance when one compares to an annual budget deficit that is expected to break above £200 billion this fiscal year.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Good News, The Economist Says USA Foreclosures Are "Not A Problem!!" / Economics / Mainstream Media
By: Andrew_Butter
The Economist Magazine, much admired for its Neo-Con views, (for example it's jingoistic support for the invasion of Iraq), has now applied its unique insights to the US housing market.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
The Fed's Schizophrenic Monetary Economists / Economics / Economic Theory
By: Gary_North
If monetary theory is accurate, it is a subset of general economic theory, which must also be accurate. Monetary theory is not an independent theory of human action that is divorced analytically from a general theory of human action.
Only the Austrian School of economics believes this and adheres to it in practice. All other systems of economic thought segregate monetary theory from general economic theory.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Gold Understands that Stock Market Liquidity Rallies Do Not Create Jobs / Economics / Economic Stimulus
By: Chris_Galakoutis
Outside of minimum wage jobs and Wal-Mart poverty line work, today’s US economy appears unable to create good jobs. If the US economy cannot create new jobs, Americans will be in no position to save and invest for their futures, nor will they have any purchasing power that would boost the economy.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
US and UK Savers Your Bankrupt "Babushka" Pensioner's Future / Economics / HyperInflation
By: Adrian_Ash
Those people who have saved for the future could soon form our own generation of bankrupted, Babushka pensioners...
TWENTY-FIVE years ago, the Russians found themselves in a hole.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Marx and Lenin Revisited / Economics / Economic Theory
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
"Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks." Karl Marx
If Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin were alive today, they would be leading contenders for the Nobel Prize in economics.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Surge in U.S. Unemployment, No Economic Recovery in Sight / Economics / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Shamus_Cooke
After the recent unemployment numbers were announced, smug politicians promising economic recovery stuttered a bit. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Mainstream economists were predicting a smooth upswing in employment, but in September 263,000 more jobs were lost, 62,000 more than August.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Whalen Says Real Economy Is Dying, Q4 Bloodbath / Economics / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Submissions
Stocks rallied to start the week thanks to a better-than-expected ISM services sector report and a Goldman Sachs upgrade of big banks, including Wells Fargo, Comerica and Capital One.
But all is not right in either the economy or the banking sector, according to Christopher Whalen, managing director at Institutional Risk Analytics. In fact, Whalen says most observers are drawing the wrong economic conclusions from the stock market's robust rally.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Paul Krugman Would Fail as a Businessman / Economics / Economic Theory
By: Eric_Englund
Recently, I traveled to Idaho to meet with several customers over a two-day period. As a surety bond underwriter, I predominantly deal with small-to-medium sized public works and commercial contractors. My objectives, for each meeting, were to gain a better understanding of local market conditions, to see if a viable business plan was in place for each contractor, and to determine which clients would survive this vicious economic downturn.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Strengthening Economic Data for UK, U.S. Economies / Economics / Economic Recovery
By: Lloyds_TSB
After the recent spate of weak economic data, this week began on a more positive note, with yesterday's service sector reports in the UK and US both surprising on the upside. The UK CIPS services sector PMI was particularly firm, with the index rising from 54.1 in August to 55.3 in September - its strongest pace of expansion in two years. That conditions in UK services are improving was also signalled in the latest financial services report from the Confederation of British Industry, which showed confidence amongst UK financial services firms rising for the first time since the start of the credit crisis in 2007.
Monday, October 05, 2009
Global Ageing Population Financial and Economic Crisis Brewing / Economics / Demographics
By: John_Mauldin
We all know that a large wave of Baby Boomers in the US are approaching retirement. But what about the rest of the world? And what happens when those retirees need to spend out of savings? There is more than just a credit crisis and a government deficit crisis in our future. A rising level of retirrees to workers is happening even as I write. And the US is not, for once, the center of the problem. As this week's writer of your Outside the Box Niels Jensen explains, we cannot all export our way out of the problem. There is a global adjustment that must happen and when it does, it will have serious consequences for all. This week's letter is guaranteed to make you think. Set aside a few minutes to do so.
Monday, October 05, 2009
Currency Crisis Lesson from War Ravaged Iraq / Economics / Fiat Currency
By: Edward_Gonzalez
There has been much ado concerning the Federal Reserve's doubling of the monetary base this past year. Many believe a currency crisis or hyperinflation of the dollar is imminent. Some go as far as to say that this crisis will destroy America.
Monday, October 05, 2009
Deflation Threat? What Deflation Threat? / Economics / Deflation
By: Mike_Shedlock
The deflation "recognition phase" has finally arrived. Kroger foods, Costco, and Walmart are blaming deflation for a drop in earnings. Moreover, many high profile names are discussing deflation, something most thought could never happen.
Monday, October 05, 2009
Government Reports Point to Fiscal Doomsday / Economics / US Debt
By: Martin_D_Weiss
When our leaders have no awareness of the disastrous consequences of their actions, they can claim ignorance and take no action.
Or when our leaders have no hard evidence as to what might happen in the future, they can at least claim uncertainty.
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Monday, October 05, 2009
In Praise of Emerging Markets Investing / Economics / Emerging Markets
By: John_Derrick
If you believe now is a good time to invest in U.S. stocks, emerging markets may offer even more opportunity.
We believe global growth is the most powerful investment theme now and for the foreseeable future. You can see this playing out as countries like China, India and Brazil grow in economic stature. As we saw in Pittsburgh last week, the G-7 is being supplanted by the more inclusive G-20 when it comes to global economic decision-making.
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Monday, October 05, 2009
Housing Rents Deflationary Impact on CPI Inflation Data / Economics / Deflation
By: Mike_Shedlock
In Bill Gross Bets On Deflation I posted some links on falling rent prices courtesy of Lansler on Real Estate. Here is a recap.