Fiscal Stimulus: Does Government Investment help the Economy. Examining the Impact of Monetary and Fiscal Stimulus.
The economic difficulties facing our country have for the first time, made the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury seem powerless in regards to starting the economic engine once again. For nearly 100 years, the school of thought was that monetary policy was the driving force for everything. If inflation was picking up, all you needed […]
Economic and Investing Forecast for 2009: 10 Charts Showing no Economic Rebound in 2009.
Today the ADP National Employment Report stated that private sector jobs fell by a much larger than expected 693,000 in December. This report stunned on the downside and is a prelude to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics report which comes out on Friday. The market also suffered its worst one day since early December. […]
10 FDIC Charts and Graphs Highlighting Bank Problems: FDIC Analysis Examining 2009 Future of over 8,000 Banks Insured by the FDIC.
With all the problems occurring in the banking system, it is rather astonishing that so few have failed in 2008. At least that is the perception being put out there for us to digest. Yet the failure of one IndyMac or Washington Mutual is the equivalent of 100 smaller bank failures all at once.
Housing Bubble Genesis: 5 Reasons that Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble and 5 Reasons that did.
There is a danger in having power. Credit at least many decades ago was seen almost as an extension of the morality of the borrower. That is, the way credit was given many times reflected the capacity, collateral, and character of the borrower.  Main Street is already feeling this recession like the worst since World War II and […]