http://www.poverty.org.uk/09/f.pdf
Bitcoin offers an alternative to the conventional, state-sanctioned banking system. Maybe that’s why powerful institutions are so wary of it Among the many unpleasant discoveries…
Cyprus and money Commentary and weekly watch by Doug Noland Last week was one of high-stakes drama for the euro zone. It started with Cyprus’s…
Ex-Fed chiefs run to form Commentary and weekly watch by Doug Noland CNBC’s Andrew Ross-Sorkin, March 15, 2013: ”The question of the morning: Do you…
For some it seems inconceivable that, after the financial crisis, Wall Street bankers would expect their compensation to return to what it was before the crash.
To investment bankers, though, the fact that they haven’t is becoming more and more frustr…
Q4 2012 Flow Of Funds
Commentary and weekly watch by Doug Noland
For years, I would anxiously await the opportunity to sift through each new voluminous quarterly Z.1 ”flow of funds” report from the Federal Reserve. On a quarterly basis, the Federal …
Here’s my formal Bear Chat response to WP’s article:
https://wallstreetexaminer.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1049509
I often look at the 10-year rolling return and related components at the Crestmont Research site here:
http://www.crestmontresearch…
Surprise, surprise: the GOP used overly-pessimistic estimates, in order to justify ending Medicare
The biggest news was the “baseline”—defined as the CBO’s projections of federal revenues and spending assuming current laws remain unchanged. As has happened annually since 2010, the CBO lowered its forecast of federal health spending growth, independent of any policy action. Medicare and Medicaid costs combined are expected to be 15% lower in 2020 than was forecast just 3 years previously. In dollars, the savings for Medicare over the next 7 years are nearly $400 billion, about two-thirds as much as the revenue from the expiration of some of the high-income tax cuts that happened this January.
Italy And “Ro, Ro” Commentary and weekly watch by Doug Noland Last week saw a relatively quiet Monday, with the Dow flirting with all-time highs.…
The Fed and Chinese risk Commentary and weekly watch by Doug Noland This from the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis president James Bullard on…
