When it comes to the US medical services system, any change at all is better than the status quo. Anything that hastens the total collapse…
It’s odd the way the players pay attention to some numbers and not others. There’s no reason why the market should have been surprised by…
Please don’t take this prediction too seriously but I think the “Phrase of the Year” will be something like– “… is struggling to hedge its exposure” and hence the “Word of the Year” will be some…
by Jimi Total eurodebacle is in the offing. It’s going to get very hot in Athens before long. What struck me about the reporting on…
“Fewer Americans than anticipated filed claims for unemployment insurance last week as an administrative backlog subsided and indicating companies are nearing the end of major…
The World is partying like it is 2007 all over again. The reasons are two: the crazy money printed by Helicopter Ben and the moral hazard produced by the universal bailout of everything, everywhere. I still see the traces of sanity in the US consumer…
All the other Government BS aside, the real unemployment rate, known as the U-6, which is the one that includes discouraged workers and those underemployed…
By Heritage Ray FDIC leases almost 151,000 square feet in Schaumburg (Now here’s a growth business) The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has signed a short-term…
The spectacular rebound in oil prices in 2009 could be attributed to two major factors: fears of currency debasement that lead to excess hoarding and speculation; and discipline of well-oiled Opec members to cut production. You already know from many p…
Last year I was not making making predictions for 2009, mostly because my call for 2008 was ridiculously correct and I had nothing more to say. But this year will be different and I’ll try to make some predictions. The most important point to…
