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Economics / Alan Greenspan, bailouts, banking, home prices, inflation, interest rates, real estate /

The Rotten Thing About Real Estate

July 9, 2010

Once in a while I come across an article that hits a major problem head on. More often than not those articles are written by Martin Wolf of the Financial Times. Today he does it again with an analysis of housing. I would give you the link, but the article seems to have slipped from […]

Economics / consumption, creditors, deficits, deflation, fiscal policy, GDP, inflation, interest rates, monetary policy, recession, recovery, stimulus /

Those Mystery Debt Issues

July 7, 2010

OK. Let me take another stab at this one. There is no debt problem. Now enjoy the summer. We are beset with folks arguing that nations running big budget deficits ‘need’ to cut spending in order to assuage the credit markets. I have tried to argue this is fallacious reasoning, yet the fear continues. Indeed, […]

Economics / bailouts, consumption, deficits, exports, health care, interest rates, real estate, recession, recovery, stimulus, unemployment /

Deficits and The Economy: Time To Get Worried?

July 2, 2010

The big question now has become: are we falling back into recession? Who knows? There is plenty of evidence mounting that the US economy is slipping back from its early recovery pace into a much lower, and therefore more risky, pace. The downward revision of first quarter GDP, from the original 3.1% to the more […]