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Best Canadian Stocks for Americans To Invest In

March 8, 2010 · 6 comments

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With the US dollar increasingly perceived to be walking on shakier ground, and no significant signs in sight that the US will be able to pay off its debts without radical quantitative easing (i.e., effective devaluation of the dollar); continued unemployment levels near 10% and no short-term fix in the ongoing housing slump (more foreclosures [...]

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Making Money In a Deflationary Environment

March 1, 2010 · 4 comments

in Federal Reserve, US dollar, US economy, consumers, deflation, depression, economy, financial planning, interest rates, investing, market trends, money supply, recession, stimulus, unemployment, wealth protection, wealthbuilding

The rally has been over for a good two months, and the markets have been stuck in a trading range since the New Year.  Recent concerns over the potential of sovereign debt crises, however, show that we’re not out of the woods yet.
Just consider some of the following areas for potential setbacks in the markets: [...]

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It’s Not a Depression if We Don’t Make It One

February 24, 2009 · 4 comments

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With all the new recent serious talk again of a Great Depression (or just a “Depression”) now that confidence seems to have totally dissipated in regard to the economic stimulus projects (not that they won’t work – but just that they might not work soon enough, and the ensuing debt they create will have its [...]

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Peter Morici Says We’re Headed Into a Depression

January 10, 2009 · 0 comments

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A professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland says that the US is headed into a Depression — yes, the big D word — unless the correct steps are taken to fix certain structural things about the economy: namely, a broken banking and credit system.
You can watch the [...]

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