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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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State of the Economic Union: How Will Obama Get Massive U.S. Budget Deficits To Budge?

January 27, 2010 · 2 comments

in 2010, GDP, January, Obama, US Treasury, US debt, US economy, budgets, debt, deficits, employment, fiscal year, government, news and updates, recession, special dates, stimulus, stimulus plan

The Obama administration sits between an economic rock and a political hard place.  Others might call it a contradiction.  Obama needs to cut spending, but he’s doing this at the same time that more spending is being introduced (on job creation, more troops in Afghanistan).  Slight cuts in some areas are supposed to offset increased [...]

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When the Fed Is Expected to Raise Interest Rates

December 23, 2009 · 0 comments

in Federal Reserve, US dollar, US economy, central banks, financial planning, government, inflation, interest rates, money supply, stimulus

With long-term U.S. bond yields rising and much of the recovery seemingly in place, analysts are increasingly wondering when the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) will begin to implement its quantitative easing exit strategy and start raising interest rates.
Currently the Fed baseline interest rate fluctuates between zero (0) and 0.25%and has done so since late [...]

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UK Stimulus Fails, Sees Sixth Quarter of Recession

October 24, 2009 · 4 comments

in UK, central banks, foreign investment, international economy, news and updates, recession, stimulus

The Bank of England surprised all economic estimates today when it revealed that the UK GDP continued to contract in the third quarter.  Most analysts were expecting modest growth, and the Bank of England itself had been jawboning the notion that there would be growth.  Instead, GDP contracted by 0.4%, which raises questions about other [...]

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Jim Flaherty’s Interview with BNN’s Amanda Lang at the Conference of Montreal

June 11, 2009 · 2 comments

in Canadian, Canadian economy, G20, business, international economy, stimulus

The International Economic Forum of the Americas’ Conference of Montreal was covered this week by BNN’s Amanda Lang, who interviewed the World Bank President (Robert Zoellick), the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (Dominique Strauss-Kahn), former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright and the CEO of General Electric (Jeffrey Immelt).
I’ll provide a brief overview [...]

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You Really Have To Watch This New Perspective On the Economic Crisis

February 5, 2009 · 2 comments

in US economy, stimulus, video

Watch the first five minutes of this video clip from BNN (Canada’s all-business channel).  Peter Gibson is Vice-Chair of Desjardins Securities, and he uses the D-word.  In fact he says he still believes there’s a 30% chance we can fall into a Depression if measures aren’t put in place to avoid a “second-wave” collapse in [...]

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Is It Time To Worry About Canadian Banks?

January 22, 2009 · 0 comments

in bailout, banks, stimulus

Today on BNN’s SqueezePlay Kevin O’Leary suggested that the Canadian banks might catch the same “second leg down” disease that the American banks have now.  Rather, Kevin suggested he might start to worry about that possibility.  He didn’t actually say he thought the possibility was probable right now, just that it had come onto the [...]

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