2010

Obama returns fire after China slams Fed's move | Reuters China inflation unlikely to ease soon: economist | Reuters FT.com - Eurozone woes and QE2 backlash damp enthusiasm What effect did health-care reform have on election?…

The following is a post I wrote earlier today at Naked Capitalism. I liked Ed's piece on QE called Does Ben Bernanke Believe The Stuff He Writes?. What caught my eye was his line, "As for monetary policy, while QE does not create new…

The outcome of the US midterm elections and Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting, coupled with the various economic reports, strengthens our base case scenario in which we expect the US dollar to generally trade higher as the 2010…

US President Barack Obama was on "60 Minutes" last night in an interview taped on Thursday. He gave a synopsis of his thinking about the recent US mid-term elections. Here is a bit of what he had to say as written by CBS which…

Highlights The US dollar strength before and after the payrolls report Friday continued through Monday, apart from a blip in early trading. The euro initially made gains, with EUR/USD up above $1.4080, as local elections in Greece gave…

Topic of the Day: Problems with QE mounting US accused of forcing up world food prices | Business | The Guardian QE2 inflates commodities, threatens 70s-styled malaise - International Business Times G20 finds common ground…

The heads of state of the world's twenty largest economies are set to meet in Seoul, South Korea to discuss the global economy. The so-called currency war will be of particular interest during this session because of an escalation in…

Paul Davidson argues that the Obama Administration and its allies in Congress have not actually followed the prescriptions laid out by the British economist Lord Keynes in making economic policy – and that this is a principal reason for…

By Dr. Lacy Hunt, Hoisington Investment Mgt. Co. The October employment situation was dramatically weaker than the headline 159k increase in the payroll employment measure. The broader household employment fell 330k. The only reason that…

by David Galland As I write, gold is back in record territory, surging from $1,313 a month ago, to over $1,390 as I write. Paid subscribers to our International Speculator service, which focuses on the junior resource companies – mostly…