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By Jeff Clark, Senior Editor, Casey’s Gold & Resource Report The talk of a possible double dip is now common banter on TV investment programs. And indeed, deflationary forces seem to have the stronger grip right now than inflationary…

By John Mauldin A report just out from the Center for Policy Analysis, by Courtney Collins and Andrew J. Rettenmaier (solid academic types from Mercer University and Texas A&M respectively), that indicates that state and local pension…

Bill Gross, manager of the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., recently wrote that he now takes a less optimistic view of what he dubs "Keynesian consumption remedies." As a result, he talks to…

By Annaly Capital Management. On Tuesday July 27th, the Census Bureau released homeownership rate data for the second quarter of 2010, which showed a continued decline to 66.9% from a peak of 69.4% in 2004. This rate hasn’t been below 67%…

David Rosenberg is bullish on bonds. And the reasoning for his bullishness has a lot to do with the deleveraging and excess capacity which the bursting of the credit bubble has brought into view. In this sense, his views on inflation are…

I got these charts from a BBC article entitled Fixed retirement age to be axed. The article says about UK government retirement planning: The government is planning to scrap the default retirement age in the UK from October 2011.…

I am great believer in divergence when it comes to the global economy if anything then because it allows you to take a slightly more nuanced perspective than the risk off/risk on debate that has dominated the discourse for the past two…

There is a new graph on the internet that will be seen and discussed at length in the coming days and weeks.  It shows how household net worth has changed over the past 59 years. The graph below, originally from Macro and Other Market…

In a note to investors today, a well-regarded strategist on the equity sales desk at a major sell side firm put up the following two Bloomberg charts next to each other. The two charts reflect different time frames but are from related…

Barry Ritholtz offers this graph (courtesy of The Chart Store). Barry offers no further comment with the graph, but I started to wonder if the "bubble" in capitalization could be explained by the increase in business done…