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Bloomberg Television has another great set of interviews to see, this time with Larry Fink of BlackRock and Bill Gross of PIMCO. The two sat down with Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker for an exclusive conversation at an alumni event…

In a February 2010 Casey Report article titled Is China’s Recovery a Fraud?, my thesis was the $2.1 trillion stimulus package rolled out by Chinese authorities after the 2008/2009 financial crash was leading to enormous malinvestment. As…

I don't see stimulus though, neither fiscal or significant monetary stimulus either. So that leaves me predicting slowing without policy stimulus until recession hits, at which point the loss of demand will blow the deficit out even more.…

Dollar continues to firm amid choppy market conditions; US futures point to modest decline. President Obama announces bigger package than expected; fiscal stimulus may be USD supportive. China’s CPI report shows that inflation has likely…

An excerpt from the August 1932 Republican Nomination Acceptance Speech by Herbert Hoover and commentary about his policy choices and ours today

I doubt we are going to see wide scale debt forgiveness until defaults and debt deflation have taken center stage. But this is something to consider as it was an approach used during the Great Depression.

Former Fed nominee and Nobel Laureate Peter Diamond spoke to Bloomberg News about how he sees the economic difficulties the United States faces. His view is that America faces a jobs crisis in the here and now and that deficit reduction is…

The S&P 500 completes its worst run in a long time returning to levels not last seen since March, when we thought we had to write off the entire Japanese economy as a nuclear wasteland. So, is it all back to square one for the already…

Last week the NY Times covered the division within the economic community over the way out of the USA's overspending / balance budgeting. “Reasonable people can sit down and, apart from any political or policy motivations, come up…

Comstock Partners argues that while the stock market seems ready cheer any agreement that increases the debt ceiling and avoids a default, such cheering may be extremely short-lived as the economy sinks further under the burden of…