SalonCapitalism In extreme crises, conservatism can turn to fascism. Here's how that might play outSalon - Yale R. MagrassIn the 1985 movie "Back to the Future," Marty McFly (played by Michael J. Fox) travels in a time machine from the 1980s to the 1950s. When he tells people of the '50s he is from the '80s, he is met with
FOX Businessflipped into MarketsInterest Rates Credit Suisse to start charging wealthy clientsFOX Business - Christian de La ChapelleSwiss investment bank Credit Suisse will soon be applying negative interest rates to the wealthy, at least when it comes to Swiss francs. In what is starting to become a bit of a trend for banks in regards
Economics Per Jacobsson Lecture: The World Turned Upside Down: Economic Policy in Turbulent Timesimf.org - meetings.imf.org Mervyn King served as Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to June 2013. He was previously Deputy Governor from 1998 to 2003, Chief Economist …
Finance (India) India’s Modi Slowdown | by Shashi Tharoorproject-syndicate.org - Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Until recently, Indians had gotten used to taking economic growth for granted. After a decade of annual growth averaging over 9%, India’s …
Fatherlyflipped into FatherlyPersonal Finance Want to Know the Economic Forecast? Check Your UnderwearFatherly - Matt Berical As tighty whities and boxer-briefs go, so goes the economy. Sort of. How is the U.S. economy doing? The answer depends on where’ you’re getting your …
Doug Shawflipped into EconomyEconomics From financial crisis to inequality — how economists got it wrongFinancial Times - Edward LuceFive years before the financial meltdown of 2008, Robert Lucas famously declared that “the central problem of depression-prevention has been solved . . . and it has been for many decades”. The University
Economics Edge: THE ECONOMIC MANHATTAN PROJECT — THE VIDEOSedge.org - www.edge.org Are all economists autistic? Perhaps some Physicists and Biologists can help us out of this predicament—in Waterloo, Canada, Nassim Nicholas Taleb …
Yahoo Australiaflipped into Yahoo Finance AustraliaRecession The ‘Undies Index’ and 3 other hidden indicators of a recessionyahoo.com - Anastasia Santoreneos Aussie stocks tanked this morning, with every sector losing at least 1.0 per cent, after a second day of significant falls on Wall Street. The ASX’s …
MarketWatchStock Markets ExFed boss Greenspan says there is no barrier to Treasury yields falling below zero - MarketWatchMarketWatch There is some $15 trillion in government debt that now yields less than zero, and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan believes there’s no …
Forbesflipped into TechnologyBank of Japan Negative Interest Rates In The United States: Not Any Time SoonForbes - Milton EzratiNegative interest rates have become commonplace in Europe and Japan these days. President Donald Trump has urged the Fed to drive rates down to zero and maybe into negative territory. Ex Fed Chairman Greenspan
Conservative View Everything About Negative Interest Rates with Bob Murphymises.org - Jeff Deist, Robert P. Murphy Europe and Asia are awash with $13 trillion in negative yield sovereign and corporate bonds. Alan Greenspan says negative interest rates are coming …
Seeking AlphaInvesting Follow The Fed Minutes And Purchase Vanguard's BNDSeeking Alpha - Josh Ortner With the Federal Reserve lowering rates for the second time this year, the one thing investors can be sure of is more unhappy tweets from President …
Stock Markets How to Position Yourself Now for a Bearyahoo.com - Jeff Remsburg In yesterday’s Digest, we began a new series from global investment strategist Eric Fry. In it, Eric highlighted how recessions and bear markets can …
Livemintflipped into MoneyIndia News Is there a Sitharaman Put in India?livemint.com - Neil Borate 'The Government actions are actually more powerful than the Greenspan Put which was more focused on fiscal policy,' said Shyam Sekhar, chief ideator …
Barron'sJanet Yellen The Federal Reserve Will Get Flak No Matter What It DoesBarron's - Randall W. Forsyth The Federal Reserve, having patched the plumbing problem in the money markets this past week, turned its attention to a different part of the …
The Washington PostEconomics How economists turned all of society into a marketThe Washington PostJames Kwak is a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law and the author, most recently, of “Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality.” Two decades before he became chair of Federal
Interest Rates Is There Any Lesser Authority Than Alan Greenspan?counterpunch.org - Dean Baker That is undoubtedly the question that readers of Robert Samuelson’s column on negative interest rates are asking. At one point Samuelson tells …
The Wall Street Journal.Economics When Presidents Pummel the FedThe Wall Street Journal. - Alan S. BlinderBefore Bill Clinton, such browbeating was the norm. Powell has endured Trump’s assaults with dignity. Two and a half cheers for my friend (that’s a disclosure) Jay Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve
Seeking AlphaInvesting Gold producers pledge restraint, remembering lessons of earlier bull surgeSeeking Alpha - Carl Surran Even as gold bullion trades near six-year highs, the sentiment in presentations and interviews from mining executives (NYSEARCA:GDX) at the Denver …
MarketWatchChina Opinion: Powell’s checklist spells out three risks the Fed must manageMarketWatch - By Caroline Baum Alan Greenspan gave us his “risk management” approach to monetary policy. Jerome Powell has outlined the risks that need to be managed. In so doing, …
The Evening Standardflipped into Business | Evening StandardBusiness (UK) Anthony Hilton: Bonds backers are blind to a bubble that risks new crashstandard.co.uk - Anthony Hilton It is hard to see how the world is going to prevent another financial crash if the bond market carries on as it is. The FT this month said that “about …
Forbesflipped into TechnologyBusiness Deciphering Corporate Speak: The Purpose Of A CorporationForbes - Betsy AtkinsThere has been a lot of reaction to the Business Roundtables “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation” where 180 CEO’s signed a statement on companies being responsive and committed to delivering value
Stuyvesant Millflipped into EU Bank of Japan Just Smile, and Pretend You're Absolutely and Unshakably Optimisticrealclearmarkets.com - Jeffrey Snider The setting was surely an uncomfortable one. After all, the mild recession had ended more than a year and a half before. The work of the policymaking …
Conservative View Does Trump want Fed 'boneheads' to employ negative interest rates? - Personal Liberty®personalliberty.com - by Bob Livingston President Donald Trump on Wednesday continued his attack on the Federal Reserve, tweeting that “The Federal Reserve should get our interest rates …
Business InsiderJamie Dimon Jamie Dimon reveals JPMorgan is already preparing for the possibility of zero-percent interest rates in the US (JPM)Business Insider - Ben Winck• JPMorgan Chase is preparing for the risk of zero-percent interest rates in the US, CEO Jamie Dimon said at a New York conference Tuesday.• The executive noted certain businesses are more affected by
Interest Rates Negative interest rates could happen in US10news.com - By: Jared Aarons SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - Investors are watching carefully to see if interest rates keep dropping, or if they may eventually dip below zero in the United …
CNBCETFs As investors scramble for income, these are the best dividend ETFs, according to MorningstarCNBC - Yun Li Companies with big dividends tend to have lower growth potential and some of them have difficulty in sustaining their dividend payments, whereas …
Marcos Vettaflipped into Bitcoin infoBitcoin Ex-Federal Reserve Chair Basically Called a Bitcoin Price Bull Runnewsbtc.com - Nick Chong This year, Bitcoin (BTC) has done astonishingly well. Year to date, the cryptocurrency’s price has gained some 200%, surging off an influx of …
the_manolusflipped into if this is Judaism, Hitler wonGold Greenspan: Rising Gold Price Shows Investors Want Hard Assets That Will Increase In Valuezerohedge.com - Tyler Durden During a CNBC interview, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said gold prices are surging because investors are looking for hard assets …
Markets Greenspan Going Negative, Markets Positive |investing.com - MrTopStep S&P 500 Futures: Weak Economic Data And Trade Tensions Send Stocks Lower After making an overnight Globex high of 2933.50, up at 9:08 am the …
