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In Davos, protectionism is a dirty word This is what happens when a country loses half a million jobs a month, and when the state becomes sp...

Hedge fund to offer shares priced in gold Shares, which are normally quoted in a currency such as sterling or dollars, are to be available i...

U.S . GDP was down an annual rate of 3.8% The University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment rose from 60.1 to 61.2 U.S. employm...

Why dealing with the huge debt overhang is so hard Let us start with some facts. The ratio of US public and private debt to gross domestic ...

U.S. jobless claims rose 3,000 last week to 588,000. The number of Americans drawing jobless benefits for a week or longer rose to 4,776,00...

Brave new connections The argument, simplified, goes like this: by dint of population, geography and culture, America is best placed to lea...

Obama said he's confident he will get his $900 billion economic stimulus bill approved. (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday sa...

U.S. consumer confidence fell from 38.6 to 37.7 in January -- a record low. YoY the S&P’s/Case-Shiller index of home prices fell 18.2% i...

U.S. existing home sales were at an annual rate of 4.74 million units, up 6.5% MoM, stronger than expected U.S. leading indicators rose 0.3...

Bad news: we're back to 1931. Good news: it's not 1933 yet It is worth glancing at the front page of New York Times on Monday March ...

Asian Stocks Rise as Shippers Advance on Fees; Contractors Drop The Baltic Dry Index , a measure of shipping costs for commodities, gained 3...

Bet against a sovereign government if you dare That’s an opening the size of the Gotthard Tunnel for any government that decides it doesn’t...

Biblical debt jubilee may be the only answer There is no guarantee that the measures will succeed. The vast scale of government borrowing ma...

When markets turn GEORGE SOROS, one of the original hedge-fund managers, believes that every boom in the making is tested. Often the poten...

(Reuters) President Barack Obama said on Friday he expected an $ 825 billion economic recovery plan to be approved by his target of mid-Febr...

Merrill Lynch CEO Thain Spent $1.22 Million On Office Area Rug $87,784 Mahogany Pedestal Table $25,713 19th Century Credenza $68,179 Pendant...

U.S. jobless claims rose 62,000 to 589,000. U.S. housing starts fell 15.5% MoM and 33% YoY. Canada’ s retail sales fell 2.4% The U.S. De...

U.K. unemployment rate rose to 6.1% from 6.0% Canada ’s wholesale sales fell 1.6% in November. Brazil cut interest rate a full point to 12...

Options on Eurodollars to Let Traders Bet on Negative Rates This is sensible contingency planning as you don’t want to be caught out by some...

Stock markets often decline on inauguration day I will say, however, that sentiment in recent days has finally taken steps in the right dire...

UK cannot take Iceland's soft option Britain has foreign reserves of under $61bn dollars (£43.7bn), less than Malaysia or Thailand. The ...

.. know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. Obama Inaugural Address

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. financial losses from the credit crisis may reach $3.6 trillion, suggesting the banking system is “effectively insolvent...

If the state can't save us, we need a licence to print our own money It bypasses greedy banks. It recharges local economies. It's ti...

U.S. stimulus not enough, TARP bailout misused: Soros "If they are successful...the deflationary pressures will be replaced by the spec...

RBS fell almost 67% after warning that it could face losses of up to £28bn for 2008 - the largest ever in UK corporate history. The U.K. has...

Monetary union has left half of Europe trapped in depression Don't expect tremors before an earthquake – and there is no fault line of g...

21,000 Jobs Worldwide Erased in Day as Recession Chokes Demand About 2.1 million U.S. jobs will be lost in 2009, Lonski predicted, with 80 p...

Citigroup’s Pandit Tries to Save the Little That’s Left to Lose Relief isn’t in sight. North American credit-card losses, as a percentage o...

Forgive and Forget? And to protect and defend the Constitution, a president must do more than obey the Constitution himself; he must hold ...

Our world may be a giant hologram Fermilab scientists have found anomalous "holographic noise" in their GEO600 gravitational-wave ...

U.S. industrial production fell 2.0% in December, and 7.8% YoY U.S. Consumer prices fell 0.7% in December. YoY prices rose 0.1% -- a half-c...

The White House Moron Stumbles to the Finish In 2002 I designated George W. Bush “the White House Moron.” If there ever was any doubt abou...

U.S . retail sales fell 2.7% in December, the sixth consecutive decline. Industrial production in the Euro area fell 1.6% MoM, and 7.7% YoY...

Shipping rates hit zero as trade sinks Freight rates for containers shipped from Asia to Europe have fallen to zero for the first time sinc...

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Benanke warned that a fiscal stimulus won’t be enough to spur an economic recovery and that the...

No need for condoms – GE corn can do the job New research from Austria shows that a commercial strain of Monsanto-made GE corn causes mice ...

The bond bubble has long since burst: investors, ignore this at you peril The Fed's December minutes reek of fear . The Bernanke team is...

The hundred years' war How growing rejectionism, the rise of religion, a new military doctrine and a new cold war keep peace at bay

Merrill Lynch says rich turning to gold bars for safety "They are so worried they want a portable asset in their house. I never thought...

Europe's economy contracts at rates not seen since 1930s Jacques Cailloux, from the Royal Bank of Scotland, said the pace of contractio...

The U.S. Labor Department said that jobless claims were down 24,000 last week to 467,000. The Bank of England cut rates from 2% to 1.5%, t...

'Buy USA' push may see America slip from free trade church Pascal Lamy, the WTO chief, is so worried he has taken to displaying port...

The U.S. budget deficit in 2009 is projected to spike to a record $1.2 trillion, or 8.3% of GDP. Employer Services’ report that payrolls s...

From Wall Street to Washington It's All One Big Lie The first panel to testify included H. David Kotz, the Inspector General of the SEC...

One clear sign of the End Time is when the media starts publishing my opinions on the economy. wonder what people mean when they say the ec...

US stockmarket returns Booms and busts Comparisons to the Depression are clear: only in 1931 and 1937 were there similarly abysmal losses

(Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama said he expects to inherit a $1 trillion budget deficit and that similar shortfalls are in stor...

U.S. construction spending fell 0.6% MoM and 3.3% YoY. The N.Y. Fed said that it has begun buying fixed rate mortgage backed securities, as ...