Archive for: Federal Reserve

Weekend: Deja Vu All Over Again

Welcome to the Wealth Daily Weekend Edition — our insights from the week in investing and links to our most-read Wealth Daily and sister publication articles....

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Fleckenstein Pins High Prices on the Fed

Fleckenstein Pins High Prices on the Fed

  Here’s a great video in which Bill Fleckenstein explains the root cause of soaring prices in practically everything to Dylan Ratigan . Not surprisingly,...

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Silver Near a 31-Year High

Silver Near a 31-Year High

Filed under: Major Movement , Competitive Strategy , Barrick Gold (ABX) , Commodities , Federal Reserve Back in the late 1970s, the Hunt brothers from Texas tried...

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Inflation in (Mostly) the Wrong Places

It is often claimed that inflation is a benign, even positive, force. People assume that prices, wages, and assets will all rise together… In the real world,...

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Three Garbage Stocks

Three Garbage Stocks

The market goes up everyday… This two-year chart represents the thirty varsity players on the U.S. economic court. You might look at this 100% gain in two...

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Weekend: The Fool Proof Retirement Plan

Welcome to the Wealth Daily Weekend Edition — our insights from the week in investing and links to our most-read Wealth Daily and sister publication articles....

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NEWSFLASH: The Meltdown Didn’t Have to Happen

NEWSFLASH: The Meltdown Didn’t Have to Happen

Watching the government do practically anything is often akin to watching molasses run down the hill in January. But like that slow running ooze, even the government...

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The Fed Blows a Cupcake Bubble

The number one cupcake play in America is going public. Crumbs Bake Shop operates 34 cupcake stores from New York to California, humorously billing itself as “creator...

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The $600 Billion Gamble

The $600 Billion Gamble

  I’ve spilled so much ink on QE2 at this point that I must be beginning to sound like a broken record. So I’ll let this story speak for itself…....

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Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) on U.S. Dollar, Euro

Bank of America Corp.’s (NYSE:BAC) head of Americas G- 10 currency strategy at Bank of America Corp. in New York, Paresh Upadhyaya, commented on the relationship...

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Jobs Report Disappoints Despite Lower Unemployment Rate

Jobs Report Disappoints Despite Lower Unemployment Rate

Filed under: Forecasts , Employees , Market Matters , Economic Data , Federal Reserve , Recession The Labor Department reported that employers added 103,000 jobs...

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It’s Funny How We Get The Perfect Job Number

It’s Funny How We Get The Perfect Job Number

Earlier this week on January 5th, 2011 the payroll processing company ADP reported that the U.S. economy had added 297,000 jobs. The economists went wild raising...

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