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Bank Lending: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?

Posted: March 5, 2013 at 10:40 am

The conventional wisdom says that low interest rates encourage banks to lend more because more borrowers come knocking on the door. So why, when the Fed funds rate is as ...
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Eight Industries the U.S. Has Lost to China

Posted: January 24, 2012 at 6:44 am

Americans are used to the U.S. being the leader, or a top-ranked nation, in many areas. But in a number of industries and businesses, the U.S. has lost that first ...
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The Eight Outrageous Costs Of The War On Terror

Posted: July 5, 2011 at 5:40 am

For the first time in U.S. history, America is fighting wars -- in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan --  funded almost entirely by U.S. government borrowing. This is according to Catherine Lutz, ...
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Why The Dow Will Plunge To 7,000

Posted: June 28, 2011 at 6:54 am

One theory of economics says that any market can return to a point where it has been in the past. The Great Recession was, by some measures as bad as ...
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Why Warren Buffett Is Right About The Recession And Economists Are Wrong

Posted: September 23, 2010 at 2:56 pm

Warren Buffet, who appears on CNBC so often that he probably gets invited to its holiday party,  told the cable channel's Becky Quick this morning what anyone who has a ...
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Individual Investors Like Stocks Again — Reallly

Posted: September 21, 2010 at 4:19 pm

Are happy days here again?  That's the implication of a report from Bespoke Investment Group LLC, which argued that individual investors may be returning to stocks. Bespoke found that there ...
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The Recession Is Over, Long Live The Recession

Posted: September 20, 2010 at 11:03 am

The recession ended last June, according to those who decide--the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research. The economy has been in an expansion since then, ...
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