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Is Ghadhafi dead or alive? Was he shot? U.S. government sources cannot provide any information with almost every American in country awaiting evacuation.
Continue Reading →Political unrest in Libya and other north African and middle-eastern nations, as well as here at home in Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana pushed markets into absolute turmoil today.
Continue Reading →After a rapid crash in 2008 to just over 6,400 on Inauguration Day 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has nearly doubled, reaching 12,286 with intraday trading bringing it even higher.
Continue Reading →Some exuberantly optimistic economists are now saying that the recession is over and going so far as to predict more than 2% increase in home sales in 2010.
Continue Reading →They say that stock markets predict economic conditions six months before the conditions impact the overall economy. What happens when markets act irrationally?
Continue Reading →On March 26th, The Institute’s Journal of Economics published an article entitled “Any Bonds Today?” Now the government is promoting Bailout Bonds. We wonder if the Journal had any influence?
Continue Reading →When companies, whether in the fields of finance, banking or insurance, or for that matter, any other industry, create new types of financial instruments, should they be immediately subject to regulatory review?
Continue Reading →Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble, this witches brew it does o’er take, truth and liberty to forsake. Witches brew and media make, a boiling cauldron at the stake. Doth Geithner go or Geithner stay, this hell-cooked brew may rue the day.
With apologies to Mr. Shakespeare, we’ve taken the [...]
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