Case-Shiller Home Prices Rise 5 Percent Year-Over-Year
Standard & Poor’s reported that the Case-Shiller 10-City Home Price Index rose 4.5 percent from a year ago in November and that the 20-City Home...
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About That Money Flowing Into Stocks
Here’s what that much talked about influx of money from retail investors into... looks like going back six years using data from the Investment Company...
Poor Tim Harford
As a counterbalance to my own somewhat gloomy take on the near-term prospects for precious metals as noted here a short time ago in It’s...
Americans Increasingly Concerned About National Debt
A new Pew Research poll makes it clear...at Americans see...e national debt and ongoing $1+ trillion budget deficits as a big concern. In...e detailed data...
A “Triple-Dip” Recession in the U.K.?
Across the pond in the U.K., they’re now starting to talk about the possibility of a “triple-dip” recession as the British economy contracted by 0.3...
The Economy Under President Obama
From this item at the Wall Street Journal earlier in the week comes the graphic below depicting the course of the U.S. economy during President...
Debt-to-GDP and Misdiagnosing a Bubble Economy’s Ills
A few economists seem to be catching on, but not... enough… About a year ago, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard wondered whether too much...
Confidence in the Economy Surges after Fiscal Cliff Deal
Here’s a somewhat surprising development in how Americans see the U.S. economy and their own futures. According to this Gallup survey , confidence in the...
U.S. Debt the Top Threat to Global Economy
It appears that more and more people are growing tired and, more importantly, concerned about U.S. lawmakers “kicking... can down... road” over and over when...
If You Own Silver, Do You Really Need Mining Stocks?
[Some thoughts about the relative merits of silver bullion and mining stocks in an investment portfolio.] Though I still own a fair amount of gold...