Immigration Bill Incentivizes Employers To Fire Americans and Hire Amnestied Immigrants
Obamacare is bad enough in and of itself. An immigration bill in the Senate is about to compound the problem. Brietbart reports Senate Bill Incentivizes...
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Uncle Sam’s Trillion-Dollar Portfolio Partly Offsets the Public Debt
When policy folks talk about America’s federal borrowing, their go-to measures are the public debt, currently $12 trillion, and its ratio to gross domestic product,...
Market Remains Woozy as It Tries to Get Off the Mat
Economic fears and Federal Reserve headlines continue to drive this market. The market opened firmly lower in today’s session as Chinese markets finished down more...
Options Activity Alert: YHOO, LVS, MED
YHOO – Yahoo! Inc. – Bearish options changing hands on Yahoo this morning indicate some traders are positioning for shares in the name to continue...
The Fed’s Targeting Inflation at 1%; It Just Doesn’t Know it Yet
It’s odd, but the best way to forecast price inflation is to look at wage inflation. In the years leading up to the Lehman crisis...
Those Airline Puts on 9/11 Were Easy Money…
Keith Alexander “The intel community failed to connect the dots in 9/11. And much of what we’ve done since then were to give us the...
Currency Stress Hits India: Rupee Near Record Low
Numerous foreign exchange issues have simultaneously hit the global economy recently. Latest on the list is India where a Funding Strain Grows as Fed Outlook...
Golden Minerals Suspends Production Until Gold & Silver Prices Rise to a “Sustainable Cash Margin”
The plunging paper prices for gold and silver are making mining operations no longer sustainable (at the paper futures prices). One of the first casualties...
New Fears Grip Egypt’s Investors
Egypt's economy remains in a precarious state. As if the pressure on emerging markets is not enough, the planned anti-government protest could end up involving...
Is Financial Globalisation in Retreat?
This column suggests it might be. There’s been a recent and significant retreat in European financial integration and a retrenchment of global banking (although capital...