Markets

Apr 05, 2003 at 00:00

Following the stock market crash in 1987, the government created something called the President's Working Group on Financial Markets.The group, which includes the Treasury secretary, Federal Reserve chairman, chairman of…

Mar 29, 2003 at 00:00

In essence, the ability of central banks to manipulate their currencies for more than a short time was gone. Even acting in concert, central banks do not have the real…

Mar 24, 2003 at 00:00

We look briefly at the uncertainty surrounding the US economy and then look at the economic, investment and geopolitical implications of the long term consequences of international demographic changes, which…

Mar 17, 2003 at 00:00

If actual pension liabilities had been counted in financial statements, aggregate earnings for the S&P 500 would have been 69 percent lower than the companies reported for 2001, or $68.7…

Jul 17, 2003 at 00:00

All of this is actually quite positive. So the best advise to gold bugs is relax. If you are long and willing to go through the ups and downs stay…

Jul 07, 2003 at 00:00

Japan has broken out on the charts. Indeed it broke out about 7 weeks ago. So why are we so belated in telling everyone about it? Our prime reason is…

Jun 25, 2003 at 00:00

If Freddie and Fannie could potentially blow up because of derivatives irregularities then there is the potential for others to blow up. We are reminded that while Freddie and Fannie…

Jun 11, 2003 at 00:00

The concern of the monetary authorities is that the economy is weak, therefore a combination of low interest rates and massive injections of liquidity should allow for economic stabilization followed…

Jun 02, 2003 at 00:00

What investors do not understand, nor many others for that matter, is that markets and the economy move in cycles. Of course if they do think of cycles they think…

May 27, 2003 at 00:00

The coming collapse of the US$ will be the biggest currency crisis we have ever seen even though we have come off of a decade of currency crises. The British…