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Susan Walker
4/8/2008 5:15:00 PM
General David Petraeus and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke are both dealing with Gordian knot problems -- one on the war front and the other on the economic front, And George Soros has some of his own thoughts on the subject of the financial system turned into Godzilla.
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recession, Soros, Petraeus, Bernanke, monetary policy, financial markets
Category:
Economy
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Nico Isaac
4/4/2008 4:30:00 PM
From the “Today Show” to the “Tonight Show,” the Situation Room to the locker room, and the cocktail party to the carpool lane, one issue has taken center stage: U.S. recession -- Are we OR Aren’t we there yet?
Filed Under:
recession, Wall Street, ben bernanke, Federal Reserve, interest rates, U.S. economy
Category:
Economy
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Susan Walker
3/25/2008 6:00:00 PM
These are the times that try men's souls, wrote Thomas Paine in 1776, referring to the North American colonists' revolt from British rule. And now, referring to the U.S. economy, we can equally say that these are the economic times that try the national soul. Whereas last year and in years earlier, we here at Elliott Wave International warned about the tough times to come in the economy, today's news stories are full of woe.
Filed Under:
Thomas Paine, recession, Gold
Category:
Economy
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Robert Folsom
3/13/2008 2:30:00 PM
Once upon a time, the U.S. government created the secondary mortgage market. (During FDR's New Deal, if you're dying to know). With help from the agency known as Fannie Mae, this government creation grew tall and strong. What's more, the government held a virtual monopoly over its creation for several decades -- and after all, the market was its creation....
Filed Under:
credit crunch, Freddie Mac, government bonds, great depression, Real Estate, real-estate, recession, subprime, subprime mortgage, subprime mortgages, Wall Street
Category:
Economy
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Vadim Pokhlebkin
3/9/2008 10:00:00 PM
You watch financial news, you know what's going on. Spooked by "concerns over a potential U.S. recession," investors are dumping shares on both sides of the pond. But if you ask us, what's going on here is as old as investing itself: fear and greed. Fear and greed move investors. Fear and greed move market prices, too.
Filed Under:
recession, dax, fear, greed, european stocks, India Nifty, SENSEX, S&P CNX NIfty, China Shanghai Composite, iShares FTSE/Xinhua China Trust, iShares MSCI Emerging Index
Category:
European Markets
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Robert Folsom
3/7/2008 5:15:00 PM
Yesterday I said that the Economist magazine had just published a favorable review of a book about the housing market crisis. The author is a respected financial journalist, and a thumbs up from a publication like the Economist suggests a book that deserves to be taken seriously. But consider these other quotes, specifically the "who" & "when" behind them...
Filed Under:
Bear market, conquer the crash, deflation, Fed rate cut, Federal Reserve, Real Estate, recession, subprime, subprime mortgages, Wall Street
Category:
Real Estate
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Robert Folsom
3/6/2008 6:00:00 PM
The Economist magazine published a favorable review today of a book about the housing market crisis, and one comment from the review kind of jumped off the page: "The story has no single villain, but Alan Greenspan comes close. Under him, the Federal Reserve fuelled the housing boom by sharply cutting the cost of short-term money." So, from "Maestro" to "Villain" -- how's that for a reversal of fortune?
Filed Under:
banking, Fed, Federal Reserve, Greenspan, personal finance, recession, Wall Street
Category:
Economy
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Susan Walker
3/6/2008 4:30:00 PM
The Super Tuesday primaries are history, and we still don't know who will be the Democratic and Republican nominees for the U.S. presidency this year. It's a situation similar to not yet knowing whether the U.S. economy has already slipped into a recession.
Filed Under:
recession, Super Bowl, Super Tuesday, conquer the crash
Category:
Economy
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Robert Folsom
2/28/2008 6:00:00 PM
It's safe to assume that the "experts" really don't see this news as bad enough for me to jump out a window. So, when they say "don't panic," they probably mean something along the lines of: "Don't remove your money from the bank... or, for that matter, from the stock market either"....
Filed Under:
bank of america, credit crunch, Federal Reserve, Freddie Mac, Freddie Mae, recession, Wall St.
Category:
Economy
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Robert Folsom
2/25/2008 5:15:00 PM
Now, all this data sums up a clear-enough picture of the housing trend. It's uniformly bad. If your home's value stands anywhere near today's median price, you are approximately $30,000 poorer than you were 20 months ago. So why spell all this out? Heck, everyone knows the housing situation is ugly, with our without reading the particulars. My reason for putting the facts before you begins with this quote, which was typical of what stock market stories were saying around 11:00am this morning...
Filed Under:
Federal Reserve, mortgage, Real Estate, recession
Category:
Real Estate
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Susan Walker
2/25/2008 1:45:00 PM
The U.S. government held an auction of its 30-year Treasury bonds today, but hardly anyone wanted to buy them at the anticipated 4.41% yield. They ended up going at 4.449%. One dealer called it a "massive boycott."
Filed Under:
Treasury bonds, recession
Category:
Interest Rates
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Susan Walker
2/5/2008 11:15:00 AM
Some analysts point out that during recessions, people often trade down from the stores they normally shop at. By that token, as Target loses sales, Wal-Mart and wholesalers like Costco gain sales.But the question may become, where will cash-strapped consumers go to buy their goods when they can't even afford Wal-Mart's usual low prices?
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Wal-Mart, recession, deflation
Category:
Economy
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Editorial Staff
2/5/2008 10:45:00 AM
Does the Fed really know what it's doing? It seems like that's the fairy tale that most people want to believe.
Filed Under:
Federal Reserve, Fed, recession
Category:
Classic Prechter
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