The productive elements of the US economy are caught between powerful financial interests, e.g., banks seeking speculative gains, political constituencies seeking entitlements and government entities at all levels whose budgets and deficits are too large compared to their revenues. All three factions...
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Ron Hera
on Mon, Jul 19 2010
Filed under: Federal reserve, debt, GDP, Asia, Asian Tigers, China, central bank, Federal Budget, unemployment, Deindustrialization, Bailouts, Capitalism, Corporatism, Trade Deficit, Socialism, Totalitarianism, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Service Economy
Among the many opinions expressed by billionaire investor George Soros over the course of the 2010 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland was his statement on January 28 in an interview with Maria Bartiromo , host of CNBC's Closing Bell , that "When interest rates are low we have conditions...
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Ron Hera
on Sun, Jan 31 2010
Filed under: US dollar, CPI, inflation, GDP, China, Gold, World Economic Forum, M3, MB, Euro, Davos