Economy

As we know, central bankers hate deflation.  They fear deflation almost more than they fear high rates of inflation.  Central bankers hate deflation because the ……Read More

As we ring in the New Year, let’s take stock of where we are at with the oil markets. 2014 proved to be a momentous ……Read More

While the mainstream media has long forgotten WikiLeaks and its release of United States Embassy cables, there is one key cable from December 2007 that ……Read More

The most recent plunge in oil prices caught most of the world by surprise, however, given the short-term market supply and demand fundamentals, a price ……Read More

A paper by Dowell Myers and SungHo Ryu at the University of Southern California looks at what could be the ultimate bursting of the housing ……Read More

There is an interesting leading economic indicator that gets very little attention from the mainstream media.  Most often, the mainstream media uses a combination of ……Read More