Posts Tagged ‘Good’
Today, 376,000 startled new citizens of Planet Earth will gulp their first breaths. Of the 351,000 who live to see their fifth birthday, 16,000 will owe their good fortune to rising wealth, increased vaccination, better sanitation and other improvements made over the past three decades.
For 4,000 of them, the difference between life and death will [...]
Well, its only 15 minutes post but TMM can lay claim to a few things:
1) Our non-prediction was not wrong. Not bad.
2) Now that the alcohol and post-QEtal glow are wearing off, it might be time to get back to business and some actual themes aside from the dong-measuring contest that has been the last [...]
By Sara Nunnally, Editor, Smart Investing Daily, TaipanPublishingGroup.com
Back in mid-August, I told you about new growth in investments in emerging markets. I even noted a couple exchange-traded funds that might benefit from such growth.
I talked about the iShares MSCI Turkey Investable Market ETF (TUR:NYSE) and the Market Vectors Indonesia ETF (IDX:NYSE), and [...]
TMM can’t help but notice that with FX moves like this all reasonable expectations or predictions of price levels makes discussing commodity target prices or inflation pretty surreal. It’s a mathematical fact that if the dollar goes to zero then silver in dollars goes to infinity and for the meantime the dollar debasement theme song [...]
By blaming the economic collapse on supposedly “free markets” and greedy investors with a “culture of narrow self-interest and short-term gain at the expense of everything else,” the White House created more regulation, putting even more of the financial sector in government hands.
An official policy of redistribution to autoworkers, bankers and “struggling homeowners” reinforces the administration’s [...]
Quotable
“ I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible. The reason I am is because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. The question is, “How do you hold down government spending?” Government spending now amounts [...]
China’s passenger car sales rose 59.3% y/y in August, marked improvement from the 15.4% y/y rise seen in July
Departing White House economist Romer: US budget deficit cannot be excuse for leaving unemployed to suffer. US has tools that would bring unemployment rate down, must find will to use them
Currency trading growth slowed amid crisis, BIS [...]
Tomorrow, the FOMC meeting taking place has brought about speculation that the Fed may increase quantitative easing to “stimulate” the economy after a recent round of deteriorating economic data. While the current “extend and pretend” policies our government is following have failed to help people find jobs, the Fed may take it upon itself to [...]
