US Protectionism and the Domino Effect

As Obama steps up to the plate to become US President, and with the world still twisting in agony from the turbulent and never-ending Financial Crisis, what will he do to assure US business and industry ? Will he maintain the Free Economic Markets ? Or will he be forced to throw in the towel [...]

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Mr Obama, US Fiscal Debt and the Lazy, Lazy Dollar

On January 20th there will be a new President in office and with this event – so we are told – a new era of economic hope will unfold and come into being. It seems that President Obama intends to introduce another massive stimulus into the American economy, with hugely funded infrastructure projects to encourage [...]

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Ron Paul Schooling Ben Bernanke

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The Ravages of Ignored US Debt

The majority of American citizens probably have no actual idea of their country’s real fiscal debt. From the film I.O.U.S.A., David Walker describes it this way:
‘When many Americans think of debt and deficits, their knee-jerk reaction is to blame the war in Iraq, or defense spending. Some people think that we can solve the country’s [...]

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Deep Oil, Deep Power and Deep Pockets

Within the broil of geopolitical opinion, political correctness, shadow agendas and trite, posturing exchanges between world leaders, it is certainly difficult to sort out the truth form the drivel. When we are told something of earth shattering importance by a mega-country politician we then always have to analyze and decode it. In its first tellings [...]

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Fannie and Freddie Bailout: Opinions and Wrath

So the decision has finally and predictably been made and the US government will now pay out huge sums of taxpayer’s money to take over both Freddie an Fannie.
Here are some expert opinions and comments from The Gurus regarding this buy-off :
Jim Rogers says: “I don’t know where these guys get the audacity to take [...]

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