THE American economy is once again tilting toward danger. Despite an aggressive regimen of treatments from the conventional to the exotic — more than $800 billion in federal spending, and...
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--U.S. stocks fluctuated between small gains and losses Monday as investors continued to fret over an economic slowdown while euphoria over increased deal activity waned....
It’s been a tug between the bulls and bears over the last few weeks. So which side will win out? Art Nunes, portfolio manager at IMS Capital Management, and John Browne, senior market...
Many economists have tried hard to make their work accessible to the general public, but few have succeeded.
Irwin Schiff was one of those that did.
Whatever you thought about his ideas - and...
The economic recovery “has slowed” the Federal Reserve said in its latest statement. Job creation remains anemic, foreclosures are on the rise and the threat of deflation is front...
Tuesday's announcement that the Fed will start buying Treasuries was a "watershed" moment for Ben Bernanke, says Michael Pento, senior economist at EuroPacific Capital....
Stocks stumbled Wednesday in an apparent rebuke of the Fed's announced plans to start using proceeds from mortgage- and agency-backed principal payments to buy U.S. Treasuries.
In recent...
How the once-mighty dollar has fallen -- again.
The dollar tumbled against the yen and euro Friday morning after July's U.S. job report brought more bad news. Private sector employers...