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Roubini: A Tale of Two Recoveries

Economist/rock star Nouriel Roubini writes in the Globe and Mail about the two very different "recoveries" underway for the U.S. economy. While the United States recently reported 3.5 per cent GDP growth in the third quarter, suggesting that the most ...

From TIM IACONO, Seeking Alpha,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nouriel Roubini

Asset Bubbles as the Path to Recovery: I Think We're Turning Japanese

President Obama is in Asia, talking with various trading partners about the future of the global economy. The topic of America's biggest exports - U.S. dollars and asset bubbles - is likely to come up during these discussions unless, somehow, they've ...

From TIM IACONO, Seeking Alpha,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation,  World Bank,  Barack Obama,  Wall Street Journal,  Robert Zoellick

William White: 'It's 2003 All Over Again'

Imagine you are a central banker. You arrive at the office each morning and scan the daily financial pages and newswires. You read that markets -- stocks, junk bonds, gold, oil -- are positively giddy due to “all the liquidity sloshing around that has ...

From TIM IACONO, Seeking Alpha,  11 Nov 2009

Gold ETF Adds a Little Metal to Its Inventory

It's funny that, for about four or five months earlier in the year, news outlets like Reuters would cite any changes to the inventory at the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (NYSEArca:GLD) in their morning report on the gold market, sometimes in the headline. That ...

From TIM IACONO, Seeking Alpha,  10 Nov 2009

How Much Has the Stock Market Really Progressed Since the Days of Vanderbilt?

There was an excellent story in WSJ about "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt's 19th century railroad empire as it relates to Warren Buffet's acquisition of Burlington Northern (BNI). The article covered a lot about the history of the railroads as well as ...

From TIM IACONO, ETF Investor,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Warren Buffett,  Burlington Northern

Fixing the Economy by Breaking it Yet Again

The op-ed section of the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal offers another look at Austrian economics as it relates to the ongoing economic crisis in this commentary by hedge fund manager Mark Spitznagel. The Man Who Predicted the ...

From TIM IACONO, ETF Investor,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Reserve,  Wall Street Journal,  Ludwig von Mises,  David Ricardo,  David Hume

The New Version of Depression Apple Selling

Anyone who has lived in the southwestern part of the U.S. for any length of time over the past few decades will surely appreciate how grave the situation has become for some Americans when considering that the ranks of day laborers standing on street ...

From TIM IACONO, ETF Investor,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ken Buchanan,  George Lopez,  Home Depot, Inc.,  University of California

More Fodder for Inflation/Deflation Debate: Higher Gasoline Prices

Those thinking that we've seen the last of inflation for a while might want to have a look at what gasoline prices have been doing lately; that is, relative to a year ago. For the second straight week, the national average for the price at the pump was ...

From TIM IACONO, ETF Investor,  5 Nov 2009

Cause for Concern: No Change from the Fed

Aside from a reduction in the purchase of GSE debt from $200 billion to $175 billion, there were no substantive changes to the Federal Reserve's policy statement today after the central bank concluded two days of deliberation. Naturally, the ...

From TIM IACONO, Seeking Alpha,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Reserve

India's Gold Grab Boosts Metal's Price

Yeah, right. Had Strauss-Kahn known that this sale would make the gold price shoot up $20 an ounce, now looking like it's bent on hitting $1,100, maybe he'd have kept the news to himself. Central banks around the world that are sooooo anxious to ...

From TIM IACONO, Seeking Alpha,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: International Monetary Fund

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