Jim Rogers and His Case for the Asian Century

Dear Laissez Faire Today Reader, Jeffrey Tucker What is the best single thing you can do for your children? Send […]

Looking Forward to the FOMC Meeting and Beyond: Speculations

By DoctoRx Here’s a guess about what the Fed will say Wednesday following the FOMC meeting.  There is no justification for […]

Crude Oil vs. Iran: Who Blinks First?

By EconMatters , Oil futures spiked more than 2% in one day to their highest level in nine months on […]

Eight Industries the U.S. Has Lost to China

By Charles B. Stockdale, Douglas A. McIntyre, 247Wall St site, Americans are used to the U.S. being the leader, or […]

The Biggest And Baddest Bubble Ever

The Biggest And Baddest Bubble Ever Bill Bonner, Contributor   Treasury Dept. The U.S. may be going broke, but perversely, people […]

Fed Pledge Let’s You Know The Fix Is In

by Peter Schiff,, Forbes, Last week’s wild actions on Wall Street should serve as a stark reminder that few investors […]

Hugo Salinas Price and Michael Pettis on the Trade Imbalance Dilemma; Gold’s Honest Discipline Revisited

By Mike “Mish” Shedlock, globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets gets to the heart of the trade imbalance issue […]

Debt ceiling showdown

By David Greenlaw and Ted Wieseman,  Morgan Stanley, A statutory limit on the amount of federal government debt outstanding has […]

The Stock Market Is Not the Economy

1. The Stock Market Is Not the Economy Was chatting with Minyanville Professor Conor Sen this morning about the market […]

Bin Laden Peace Dividend for Middle East?

The killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden could mean enhanced leverage for the United States in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, […]