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The Results Are In: The Price of Down Is Up

Well, our inflation survey results are in. Thank you to everyone who participated, particularly those who shared frustrating examples of […]

Oxstones Food for Thought – February 2013 – Bathing Abe ready to flood neighbors and set the stage for the next asset bubble and crisis!

By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, Chief Investment Strategist, Oxstones Investment Club History Prime Minister Abe and the LDP party are […]

U.S. Farm Bills Fuel Food Price Inflation

U.S. Farm Bills Fuel Food Price Inflation  From NIA, The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 expired at the […]

5 Worst Housing Markets for 2013

By Jerry Kronenberg BOSTON (TheStreet) — The U.S. housing sector has apparently turned a corner — but some big cities […]

Is the Refi ‘Apocalypse’ Really Upon Us?

By Diana Olick   Mortgage rates today are very low, but U.S. borrowers have a very short memory. They forget […]

Commodities Rise While U.S. Stocks Fluctuate Before Fed

By Stephen Kirkland, Rita Nazareth & Sarah Pringle – Bloomberg Commodities rose and U.S. benchmark stock indexes fluctuated near five-year […]

How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size

IT is a prevailing myth in Washington: big bailouts are over for good. Never again, the line goes, could giant […]

TO: President Obama

FROM: Martin S. Indyk and Robert Kagan, Brookings Institute, http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/01/a-plastic-moment-to-mold-a-liberal-global-order As you enter your second term, the state of the […]

The Next Great Bubble about to Collapse

Senator Orrin Hatch warns that the bubble has the power to “destroy the retirement savings of millions of Americans.” Famed […]

The Stock Market

Haven’t blogged in a while. So I decided to look back and pull out one of my first blog posts, […]