Ben Bernanke's Lone Positive Legacy
Thanks to the Fed chief, the gold standard will come back because it makes but one promise, to stabilize the value of money.
Bill Frezza, Contributor
Active conversation:
10 comments
Thanks to the Fed chief, the gold standard will come back because it makes but one promise, to stabilize the value of money.
Bill Frezza, Contributor
Active conversation:
10 comments
Wayne Crews, Contributor
Charles Kadlec, Contributor
Joel Kotkin, Contributor
Ted Cruz on the 10th Amendment, the budget, and his run for Senate.
Grover Norquist discusses the budget and his feud with Senator Coburn.
Wednesday, a jury found $7 billion Galleon Holdings founder, Raj Rajaratnam, guilty on 14 counts of insider trading. Does this mean it's safe for individual investors to get back into stocks? My conclusion is that the conviction does not make a difference to individual investors. read »
Property values down, property taxes up. read »
The French intellectual Guy Sorman has a longish piece in the Spring 2011 City Journal entitled “Japan, After March 11.” The caption is “The country, resilient as ever, remains Asia’s true power.” Sorman is considered a “classical liberal” thinker, and from the themes of his two most recent books--The Empire of Lies—The Truth About China in the Twenty-First Century (2006) and Economics Does Not Lie—A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis (2008)—I am sure that we would agree on a lot of[...] read »
This morning in China, we learned that the local trade surplus widened last month to $11.4 billion. That’s higher than any of the guesses that came from Wall Street. Exports for the red nation surged to a record high. read »
Will over half the voters continue to give the president a thumbs up in the weeks ahead?
Which lenders should you invest in to play fast-growing economies?
There has not been for decades, maybe centuries, a more exciting time to be part of and invest in the entertainment industry. Yes, I know that the Great Recession has hampered or hammered nearly every corner of the entertainment arts world. But consider this. Even during and seemingly despite the biggest economic downturn in 80 years, the entire infrastructure that delivers entertainment is undergoing an unprecedented technology revolution. read »
