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Showing posts with label recession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recession. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Uncertainty

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With far too much of the world gripped in a panic induced by a pandemic, I've been contemplating how poorly the vast majority of humans ...
Saturday, November 03, 2012

Why I Am Voting for Mitt Romney

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Earlier this year, I would have told you that I was voting against Barack Obama because I didn’t expect to have a candidate I could vote for...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Germany Removing Gold From the Fed

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German courts want an auditing all its gold holdings and has begun moving 50 tons a year from the Fed to Germany. This is very interesting ...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Runaway Inflation Is Now Unavoidable

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Bernanke has chosen to do the worst thing possible and that is an open ended qualitative easing . If you have savings or an IRA, expect to l...
Friday, May 04, 2012

Let’s Twist Again

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To all those who are so insulated by wealth and luck, it will come as a shock when things do fall completely apart economically. Part of bei...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Dueling Banjos

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Sometimes it seems like politics is all about who shouts the loudest, but the reality is that the winner is often the one allowed to shout t...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Bad Moon Rising

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There are those who actually believe we emerged out of the recession and are worried we are going into another. Well, we aren’t. We never go...
Friday, July 01, 2011

The Shutdown

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The big news in Minnesota is the state government shutdown due to an inability to get a budget passed. As I expected, the media is backing G...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Comic Books and Economic Realities

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Back in high school, I was a serious collector of comic books. Financial problems for the family compelled me to sell off my collection for ...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Odds and Ends

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Will be working on a post about the Tea Party in Winona last week and about the Republican Congressional District 1 endorsement convention t...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

State of Disunion Speech

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Well, that was a dismal performance last night.  Watching the talking heads on PBS try to spin the State of the Union speech being a great p...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Rekindling the American Dream

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A plan to get America out of the financial crisis. I normally don’t post material written by others, but when I read this message put out ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

What Recovery?

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I find it fascinating how government agencies such as the Commerce Department fudges numbers for media consumption. They put out projected n...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Another Debt Crisis or Two

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Ran across a few interesting economic pieces last week, but didn’t feel well enough to write about them. Fortunately, or more accurately unf...
Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Economic Worries in Europe

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Plus a Black Friday Update There are a couple of worrisome reports from the Telegraph today, one about Germany and the other about the UK....
Friday, November 27, 2009

Black Friday and a Hint of Black Tuesday

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Another day and more bad economic news. It is the day after Thanksgiving, when minds turn toward shopping for Christmas presents that ofte...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Shocking Unemployment Map

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Watch this animated map of unemployment shown county by county for the entire US and weep.  It starts out before the recession officially b...

The Bears Are Coming Out

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123 banks have failed so far this year and despite the run up in stocks things are looking worse as the effects of the stimulus end.  Check ...
Monday, November 16, 2009

So How’s That Economic Recovery Going?

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A lot of media spin has been about how we are recovering economically despite the lack of jobs. After all, the stock market keeps going up a...
Saturday, November 07, 2009

Weekend Links: The Economy

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It was quite a week for developments on the economic front.  I wish I could report it was good news. First off, official unemployment hit 1...