News
Bloomberg | Fed Likely to Focus on Housing-Debt Purchases in Any Move to Spur Economy
Federal Reserve policy makers will probably buy mortgage bonds should the economy warrant more easing, with purchases of all debt totaling $500 billion, according to economists in a Bloomberg News survey.
FOX Business | Fed Likely to Leave Interest Rates Unchanged
The Federal Reserve is widely expected to provide Wall Street with more of the same Wednesday – that is cautious maintenance of the same monetary policy in place now for over three years.
Econ Comments & Analysis
WSJ | Lagarde for $1 Trillion
The IMF's Christine Lagarde delivered a speech in Berlin Monday warning that, without dramatic action, the world risked another Great Depression. The next day the Fund followed up by cutting its global growth estimate for 2012 to 3.3% and warned that Europe's debt crisis could sink the world economy.
AEI | Why are interest rates presently so low?
Despite frequent, dire warnings about the unsustainability of government budget deficits in the United States, Europe and Japan, investors are lining up to lend to some governments at very low interest rates.
MSN Money | Is it time to fight the Fed?
The axiom says when central banks provide stimulus, markets will rise, so investors should follow along. But this year, counting on central banks could cost you.
Blogs
Daily Capitalist | Where Gold Comes From And Where It Goes
This great graphic on gold production and usage came from Trustable Gold, a company that provides information on purchasing gold by comparing the different investment opportunities.
Minyanville | Central Banks' Cash Helping Investors Look the Other Way
The Central Banks are printing and loaning and lending and swapping that mean, oh mean, mean green. And so far it’s working as the NASDAQ (QQQ) is on a tear, along with the S&P 500 (SPY), the Dow (^DJI), the Euro STOXX (FEZ), China (FXI) and most every index on the globe.
