Merrill over Matter

I previously mentioned an entertaining video regarding the competing economic theories of Keynes and Hayek.  Here is round two, and while i...

Some stuff I've been reading: Saudi's ready to pump more oil after OPEC disagreements.  Could get interesting if Saudi Arabia dec...

The Federal Reserve recently announced they will purchase another 600 Billion in US Treasury bonds (commonly called Quantitative Easing 2 ...

Hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry was recently on the BBC.  While his comments are directed towards the British economic situation they are ver...

Today the Federal Reserve altered their policy regarding principal payments on their Mortgage Backed Security holdings. From the press rel...

I have previously brought up the book 'This Time is Different" and how the history of sovereign defaults is very instructive consid...

Mr. Hugh Hendry is always fun to watch and even more so in this interview: He discusses the euro, china, George Soros and the 'axi...

Does a steep yield curve guarantee future economic growth?  Usually but maybe not this time. A recent article on BusinessInsider got me th...

I recently posted about the TED spread and how it had been marching higher (Murphy's law struck of course and it promptly reversed cour...

The equity markets are always inundated with economic news and indicators.  One of those indicators that 'doesn't really matter unti...

Here's two somewhat lengthy videos of Marc Faber.  I suggest you watch both and see what one man thinks about the past and future.  Whil...

Just a little clip from one of my favorite sci fi movies The Fifth Element.   Replace the unknown evil sphere with excessive debt. Gree...

This has been making the rounds and is actually pretty funny... :) Hippity Hop and Economics; you see them together all the time, right...