The establishment of financial rating agencies was a safeguard for investors who could get reliable information and accounting of financial firms. However, the rating agencies credibility needs to be challenged. The recent demise of major firms such as Bear Sterns, AIG and Lehmann were not in any rating downgrade “free fall” from a rating agency. This puts into perspective the lack of...

Wall Street Grand is coining the term reflation due to the market uncertainty and the constant ying and yang of deflation and inflation pulls on the market. The point is that deflation should - or so we thought - be easy to prevent: just print more money. Printing money is normally a pleasant experience for governments. In fact, the idea that governments have a hard time keeping...

This market is certainly full of surprises and uncertainty. The financial market news this past 2 weeks has been nothing short of extraordinary and volatile. The 1000 point drop last week may be a leading indicator. At some point the market needs to recalibrate and factor in all the debt and cheap dollars created by the Fed printing press. The Euro bailout now has the two largest...

Several current indicators report new highs in consumer spending and manufacturing. Notwithstanding the deficit issue, the economy is on a growth track. U.S. consumer spending has surpassed its pre recession peak. U.S. consumer spending rose at the fastest rate in three years during the first quarter of 2010, powering the economy to a 3.2% growth rate, the Commerce Department reported...

The trade deficit, along with the credit and housing bubbles, were the principal causes of the Great Recession. Now, a rising trade deficit and continued weak dollar threatens to stifle the emerging recovery and keep unemployment near 10 percent through 2011 At 3.1 percent of GDP, the trade deficit subtracts more from the demand for U.S.-made goods and services than...

The US Recovery is  full speed ahead! The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbs to a 17 month high as we break thru the 11,000 milestone. 52 week percentage change for the DJIA +47.59, S&P 500 +50.92, NASDAQ +62.94. Impressive when we reflect on where these markets were prior to the stimulus reflecting on the 2010 first quarter and market outlook...

American people continue to be bombarded by the daily news media which includes the talking heads on both the left and right with useless political information. We seem to forget that capitalism with all its alleged negative effects is really the only economic system which improves the quality of life for the people of the world....

Today's financial markets provide investors with a broad set of energy investment options. Legacy oil and gas companies continue to provide the enormous consumption of oil & gas fuels. Oil is projected for continued growth for several decades. Additionally, we detect the beginning of the business growth curve for alternative energy companies in the area of Wind, Solar, and Bio Fuels etc...

For all those selling goods to the public, the new year is sunnier than the last but the overall outlook is still partly cloudy. That's the news from the latest Nielsen Company survey as reported by Marketing Charts this week. The Consumer Packaged Goods or CPG market will see a few trends snap into place. Some of those key predictions include...

China's enormous pent up demand for commodities has positioned Brazil for growth and capitalistic exuberance. The Brazilian mining companies have partnered with China to provide Metal Ore which is required for China's steel making firms. China is the world's largest steel maker and their needs unsurpass anything the Global marketplace has experienced in the past...

As gold just broke past $1,000 an ounce today to hit a new 18-month high and looks like it is getting ready to scream past its record high of $1,030.80! In my opinion, if gold can hold above $1,000 an ounce and close strong a lot of the nervous shorts will begin to start covering and create a short squeeze which alone could send gold through the roof! ...

Investors who have been around for a while will remember the classic Smith Barney commercial from the 1980s, where actor John Houseman informs viewers that they "make money the old fashioned way" they earn it."...

How does the US debt compare to other developed countries? External debt is a measure of a government's foreign liabilities, capital plus interest that a government must eventually pay. See the World's Debtor Nations...

The economy is cratering, so the Fed is printing money. When the Fed prints money, this eventually produces inflation (more dollars, same amount of goods). Bernanke assured us yesterday that, this time, the Fed's....

US Treasury notes have been a safe place for world govs. to park currency holdings. But now the US is running up trillion-dollar deficits and China is raising concerns about the US dollar's dominant position in the world economy.

The Federal Reserve has already dropped the Fed funds rate to a historically low range of 0-0.25% and now it is desperately trying to use other unconventional methods (quantitative easing) to stimulate the economy...

The action by the President will, in effect, allow scientists to create their own guidelines without proper moral restraints. One company is set to begin the world's first study of a treatment using human stem cells.

Even with the short-term bearishness, many financial advisers are telling clients to look past the bottom and start picking up small-cap and mid-cap stocks that traditionally lead the market out of recessions.

In this report, I am going to go over another factor that the media does NOT want you to know about that I think plays a big factor in why gold and silver will be going significantly higher from their current price.

I have been tracking another commodity that I think we can all benefit from in the long term during the hyperinflation depression period. Some people call it black gold. Yes, I am talking about oil.

A combination of the rapidly rising U.S. dollar index, vicious forced and panic selling of all asset classes and massive de-leveraging have helped to put downward price pressure on gold.

One thing our nation has going for itself & could produce for the world is agricultural resources and farm goods! These are the strong roots of our country that at one point helped make us the strongest country in the world!.