By George Leong for Investment Contrarians What happens in China will have an impact on the U.S. economy and the global economy. The linkage between economies worldwide has become more profound over the past decade. This is why, as an investor, you need to be fully aware...
Many Councils see the van and the car as an opportunity to raise tax revenues, to charge them and to restrict their use. If Councils really wanted to help the local economy they would see that they need to do ...
Original article published at www.investmentcontrarians.comhttp://www.investmentcontrarians.com/recession/whats-really-driving-the-latest-economic-report/728/The latest data regarding the economic growth rate of America came from the Commerce Department’s durable goods ...
In this election we hear a lot about the government standing in the way of private-sector growth and about the government taking people's money through taxes. The people making such claims fail to tell you two things. One is that private-sector growth was strongest under...
Debt is a big issue in this election, and it should be. Bush added $6 trillion to the debt during eight years, and Obama has added another $4 trillion. While most of the clamouring about the debt comes from Republicans, their solutions are simply impossible, and it is...
The road to fulfilling a great destiny of a nation is paved with ten quintessential elements that must be implemented into that society. With what transpired with the Sub-Prime mortgage crisis of 2008 that almost brought down the United States economy and triggered a...
I've lived during the boom of 1990s, and I've lived during the economic gloom of the last decade. What I've seen is as follows: When capitalism works, it works wonders; but when it doesn't, things get really ugly, really quickly. In a purely capitalist setting, where everyone...
UK economic outlook worse for seventh month in a row, says OECD.... The West's leading economic thinktank, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), says a recession is looming and backs...
Better than expected figures for the UK economy dumfounded the experts and made George Osborne's slashing plan A policies look like they are bringing in a small positive result ........ The UK economy grew by 0.5%...
(CNN) -- Unlike in previous jobs speeches, where he's been a cheerleader for clean energy and a green economy, President Obama didn't say the word "green" once in his address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday night. That seems to fit the mood of the country, but...
The sovereign debt crisis of 2010-2 emanated from the realization that lower growth rates throughout the industrialized West were insufficient to guarantee the repayment of debts accumulated by governments. The proceeds of the credits and loans assumed by public sectors...
All around the country, Republican candidates are running on the platform of cutting taxes. One often repeated claim is that cutting taxes has always created prosperity. That is the biggest lie.
The last time the taxes were cut was under Bush. The Bush tax cuts for highest...
The mega-giant retail outlet Walmart continues it's onslaught on local economies. Most communities across the United States are already suffering and struggling with massive unemployment and those still employed are stuck with stagnant or reduced wages. But...
Will the President make the tough choices that this country and the world needs so desperately? When people thought back in 2008 the decisions coming out of Washington would turn this countries fortunes around for the majority of the population a new era of prosperity...
Another disaster in the making? With the continuing saga of unrest and distention in Lybia the price of gas today has again risen to thwart our economic revival. Of all the commodities today that doesn't have a stable price, it's gasoline. With the cost of fuel being...