Pretty much since the day I wrote it, my Investors’ 10 Most Common Behavioral Biases has been the most popular post on this blog. Due to the pioneering work of Daniel Kahneman and others, nearly everyone in the financial world acknowledges the reality of cognitive...
Read Full Article>>> http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/01/guest-post-what-happens-when-china-goes.htmlWhat Happens When China Goes “Gray”? Developed economies are beginning to struggle with aging populations and more retirees. China may soon join them. As...
http://www.investmentcontrarians.com/recession/consumer-confidence-takes-a-dramatic-hit-what-this-means-for-economic-growth-in-2013/1128/ Consumer Confidence Takes a Dramatic Hit; What This Means for Economic Growth in 2013 When it comes to forecasting economic growth,...
http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2012/12/10-things-you-should-know-about.html 10 Things You Should Know About Economics This is a list of ten things that debaters should know about economics. The purpose of this page is not to provide a full education in economics, but to...
http://newswalls.blogspot.com/2012/12/economics-for-week-ahead-cpi.html After the “amazing” jobs report on Friday, investors will be quite curious to see the response from the Fed. On Wednesday, Mr. Bernake will provide a rate decision and further details about the...
Read More: http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2012/11/cataclysmic-changes-warned-coming-as_23.html Folks, I’ve got to tell you that Sister Ciara’s special report, Destruction Of America Enters Final Phase, is one of the finest, and most concise, written presentations on...
Read More: http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2012/11/grantham-were-headed-for-disaster-of.html Last year, legendary investor Jeremy Grantham of GMO published a treatise on exploding commodity prices. He also offered a startlingly depressing outlook for the future of...
Read More: http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2012/11/55-reasons-why-you-should-buy-products.html This is the time of the year when Americans run out to their favorite retail stores and fill up their shopping carts with lots of cheap plastic crap made by workers in foreign...
Read More http://www.investmentcontrarians.com/stock-market/new-report-shows-huge-shift-in-sentiment-for-the-retail-sector-2/970/The positive jobs report last week and the revision for the previous months might be leading the latest sentiment numbers in the retail sector. ...
(CNN) -- For the past few days, all of us have been properly focused on one of the worst storms of our lifetimes. We mourn those who were lost. And we pledge to stand with those whose lives have been turned upside down for as long as it takes them to recover and...
Read More: http://www.investmentcontrarians.com/recession/estimated-cost-of-eurozone-break-up-a-shocking-22-0-trillion/845/ The financial crisis in the eurozone has continued for some time, and there is still no end in sight. What was once perhaps a nice theory on paper...
There are any number of people who conflate environmentalism with Marxism. It is time that this myth, like many others, be put to rest.That someone is in agreement with one of Marx's stances - and Marx was an extremely voluminous writer who addressed many subjects in his work...
The new evidence supports it: the Chancellor should scrap his ridiculous austerity plans and invest in jobs. It hasn't taken long for the OBR's forecast, published last Wednesday, to look out of date. Downward...
In 1992, Ross Perot warned that the NAFTA agreement would lead to a "giant sucking sound" of American jobs going south to Mexico. He was part-right. There was a sucking sound, but it wasn't immediate. Many American companies moved operations south of the border a number of...