Tweet I thought the market would crash in the wake of the Earthquake / Tsunami / Nuclear Meltdowns at Fukushima. It didn’t. However, something much less serious may be bringing the market – and the economy – to it’s knees. Politics. The Voice of America reported here that Standard & Poors downgraded US debt from AAA to AA+. [...]
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Tiger Woods may be a great golfer. But I wouldn’t buy a mortgage from him. Here’s why. (click to stream audio) Economics II: Macroeconomics and Political Economy The way for the government to stimulate the economy and to avoid or climb out of a Depression, as John Maynard Keynes wrote, and as President Franklin Delano [...]
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