Financial Markets

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

The Producer Price Index is out and it shows a change in intermediate goods in March 2008

But the Keynesian conclusion is rather obvious: the state, through its compulsory means, has to boost the level of aggregate demand in some way to stop the economy from falling into recession.

The very existence of a centrally planned apparatus changes the real economic data, and so changes what the "correct" number of cars should have been, even if we could agree on the criteria for correctness.

The increase in monetary pumping however sets in motion a new boom-bust cycle. Also, once economic activity starts to recover on its own (as a result of the improvement in the pool of real funding) any "help" from the Fed can only slow down the process of recovery.

This is an open thread to discuss the question I (and others) continually receive many queries about. What does your portfolio look like?

Zweig also explores how humans are overconfident in their abilities

However modest in size, including possibly being actually negative, net investment represents the true source of most revenue and income.

The falling US dollar eats away at foreign workers' savings as the money is converted to their national currencies, but, more important, it discourages people leaning towards employment in the outsourced sector.