Editor's Note: Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of Rome, had a lot of time to think about what went wrong to cause the...
If this week's economic reports showed us anything, it's the fact that two years into what's supposed to be an economic recovery, the U.S. housing...
The Nobel Prize panel granted its top award to seven leading economists - whose theories went on to cost investors trillions of dollars in...
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Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan's narrow Tuesday victory over Ichiro Ozawa for the leadership of the Democratic Party of Japan wouldn't normally...
I've said it once, and I'll doubtless say it a few dozen more times before the U.S. economy returns to health: Just because you have to endure...
Money Morning Contributing Editor Martin Hutchinson last month
After the Nov. 2 midterm elections, the Obama administration and Congress are going to have to scramble to fill a trillion-dollar hole in the U.S...
The big political issue for the remainder of this year will be the so-called "Bush tax cuts" engineered by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2001 and...
During a period of increasingly worrisome headlines about the U.S. economy, there is one bright spot. The rest of the world appears to be...
Last week's stock-market meltdown was a worldwide affair, and was touched off by trader fears of a global "double-dip" recession. However,...
European countries - both inside and outside the Eurozone - are slashing their budget deficits.
China's inflation rate rose 3.1% in May from a year earlier, exceeding the government's 3% target rate for 2010 and stirring speculation on whether...
Masayuki Oku, the new head of the Japan Bankers Association, recently said that Western bankers did not understand self-control the way Asian bankers...
While it looked like they were headed towards the $90 a barrel level, oil prices hit a wall in the spring. Rattled investors who worried about the...
The gold bug is unstoppable. Prices are up four-fold since 2001... and they're not stopping anytime soon. Could $5,000 per ounce be in our future?...
The threat of deflation has been making its rounds as inflationary measures like the
With the failure of the BP PLC (NYSE ADR:
You can see signs of de-globalization everywhere. Just look at the intense shareholder...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently came out in favor of a "
