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The Latest Obama Outrage: the Family's $100 Million Vacation

June 21, 2013

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How much do you spend on your summer vacation? American households usually spend about $1,200 per person on summer vacations, according to a...

Paul Krugman May Be the World's Last Flat Earth Economist

January 31, 2013

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Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Dr. Paul...

Why The Fiscal Cliff "Deal" is Spelled P-O-R-K

January 7, 2013

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After narrowly missing the fiscal cliff, the President went out of...

Why Japan's "Lost Decades" Are Headed to America in 2016

December 26, 2012

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It's only been a little more than a week since Shinzo Abe won election as Japan's latest Prime Minister in a landslide-election victory and the...

What the Last Roman Emperor Would Tell President Obama Today

August 15, 2012

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Over the course of 700 years, the ancient Roman Empire grew from a small republic to one that stretched from London to Baghdad at its...

Obamanomics: What You Can Expect if President Obama Wins the Election

May 8, 2012

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Now that we are left with a two-horse race for president, the markets are going to begin to handicap the November results.

However, when...

Iran is Now a Full-Blown Crisis, Stage Set for $200 Oil

February 8, 2012

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Just when it looked like we could take a breather from the Strait of Hormuz, all attention is back on Iran.

There are three reasons for...

What the World Will Look Like if Occupy Wall Street Wins

November 1, 2011

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There are many reasons why the Occupy...

GDP Is a Lie – It’s Time for a New Measure of Economic Growth

August 23, 2011

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Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most commonly used measure of economic growth. But GDP isn't just inaccurate and misleading - it's the ...

The Debt-Ceiling Debate: Three Federal Tax Increases That Could Save the U.S. Economy

July 8, 2011

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As the debt-ceiling debate escalates, U.S President Barack Obama says federal tax increases are necessary to close the U.S. budget ...

How to Fix the U.S. Housing Market

June 3, 2011

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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...

Question of the Week: Readers Respond to Money Morning's Credit Score Query

July 21, 2010

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More Americans than ever before are seeing their credit score slip to the subprime level, according to a new report released last week by...

We Want to Hear From You: Are You Taking Care of Your Credit Score?

July 13, 2010

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More Americans are seeing their credit score slip to its lowest level ever, according to a new report released this week by credit-scoring firm Fair...

As Scary as it Seems, Greek Debt Crisis Won't Spawn Second Global Meltdown

April 28, 2010

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The Greek debt crisis is starting to display an uncanny resemblance to

Mortgage Markets Show Increased Stability, But Limited Opportunity

March 5, 2010

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[Editor's Note: This analysis of the U.S. mortgage market is part of a two-story package that appears in today's issue of Money...

Warning: This is Not Another Wall Street Conspiracy Theory, These are the Facts

February 2, 2010

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Just last week, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to directly pay...

My Confrontation With Ben Bernanke: The One Question He Refused to Answer

January 28, 2010

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The Secret Service agents watched me warily as I approached U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

I didn't waste any time. After...

Wall Street's Stranglehold on the Economy Is Choking Americans

January 26, 2010

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America's Founding Fathers were afraid of any concentration of power in the republic. They were particularly afraid that banking interests could...