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Higher Growth, Lower Unemployment Predicted For Second Half Of 2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 10:53 AM EDT
The 28 participants in the June Livingston Survey have raised their estimates of output growth for the second half of 2014.
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Expectations Remain Optimistic Following First Quarter Setback
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 5:46 AM EDT
Recent data by the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that the United States' economy contracted for the first time in three years in the first quarter of 2014.
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Hungary, Albania Extend Easing, Columbia Ups Rate Again
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 3:45 AM EDT
Last week in global monetary policy, Hungary and Albania extended their easing cycles due to low inflationary pressures while Colombia raised its rate for the second consecutive month in anticipation of accelerating inflation.
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Bitcoin Entrepreneur Charged With Offering Unregistered Securities
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 1:56 PM EDT
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the co-owner of two Bitcoin-related websites for publicly offering shares in the two ventures without registering them.
In this article: BITCOMP
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A Market Devoid Of Fear
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 9:57 AM EDT
"What, me worry?" The VIX "fear/complacency index" has been gliding along at very low levels for about two years and now is at its lowest monthly point since 1997, before the market peak in October 2007 and the market devastation of 2008.
In this article: VIX
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The Economic Recovery And Monetary Policy: The Road Back To Ordinary
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 7:47 AM EDT
Monetary policy is moving slowly and cautiously towards normalization. Signs of improvement—falling unemployment, better financial conditions, and abating headwinds—indicate the United States is changing from extraordinary economic times back to ordinary ones.
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Four Reasons Tech & BioTech Stocks Will Rebound In 2014
Monday, June 2, 2014 6:45 PM EDT
The sullen outlook has lots of retail investors dumping tech stocks and running for the "safety" of the sidelines. That's a mistake I'm urging you to avoid.
In this article: AZN, PFE, AAPL, GILD, GOOG, MSFT, TSLA
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Cognitive Dissonance At The Fed?
Monday, June 2, 2014 1:02 PM EDT
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members have long submitted their projections of U.S. real GDP growth for the “longer run,” to which they expect it “to converge over time – maybe in five or six years – in the absence of further shocks and under appropriate monetary policy.
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Charter School Operator In Chicago Charged With Defrauding Bond Investors
Monday, June 2, 2014 12:51 PM EDT
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a charter school operator in Chicago with defrauding investors in a $37.5 million bond offering for school construction by making materially misleading statements about transactions that presented a conflict of interest.
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Do Expected U.S. Treasury Term Premiums Matter?
Monday, June 2, 2014 10:13 AM EDT
The spot term premium is the extra compensation investors require, today, to own long-term as opposed to short-term risk-free debt. The expected term premium is what they anticipate demanding later.
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Piketty: Financial Times Using Double Standards?
Monday, June 2, 2014 7:46 AM EDT
I was a bit amazed to see the FT claiming that Thomas Piketty's findings are 'undercut by errors'. Paul Krugman defended him, and Piketty has hit back at the FT claiming that they are 'dishonest', as The Guardian reports.
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Economic Impacts Of Qatar World Cup 2022
Monday, June 2, 2014 6:12 AM EDT
World Cups and Olympics are famed for their ability to boost the national economy of the host country.
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Deflation For Oil
Sunday, June 1, 2014 2:11 PM EDT
By the symmetry of Elliott Wave Theory (EWT) a deep drop in the price of oil is projected to take place over the next few years.
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Individual Income Tax Returns, Preliminary Data, 2012
Friday, May 30, 2014 11:41 AM EDT
For Tax Year 2012, taxpayers filed 144.9 million U.S. individual income tax returns, a decrease of 0.4 percent from the 145.6 million returns filed for Tax Year 2011.
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The Picture Of Imbalance
Friday, May 30, 2014 8:59 AM EDT
In my early days, I was always fascinated by the gap in the financial system between those who know what they are doing and profit, and those who don’t and lose money
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Repeat After Me: The ECB Does NOT Control The Quantity Of Reserves
Friday, May 30, 2014 7:11 AM EDT
Sometimes, what seems to be trivial for some, is a huge surprise for others. For instance, it has still not sunk in that banks cannot lend out reserves to the private sector, as described by a recent publication by Standard&Poor's.
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