2011Â was an eventful year for the American economy, and it seems to be slowly getting back on track. The last few weeks of 2011 started seeing some positive activity in consumer spending. Banking is...
There are many indicators in the economy that can illustrate and determine market trends, with the price of oil, unemployment rates and geopolitical issues being the most common. Some of these...
Tom Aspray's article has been provided by Moneyshow.com The relentless nature of the stock market decline over the past 12 days has been astounding, and the Dow Industrials has dropped 15%. Given the...
When most of us think of inflation, we think of rising prices that strain budgets and take away our buying power. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, inflation skyrocketed as high as 14.8% in the...
Recently, while kayaking on Lake Windermere in Cumbria, England, Tom Pickles and Sarah Harrington caught sight of something cutting swiftly through the water nearby. What they saw is uncertain, but...
Whenever anything goes wrong in view of the public, attention quickly moves to rooting out those who should be blamed for whatever it was that went wrong. Given the enormous and far-reaching...
After a tough 2009, we had high hopes for the real estate market in 2010. Thinking that conditions couldn't get much worse, many believed that home values would start the process of recovery but...