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Is Inflation really a Problem?
by EconMatters, EconMatters.com Consumers only focus on Inflation, they ignore Deflation areas It seems that to exclusively focus on one side of the equation can be human nature at times, and with regard to inflation concerns humans never see the … Continue reading
Posted in Banking News, Commodities, Economics, Federal Reserve, Home Sales and Home Prices
Tagged deflation, EconMatters, Economy, Federal Reserve, GDP, inflation, recession
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Seaway Pipeline No Panacea for Cushing’s Oil Glut
by EconMatters EIA Report The weekly EIA report came out last week and one of the noteworthy data points was the Cushing, Oklahoma storage numbers. Already at a record, Cushing added another 1.8 million barrels to storage sending total Cushing … Continue reading
The New Era of Oil Renaissance
by EconMatters In a continuation of our series on the state of the oil industry we look at some of the other ramifications of what we are labeling the Oil Renaissance in the US, and around the world for that … Continue reading
Posted in China, Commodities, Energy, GDP, Government
Tagged EconMatters, Economy, GDP, industrial production, OIL, trade balance
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Oil, Gasoline Markets End 2012 with Swollen Inventory Levels
by EconMatters EIA Inventory Data In analyzing the last EIA report of the year it is noteworthy that gasoline stocks really rose the last 5 weeks of the year. The takeaway isn`t so much that gasoline inventories rose 23 million … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, GDP, Trade Data
Tagged EconMatters, Economy, gasoline, GDP, OIL, trade balance
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Manipulation of Gasoline and Oil Markets
Gasoline & Oil Markets Rigged Far Worse Than Libor By EconMatters UBS paid $1.5 Billion for manipulating Libor, and Barclay`s already paid the piper for manipulating the Libor rate. Well, it is about time the CFTC get its act together, … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Trade Data
Tagged crude oil, EconMatters, gasoline, OIL, oil price, trade balance, US Reserves
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WTI Crude Oil To Test $65 Level in 2013
By EconMatters WTI closed November just shy of $89 a barrel on hopes of an improving economy. I think there is an argument for an improving economy in 2013, but it is just too early to tell how things are … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Trade Data
Tagged CAP EX, crude oil, crude oil price, EconMatters, Economy, EIA Report, OIL, oil price, OPEC, retail sales, US Reserves, west texas intermediate, wti
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Spain and The Runaway Euro Bailout Train
By EconMatters Spain finally bowed to the rising interest rates and the billions of euros worth of bad loans at Spain’s regional governments to ask for a loan. After emergency talks between Euro Zone finance ministers on Saturday, Spain will get up … Continue reading
Posted in Eurozone
Tagged bailout, debt crisis, EconMatters, EU, euro, Euro bonds, euro rescue, Eurozone, Spain
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Forget Peak Oil, Time To Worry About Peak Oil Labor
By EconMatters In a recent working paper, researchers at the the IMF (International Monetary Fund) attempt to reconcile the Peak Oil debate that whether resource constraints will dictate the future of oil output and prices, or advance in technology motivated … Continue reading
Posted in Commodities, Energy
Tagged EconMatters, IMF, OIL, oil output, oil price, oil production, shock, skilled labor shortage oil
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Student Debt Likely to Grow to 7.7% of USA Gross Public Debt by 2020
by EconMatters Student loan debt is surging, partly boosted by many who became unemployed during the Great Recession going back to school hoping for a better job prospect. An analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) showed … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer Credit
Tagged borrowing, consumer credit, credit, debt, EconMatters, Economy, education, student loans
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Beijing’s Great Bailout to Defuse Ticking Local Debt Bombs
By EconMatters In the previous post, we briefly mentioned that “….there could be some hidden debt bombs as a recent Bloomberg finding suggests that China’s banks may be understating their exposure to runaway local borrowing by possibly billions of dollars that is raising … Continue reading
Posted in China
Tagged Beijing bailout, China, EconMatters, local government bailout, local government debt
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System D: The Second Largest Global Economy
by EconMatters A recent article at Foreign Policy noted that the $10 trillion global black market is now the world’s fastest growing economy, and that in 2009, the OECD concluded that half the world’s workers (almost 1.8 billion people) were employed in … Continue reading
A Few Chinese Bad News Bears To Spoil A Happy New Year
by EconMatters Goldman’s Jim O’Neill noted in a recent interview that the world’s future prosperity depends on China’s growth. While we don’t totally agree with that assessment as we see China as one of the many contributory factors towards world’s … Continue reading
Posted in China
Tagged China, Dian Chu, EconMatters, FDI, foreign direct investment, manufacturing, PMI, slowdown
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College Dropouts And Unemployment, At What Cost?
Russia and South Korea now outrank the U.S. in terms of college graduation rate and the high U.S. dropout rate is costing billions per year. Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged China, college, Dian Chu, EconMatters, education, employment, U.S., unemployment
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U.S. Economy: A Lost Decade Into The Great Middle Class Poverty?
In yet another sign that the Great Recession cuts deep and long–the number of Americans living below the official poverty line reached 46.2 million, the highest in 52 years since the Census Bureau started tracking the figures in 1959. Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Employment, Personal Income and Consumption, macroeconomics
Tagged EconMatters, poverty, unemployment
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