Economy Discussions

Several business indicators released this week by the government show business growth over the last three months. Overall business sales for January 2010 show the third month of YoY increase. The breakdown of the business sales between manufacturing, wholesale, and retail – all of which are improving: Three months o...

I don’t own a TV and I don’t listen to much Radio, since my drive to work is very short (like 5 minutes, I could walk it in 30 minutes probably but since the gas still flows, driving is the preferred option), so I don’t get bombarded with that much Advertising. However, in the short bursts I do get it, I have notic...

File this post under the rubric of fighting fire with fire, even if you find the means personally distasteful. Over on the Politics pages, TLaCour made a point with respect to MSM coverage of Demonstrations which got me thinking. Neither the topic of any given rally or march nor whether the goal of said rally is good for the c...

The Lehman Report on which I wrote last night regarding deeply troubling issues surrounding the Lehman Bankruptcy, has laid bare some very ugly facts relating to our financial system, corporate governance, and our government's active complicity not only in the Lehman collapse, but in ongoing balance sheet shenanigans and the cur...

As many of you know, Jim Quinn and I have parted company. The separation of our ways was disorderly. Here is what we all may want to consider about the good parts of the relationship and how it benefited the American people. How it went bad is less relevant now. 1) Jim Quinn was the first beta tester of the RD network and devoted a...

I've just had a long read of John William's Hyperinflation Special Report(2010) written in December 2009. This is an extremely detailed and heavily researched report, which covers many aspects of the US Economy. I'm not going to paste his explanations or predictions concerning the US Economy, but you can just click the l...

I must confess that I read all the interpretations of Fed statistics avidly. But I am a little astonished at the gullibility of most economic commentators in this practice, because since most RD readers here seem to wholeheartedly agree that the FED is a secretive, untouchable Wall Street affiliate and ally, then why do people trust...

The Federal Reserve issued their quarterly Flow of Funds Accounts for fourth quarter 2009 (PDF). Their statement was summarized with the following flow chart which continues to show explosive government debt growth and contracting household and business debt. While the Fed headlined this release with a discussion on debt which ...