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The Motley Fool July 2, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
7 Reasons to Worry About Next Week Despite the nearly incessant market rallies since mid-March, not every company is living up to the market's enthusiastic rise.  |
The Motley Fool July 2, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Dangerously Delaying the Inevitable In order to help the economy recover, the Obama administration relaxes the requirements for government-backed mortgage modifications.  |
Financial Advisor July 2009 Jeff Schlegel |
Rebuilding With BRICs The Big Four of emerging markets are back in favor.  |
Financial Advisor July 2009 James Picerno |
Small-Cap Value Is Beautiful Again Small firms trading at low multiples are especially vulnerable these days. That's why they're so appealing.  |
TIME Europe July 6, 2009 Barbara Kiviat |
Bismarck: The Town the Recession Missed As the economy flails in most of the U.S., it's business as usual for North Dakotans. Cruising through the recession on the 47th parallel  |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
After a Huge Quarter, What's Next for Stocks? In the second quarter, the S&P 500 rose 15%, turning in its best performance since the glory days of the second quarter of 1998. Are these gains sustainable?  |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2009 Matt Hoffman |
Protect Your Portfolio From a Weakening Dollar The shadow banking system, where opaque instruments like derivatives played an important role in providing credit, has soured, and the Fed has flooded the market with dollars to prevent collapse. What stocks should you buy to protect yourself from the inevitable weakening of the dollar?  |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
Lessons From the Financial Crisis Michael Lewis won acclaim for his bestselling Wall Street expose, Liar's Poker, in which he described the Wall Street excesses he witnessed as a bond salesman for Salomon Brothers. He speaks briefly now on his current opinion of the markets.  |
Investment Advisor July 2009 Robert F. Keane |
The Green Advisor: A 21st Century Commodity The market-based approach upon which the U.S. Acid Rain program is based has effectively demonstrated that environmental protections and economic well-being are not mutually exclusive.  |
On Wall Street July 1, 2009 |
Five Questions with John Lonski John Lonski is responsible for the analysis of global credit markets, with a special emphasis on economic phenomena and the supply and demand of credit market funds. He speaks about his outlook for the economy.  |
Reason July 2009 Tim Cavanaugh |
Dickens Is Back. Watch Your Wallet. If you want to understand the economy, don't turn to the author of Oliver Twist for answers. Acolytes of the Victorian novelist have recently arisen to champion his rescue from imaginary obscurity.  |
Reason July 2009 Randazzo et al. |
Turning Japanese Japan's post-bubble policies produced a "lost decade." So why is President Obama emulating them?  |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Buffett Mows Down "Green Shoots," but Likes Stocks Warren Buffett is another skeptic of "green shoots," believing instead that the economy is still in shambles.  |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
The Confidence Roller-Coaster Ride Last month's rosy consumer confidence data left the market feeling elated, bus this month sent those hopes screaming back down to earth.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2009 Brian Richards |
Roundtable: Lessons From the Madoff Mess 71-year-old Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff was given the maximum sentence for the 11 criminal counts to which he pleaded guilty: 150 years in jail. Motley Fool writers offer opinions on the lessons learned.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2009 Nate Weisshaar |
Why China Hates the U.S. and What It Means for Your Portfolio As the Chinese government increases domestic consumption, the companies that will benefit most will be those targeting Chinese consumers.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2009 Christopher Barker |
Saddle Up for the Straight Talk Express A steel-industry executive, Nucor's Daniel DiMicco, speaks his mind about the domestic economy.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
The Market's Still in Break Mode Stocks finished last week mixed after digesting a flurry of economic data. The Dow declined for the second straight week. This week, 'window dressing' begins.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Consumers Might Save Themselves to Death The personal savings rate exploded in May, marking yet another month of consumers' newfound fascination with putting money away. But, going from one extreme to the other isn't without consequence.  |
The Motley Fool June 26, 2009 |
Roundtable: Will Cap-and-Trade Hurt America? The U.S. House of Representatives is voting on the American Clean Energy and Security Act, more commonly referred to as the "Cap-and-Trade" bill. Energy experts debate the merits of Waxman-Markey.  |
The Motley Fool June 26, 2009 Brian Orelli |
The $16 Billion Market That Could Make You Rich A large market just waiting to be taken over.  |
The Motley Fool June 26, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Uh-Oh, Here We Go Again? Another effort to reinflate the housing bubble.  |
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Maria Bartiromo |
Summers on Obama's New Financial Regulations Larry Summers is adamant that the reforms will result in more economic stability and, ultimately, a more enduring prosperity.  |
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Housing's Tentative Gains In a tricky balancing act meant to support the nascent housing recovery, the Fed suggests it might spend more to keep interest rates low, while trying to soothe investors' inflation fears.  |
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Ben Levisohn |
The Fed: The Bond Market's New Hedge Fund? The Federal Reserve is keeping the market for long-term bonds off balance with its purchases of Treasuries and mortgage debt.  |
Registered Rep. June 25, 2009 Christina Mucciolo |
Go Figure, HNW Clients Lost Trust and Money in 08: Wealth Report Not surprisingly, last year's market took its toll on the wealthy, reducing assets, slimming their ranks and undercutting their trust in institutions associated with the market  |
The Motley Fool June 25, 2009 Liz Peek |
Can Big Labor Save Big Oil? Several developments suggest that the Obama administration will embrace development of domestic oil and gas resources. Which oilfield companies can this help?  |
The Motley Fool June 24, 2009 Ivan Martchev |
What's Up With Natural Gas? After crashing nearly 75% from last summer's record highs, oil has rebounded nicely. But natural gas remains in the cellar, as the clean fuel is down 30% since December. Why the disparity? Here are some stocks to consider.  |
The Motley Fool June 24, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Why It Could Take Years to Recover We're drowning in debt, and no one wants to rescue us, but these problems that took decades to create can't be solved in a matter of months.  |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
The Economy Is Bottoming The economy is in a bottoming process right now, according to Bruce Yandle, interim dean of Clemson University's business school and professor of economics at George Mason University's Mercatus Center.  |
Wired June 22, 2009 Daniel Roth |
Crash Could Free Up Wall Street's Grip on Bright Young Minds No one likes to see an industry die, but there is an upside. Wall Street's creations too often devolve from enriching us all to enriching a select few  |
Wired June 22, 2009 Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on Cuba's Potential Tech Boom In sheer human potential, Cuba is an economic and technological miracle waiting to happen.  |
The Motley Fool June 22, 2009 Toby Shute |
World Bank Scorches the Green Shoots World Bank report says that the global economy is not collapsing, but it's not snapping back to business as usual, either.  |
The Motley Fool June 22, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
The Other Great Depression We need to realize that our economy needs to correct from the artificiality of a massive bubble, that government intervention is unsustainable and maybe even harmful, and that what we need most of all is to get our entrepreneurial spirit back.  |
The Motley Fool June 22, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
The Market Gets a Reality Check The market focuses on the facts.  |
The Motley Fool June 22, 2009 Christopher Barker |
The Surreal Life of the U.S. Dollar Hollywood screenwriters couldn't have scripted it better.  |
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 David Lee Smith |
The Good News on Natural Gas A just-released report says we have much more natural gas than we thought.  |
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
The Next Housing Crisis Is Brewing Is the government sponsoring the next leg down for the housing market? If so, what should investors be doing?  |
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Where Did All the Bailout Money Go? Now that several banks have repaid taxpayers about $70 billion of the $700 billion bank bailout know as TARP, a common question is: "Great, now where's the other $630 billion?" The answer isn't as clear-cut as many may assume.  |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Coy et al. |
Where Housing Is Now Home prices are likely to fall for the next year, then stabilize, with a rebound in 2012 as the overall economy takes off again.  |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Peter Coy |
Why the Fed Isn't Igniting Inflation Yes, the Fed is expanding the money supply. But any inflationary effect will be offset by consumers' new frugality.  |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: Why Consumer Spending Won't Drive a Recovery Households are paying down debt and rebuilding their nest eggs, so they're not spending. Still, that's unlikely to thwart a modest economic upturn.  |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Francis & Sasseen |
Financial Regulations: What Obama Wants The Administration's proposals for regulating the financial markets are wide-ranging. The question now: Are they tough enough?  |
IndustryWeek June 17, 2009 |
The IW 1000: The 2009 World's 1000 Largest Manufacturers: Kings Retain Thrones Even with the worldwide economy tanking toward the end of last year, consumers bought enough cars and gas for their tanks to keep the oil and auto industries at the top of the IW 1000.  |
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Obama's Plan Lead to Financial Failure? Only time will tell if Obama's plan will lead to a better system or just a bureaucratic mess.  |
Scientific American July 2009 Gary Stix |
The Science of Economic Bubbles and Busts The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has prompted a reassessment of how financial markets work and how people make decisions about money  |
The Motley Fool June 16, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Don't Kid Yourself: Banks Can Still Be Insolvent The folks at Treasury say everything will be fine. Should we believe them?  |
The Motley Fool June 16, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
The Dow's Back in the Black -- What's Next? No doubt about it, the market's been on a tear. The question is: Can it continue?  |
The Motley Fool June 16, 2009 Mike Pienciak |
Energy Looks Good, Oil Looks Great Based on analysis provided by a recent McKinsey and Co. research report, it looks like energy investors will do just fine in coming years. And those invested specifically in oil may do best of all.  |
Wall Street & Technology June 9, 2009 Melanie Rodier |
China's Mutual Fund Industry Goes International China is opening its mutual fund industry to international investing, injecting more than 1 billion potential investors into the international markets. Meanwhile, Western fund managers and technology providers are scrambling to provide much needed expertise to Chinese investment firms.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Marek Belka |
Europe Under Stress The global economic crisis is testing the cohesion of the European Union  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Cihak & Mitra |
Losing Their Halo Many countries in central and eastern Europe are finding it hard to adjust to the new economic reality  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Berglof et al. |
A Tale of Two Crises Russia is still a resource-dependent economy that must diversify in a market-friendly way  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Kose et al. |
Out of the Ballpark By any measure, the ongoing global recession is the deepest and the most synchronized of the postwar period  |
Finance & Development June 2009 John Lipsky |
Preparing for a Postcrisis World Assessing the IMF's role in the future international financial architecture  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Giovanni Dell'Ariccia |
Asset Price Booms: How Can They Best Be Managed? Not all booms are alike -- making the right call on which policies to deploy depends on how assets are held and who is exposed to a possible bust  |
Finance & Development June 2009 |
The Perfect Storm The IMF's Chief Economist explained in a November 2008 lecture how a crisis that began in mortgage-backed securities turned into the worst recession since the 1930s.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Randall Dodd |
Playing with Fire Firms across the spectrum of emerging markets entered into exotic derivative contracts that caused massive losses  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Ketkar & Ratha |
New Paths to Funding When financing is scarce, developing countries may try innovative approaches to raise capital  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Kamil et al. |
A Hedge, Not a Bet Latin American companies used new techniques to protect against currency swings. But a few used them to gamble -- and they lost big.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Eyzaguirre et al. |
Latin America: When Is Fiscal Stimulus Right? For some Latin American countries stimulus is appropriate during the global economic crisis. But for others the answer is less clear.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Barry Eichengreen |
Viewpoint: Stress Test for the Euro Countries tempted to abandon the European currency face formidable barriers.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Charles Wyplosz |
Viewpoint: The Euro's Finest Hour? The euro has proved a safe haven for countries lucky enough to have made it into this exclusive club in time.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 S. Raihan Zamil |
Viewpoint: Regulatory Philosophy Matters Risk-based supervision sought to spur innovation and reward good behavior but helped bring about the global financial crisis.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 |
Still the Bottom Billion Glenn Gottselig interviews Oxford economist Paul Collier.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 |
Uncharted Territory When aggressive monetary policy combats a crisis. This chart shows how radically policy thinking has changed in the past century.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Horton & El-Ganainy |
Back to Basics: What Is Fiscal Policy? What is fiscal policy? And, how can fiscal tools provide a boost to the world economy?  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Donald Kaberuka |
Straight Talk: Start This Engine Africa's policymakers should prepare for global recovery by priming their private sectors.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 |
Data Spotlight: Roller Coaster The latest sharp rise and fall in commodity prices is not the first nor the last.  |
On Wall Street June 1, 2009 Yarek Aranowicz |
All Disquieting on the Eastern Front The contagion in Central and Eastern Europe has been called the worst economic crisis since the collapse of communism.  |
Financial Advisor June 2009 Jeff Schlegel |
Money In Motion The economic crisis has wreaked havoc on wirehouses, and more advisors are looking for new opportunities.  |
Financial Advisor June 2009 Evan Simonnoff |
Questions For Nick Murray Advisors will never again find so many people sitting on so much cash, so desperately in need of help with their retirement plans. This is simply prospecting heaven.  |
Financial Advisor June 2009 Erc Rasmussen |
REIT Place, Wrong Time The gutted real estate investment trust market girds itself for more pain.  |
Financial Advisor June 2009 Eric Uhlfelder |
Defibrillating The Markets Economist Henry Kaufman believes the U.S. financial system will likely require continued massive public capitalization, vastly improved regulatory oversight and more.  |
Financial Advisor June 2009 Richard B. Wagner |
What Is Wrong With Money? Its features make it unpredictable, mysterious and unreliable.  |
Financial Advisor June 2009 Evan Simonoff |
The Perfect Client Ever since last September, when an ordinary bear market turned vicious and a mild recession became the Great Recession, a certain type of individual keeps surfacing in my thoughts.  |
Chemistry World June 2009 Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
Editorial: Feeling the crunch The latest sector to feel the recession is the world of publishing and journalism. The print media industry has seen a number of high-profile casualties - and science journalism in particular has finally started to succumb to the difficult financial landscape.  |
MyBusiness Jun/Jul 2009 Megan Pacella |
Fair Trade The down economy has a lot of small businesses in a money squeeze, but you don't always need cash to get the products and services you need to run your business.  |
MyBusiness Jun/Jul 2009 Bill Dunkelberg |
Leading Indicators The economy remains in the dumps, as does small business owner sentiment about it.  |
Reason June 2009 Michael C. Moynihan |
What Caused the Crisis? In his new book, Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis, John B. Taylor argues that the government bears the most responsibility for creating and sustaining the current crisis.  |
Reason June 2009 Greg Beato |
Barter Country As the economy suffers, a nation turns toward cashless barter transactions.  |
Reason June 2009 Veronique de Rugy |
The Age of Debt Barack Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility" but delivers the opposite.  |
Reason June 2009 Brink Lindsey |
Nostalgianomics The rise in income inequality does raise issues of legitimate public concern. But the caricature of postwar history put forward by purveyors of nostalgianomics won't lead us anywhere.  |
IndustryWeek May 29, 2009 Steve Minter |
Purchasing Officers: Confident Now, But is Trouble Ahead? While the recession has strengthened their negotiating positions, many purchasing professionals have not yet assessed the impact of the recession on their supply-management strategy.  |
Information Age May 19, 2009 Pete Swabey |
Can Spending on IT Save the UK Economy? A new report claims that investing in the UK's public IT infrastructure would create 700,000 jobs. But do its claims hold water?  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Burton H. Lee |
The Investor's Guide to Space How to make profits that are out of this world  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Prachi Patel |
Experts Expect Resume Fraud to Rise In an economic downturn, the temptation to pad CVs is strong  |
Investment Advisor June 2009 Robert F. Keane |
A 20-Year Investment Theme Why climate change is likely to be one of the major investment themes of the next 20 years.  |
U.S. Banker June 2009 Joseph Rosta |
Trying to Rehabilitate Trade Finance World trade is declining this year for the first time since 1982, and by a projected nine percent, according to the World Bank - the steepest plunge since World War II.  |
U.S. Banker June 2009 Joseph Rosta |
Protectionism Is not Self-Defense As anti-trade measures pile up, "this will worsen the contraction of world trade and undermine confidence in an early and sustained recovery in global economic activity," the WTO says.  |
IndustryWeek May 20, 2009 Jonathan Katz |
CEO Turnover Spikes Volatility in the economy does not necessarily lead to volatility in the C-suite.  |
IndustryWeek May 20, 2009 |
A Tale of Two Industries Perhaps no two industries on the IW 500 took more divergent paths in 2008 than the automotive and energy sectors. Here's a look at how they fared.  |
Philanthropy May 1, 2009 Justin Torres |
Bear Necessities How are donors responding to the crisis? Regrettably, 2009 is shaping up to be a tough year for nonprofits that depend on private giving.  |
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 L. William Seidman |
Will the Fed's Medicine Work? Fed activity is unprecedented -- a new activism never seen before in the history of the United States.  |
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