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6 May 2014 | 26 replies
Economists, experts and whoever else called for dooms days, the U.S. losing its world reserve currency status, DOW going to 1,000, etc... since one of the darkest days in our history 2008-2009 mortgage meltdown, what happened?
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23 June 2014 | 0 replies
The Economist featured a fascinating and well researched article in May’s print edition called, “Shadow Banking in China: Battling the Darkness.”
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9 January 2013 | 6 replies
I heard economists speculating recently that since the Fed is saying they will not raise interest rates for at least another year or two, that banks will now be forced to loosen the reigns and starting lending again.
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5 February 2013 | 17 replies
Overall Alaska has been chugging along at about 1% growth for the last 10 years (I just listened to a couple of economists speak about this).
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21 March 2013 | 27 replies
So the gap is widening.Most economists will talk about how important the middle class is for us and this inequality is wiping out the 3 classes (low-middle-upper) into 2 classes (low-upper).
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17 February 2014 | 31 replies
No one fully understands the world economies, ask two economists the same question and you'll get two different answers.
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25 February 2014 | 27 replies
I read a very interesting article in Economist related to this topic Future of jobs I am a millennial and got a degree in Accounting.
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12 May 2014 | 41 replies
Ouch.Some economists and "experts" should be prosecuted for selling doom and gloom.
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10 April 2014 | 1 reply
These rules, enforced by the CFPB are having the effect of eliminating a large percentage of potential loan candidates.In recent months, loan origination was down by a large percentage – this has mostly been explained by economists and even Fed chair Janet Yellen, as caused by “unseasonably cold weather”.
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27 March 2014 | 14 replies
That is a big concern of mine economists and financial analysts are screaming that job growth is increasing but that’s actually fair from the truth.