The U.S. auto industry bailout and some inconvenient truths.

Posted by Greg Atkinson on Dec 9th, 2008

There is no doubt that the U.S. auto industry will receive some form of government assistance, however the real story is not the about the bailout itself, but rather what the bailout tells us about the U.S. economy in general. After all, how can U.S. car makers be struggling so badly when they are sitting [...]

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Life insurance claims – myth versus reality

Posted by Bronson Financial Services on Dec 8th, 2008

If you died, would your insurance company pay out your life insurance policy? Recent research by ING(1) revealed many people are reluctant to take out life insurance cover because of a belief that insurance companies will not pay out a life policy upon the policy holder’s death. Unfortunately it is a common perception by many that [...]

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A stock market rout and probable recession: it could be worse.

Posted by Greg Atkinson on Dec 8th, 2008

There is not a lot of good economic news in circulation at the moment. Today for example I read that the Dubai real estate market is heading for a big fall, and so it seems one of the last pockets economic optimism is about to get that gloomy feeling. I guess this might mean the [...]

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Investing for the long term.

Posted by Greg Atkinson on Dec 8th, 2008

Currently markets around the world are attempting to recover from some pretty dramatic losses and as always when there is a market correction, a seemingly endless array of “experts” pop up and share with us their great wisdom. However rather than try and sort out which experts seem to have the best theory this time [...]

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Control your computer (don’t let it control you)

Posted by Greg on Dec 8th, 2008

See your computer as part of the solution – not the solution itself. Computers and applications can make life a lot easier as they allow you to do so much more than ever before. The problem is that just because there are tools that allow you do something, people sometimes don’t question whether they should [...]

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Technical Analysis – Gann analysis on the Dow Jones Industrial on 1929 Market Crash

Posted by ozstock on Dec 8th, 2008

How does the current Credit Crunch directed Stock Market crash compare with he 1929 one which brought the Great Depression? Have a look at not only the chart I made below, but also W.D. Gann’s own analysis using his angles and time vs price method. —- Excerpt from Gann’s “The Basis of my forecasting method” [...]

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Tumbling rents in inner Sydney

Posted by cij on Dec 8th, 2008

Back in May 2007, in Australian property good investment? Part 4-rising rent good reason to ‘invest?’, we said that Rising property prices are fuelled by rising debt. What fuels rising rents? The answer is income! Renters do not borrow money to pay for rents-they pay rents out of their own disposable income. Therefore, with the [...]

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Anyone has any stories to share about hyperinflation?

Posted by cij on Dec 8th, 2008

Back in Zimbabwe’s central banker in praise of Fed, one of our readers, Temjin asked, Lol Praised by Zim’s RB, such a honor. But is Gono really really serious about his monetary policy will work in the very end? We scanned through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s First Quarter Monetary Policy Statement for 2008 and [...]

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Bernanke ticking off another inflation trick- buying Treasury securities

Posted by cij on Dec 8th, 2008

Remember, back in Bernankeism and hyper-inflation, we had a list of Ben Bernanke’s ‘unconventional’ (read: crazy) schemes to fight deflation. One of the schemes was already implemented (see Bernanke ticking off another inflation trick- becoming a business lender). That’s one tick in the list. Another scheme in the list is Purchase of long-term US Treasury [...]

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Demand for money, inflation/deflation & its implication

Posted by cij on Dec 3rd, 2008

Two years ago, we first covered the root cause of inflation in Cause of inflation: Shanghai bubble case study: The mainstream economists’ definition of inflation is rise in the general level of prices. However, according to the Austrian School of economic thought, the definition of inflation is the increase in the supply of money, in [...]

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