Officials of the Federal Reserve stated that the recovery in the country is not yet strong enough to trigger off inflation and to bring down unemployment so as to warrant bringing an end to the low interest rates. On 16th March the Federal Reserve gave the assurance that they would retain their benchmark-rate “exceptionally low” [...]
For the eighth running month the factories in America stepped up production and inclement weather has not been able to halt it. Winter has been extra severe this year. Figures show that those engaged in the construction of residential houses has been able to weather the storms. The data from Federal Reserve show that industrial [...]
If the economy has to recover then Wall Street would have to be weaned away from its gambling addiction. There was a time when Wall Street provided services to their institutional clients. It assisted these entities to increase their capital by lending and stocks and bonds underwriting. Their assets were managed by Wall Street that [...]
The economy of USA still stands tall – even though China and India are growing faster. It is in technical innovation that America remains peerless. The current economic crisis may have caused Americans to be glum but there are signals coming from the heartland. These sounds have become hazy as they pass through the political [...]
A discussion was held at Commonwealth Club of California hosted by Andrew Leonard of Salon.com. The speaker was Dr. Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University. He sharply pointed that the way things were drifting it seemed that the economy would again go into a tailspin. His speech was compelling and brilliant with generous doses of commonsense, [...]
The derivatives are taken to be the prime culprit behind the financial crisis. Pundits consider it to be undercover deals. The attempt by the government is to rein these in and make their operations more pubic so as to avoid a repeat of the recent financial crisis. Professor Lynn Stout has been focusing on law. [...]
The setting up of a bank that would be owned by Michigan State was proposed by Virg Bernero the Mayor of Lansing. It would advance loans with modest interest rates to business concerns and college students. Mayor Bernero (Democrat) said that this bank would somewhat mitigate the pain of the foreclosure catastrophe by purchasing mortgage [...]
Wall Street is far from happy with the political speeches pouring out of Washington. It is now making use of the right granted to it by the Supreme Court ruling while talking about money. It is going to shift more of the dollars towards the Republicans. But this poses the gains of what are the [...]