Salient to Investors: Justin Wolfers writes: The risk of deflation is greater than the risk of explosive inflation. The Bureau of Economic Analysis revised its estimates for the personal consumption expenditures price index – the index the Fed targets aiming for inflation of 2 percent – to 0.1 percent negative
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: fast cash loans with bad credit Karl Denninger writes: The pattern is nearly identical to that at the beginning of 2008. Debt continues to rise, and the biggest growth area remains the federal government. The sharp change in debt and GDP over the last few quarters is identical to
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Nouriel Roubini at NYU writes: The rout in the emerging market asset classes is past midway but more is ahead as the recovering West points to Fed tapering. Many stages in the shift in the US and global monetary and financial conditions are to come within the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: QE and money printing will end one way or the other and cause problems in the world economy, so expect another economic slowdown within the two years. Read the full article at http://blogjimrogers.blogspot.com/2013/09/money-printing-is-going-to-end.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest forecasts.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Leland Miller and Craig Charney at China Beige Book Intl said China’s economy slowed this quarter and demonstrates that the conventional wisdom of a renewed, strong economic expansion is seriously flawed. Their data reveal weakening gains in profits, revenues, wages, employment and prices. The official pickup spurred
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The IMF said: Euro area countries should be prepared to lose some degree of control over their budget, pool resources to set up an insurance program and do common borrowing. The 17 euro-nations need to toughen rules enforcing fiscal discipline and set up fund transfers before crises
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Bill Gross at Pimco said investors should not trust the opinion of Moody’s Investors Service on the US’s Aaa rating and should instead trust S&P, Fitch & Egan Jones for credit ratings. Gross said Moody’s and the US Treasury are one happy family over the US debt limit
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Don Hodges at Hodges Funds said the noise is disruptive to people doing anything with great confidence, and any market this strong over the last few weeks is capable of a pullback that shakes people a little. A Bloomberg poll counted 44% expecting the economy to remain
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The Templeton Frontier Markets Fund closed its fund to new money, as record cash inflows turned frontier markets into the world’s best performers in 2013 – the MSCI Frontier Markets Index is up 13 percent in 2013 versus a 4.6 percent drop in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers writes: As the Chinese get richer and richer, this will drive global tourism. Read the full article at http://blogjimrogers.blogspot.com/2013/09/chinese-will-drive-global-tourism-market.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the latest forecasts.
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