Understanding the Credit Crunch

Hugo Chavez, who is recovering from cancer surgery in Havana, ordered his government to weaken the exchange rate by 32 percent to 6.3 boliva...

Former ECB chairman , Jean-Clause Trichet, expressed his opposition to those economists who advocate a weaker euro based on the fact that it...

The World According to Reuters. Reuters has identified the top 10 global threats facing markets for 2013, in ascending order, starting with...

The top financial risks, as perceived by analysts (polled by Reuters) for the fourth quarter of 2012 were: The fiscal cliff Low growth a...

A brief review of the documentary "Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis" by Devell Borgs under the auspices of journeymanpictures (...

Technology for natural gas powered vehicles (NGV) is making new strides in lowering costs and reducing emissions. Fueling costs of natura...

5 Major Geopolitical Risks Facing Commodity Markets In 2013 : "On January 14, Deutsche Bank published their 2013 market outlook in wh...

By Grant de Graf Sovereign debt can be defined as Bonds issued by a national government in a foreign currency, in order to finance the iss...

By Grant de Graf The Economist has once again posted its Big Mac Index, a measure of the strength of foreign exchange rates, based on the...

The following variables will play a critical role in governing financial risk in 2013: Sovereign debt Political instability Regulation ...

Uri Dadush, senior associate and director of the International Economics Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,in an opi...

Merissa Meyer, Yahoo's new CEO makes an interesting observation in conversation, with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker, at the World Ec...

By Grant de Graf CNN Money reports:  U.S. stocks are flirting with all-time highs, climbing to levels not seen since before the financia...

By Grant de Graf Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has signaled that he will not ease up on the $85 billion in monthly bond purchas...

The WSJ reports:  The euro, once on death's door, is on a months long tear, rising Wednesday to its highest level since November 2011....

German unemployment unexpectedly declined in January for the first time in 10 months. The number of people out of work fell a seasonally a...

By Grant de Graf Italy continues to wrestle with its own set of economic woes, a victim of one of the latter casualties of the European ec...

By Grant de Graf Further proof that the crisis in the EU is deteriorating and the the recession is deepening, is found in an article in ...

By Grant de Graf The contraction of the U.S. economy in the last quarter of 2012 comes as little surprise. The nation's gross domest...

Grant de Graf In yet another blow to the European Debt Crisis, the latest economic statistics underscore the severity of the recession a...

The WSJ reports in an article "In EU a Test of Wills"  the realization by EU officials that the challenges related to increased ba...

By Grant de Graf In an interview with the WSJ, hedge fund manager, Oscar Schaffer, describes the unusual correlation between stock perform...

Hedge fund manager Oscar Schaefer explains that GDP growth doesn't always correlate with stock returns. And he tells us why Hertz shar...

By Grant de Graf Professor Klaus Schwab's arguments for not exiting the Euro was published in the Huffington Post on January 19, 2013 ...

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I'm commenting about the interview in Davos with the Blackstone Group's John Studzinki, by Reuter's Alex Smith (January 26, 201...

In an interview with Reuter's Alex Smith, John Studzinki from the Blackstone Group declared that Europe is much calmer (See Author's...

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