Posts Tagged ‘ inflation ’

A New Age of Corporate Takeovers Could Soon Emerge

Sep 3rd, 2009 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
Inflation can do tricky things to markets. It creates distortions. In those distortions, an intrepid investor can find some big moneymaking ideas. I think we've got one opening up in oil and gas, and it is not without precedent in financial markets. In fact, it's starting to look a little ...read more

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Berknanke’s Big Bet

Mar 18th, 2009 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Macroeconomics
Sunday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sat down with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley for an interview on the state of the American economy. The interview was notable for two reasons – first, because interviews with the Chairman of the Fed were until now almost unheard of, and second, because Bernanke ...read more

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How You Can Win with Silver

Mar 17th, 2009 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Commodities, Featured
Leaving your money under your mattress isn’t exactly the safest bet. It doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out that government stimulus plans, bank bailouts, and lower interest rates all add up to inflation. If more money is circulating due to new spending measures, the value of each dollar --including ...read more

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The Federal Reserve’s Reflation Infatuation

Nov 20th, 2008 | By Chris Mayer | Category: Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
Some concepts I can explain to my 9-year old son, Calvin, but economists with advanced degrees seem not to get it. Calvin, named after my favorite ballplayer (Cal Ripken, though my wife hates it when I say that. “We didn’t name him after Cal Ripken, we just liked the name!”), ...read more

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