Weekly Economic and Financial Commentary:
U.S. Review The Wages of Unemployment Both the composition and pace of the recovery raises core issues for any business strategy for the year ahead. Longer-term and high unemployment compounds the credit/workout risks for con (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England's stimulus efforts will eventually fuel inflation but the economic outlook means interest rates could stay at record lows for at least a year, the Conservatives said on Tuesday.
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Submitted by wustl07
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Everyone wants 2 know where the stimulus money is. The government can't dump it on the economy b/c it's going to put inflation thru the roof. (Read More)
Submitted by ivorkellock
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The percentage balance of consumers expecting higher inflation over the next year has risen from -5% in July to +4% in October, according to the EU Commission survey. The current balance, while still depressed by historical s (Read More)
TODAY ON FOUND3R - Venture Capital STORIES:
Growth rates of 100 software companies from IPO DashboardFascinating study from IPO Dashboard showing the extreme unlikelihood of the "5 year dash to $50m turnover from startup" hockey stick business plan so beloved ov VC foc (Read More)
Submitted by frinsen
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[Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Matt McAllister and Jaini Shah of Offerpal Media. The article addresses issues that developers should consider when implementing virtual currencies. It focuses on the tradeoffs of how t (Read More)
Submitted by emmeffe2
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Boris Johnson will raise the cost of traveling in London by up to 20 per cent with bus users suffering the hardest, he announced today.A single pay as you go bus ticket will rise to £1.20 with off peak tube fares also rising (Read More)
www.ft.com:
Argentina's greatest handicap is its Peronist politics, which substitutes populism for policy. Argentines have been subjected to harmful export taxes, expropriated pensions and fudged inflation figures. (Read More)
Submitted by ericlogan
from YouTube:
How do the Obama deficits compare with past presidents? And how did the national debt get so big anyway. This video tries to answer those questions by looking at the debt as a road trip and seeing how fast different administr (Read More)
The Economist: Daily news and views:
A weak dollar explains the rising price of goldGOLD fascinates investors more than any other metal. The latest surge in bullion—nominal prices topped $1,050 an ounce during Wednesday October 7th, a record—has generated headli (Read More)
CNN:
Gold rallied to a an all-time high early Thursday as the dollar continues to deteriorate and investors remain concerned that a bout of inflation is on the horizon. (Read More)
Submitted by kchau
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Yesterday, ING Direct announced a clever new take on CDs – it’s the Added Value CD. The idea is very simple, you can get a 12 month CD with a rate of 2.25% if you open it and fund it with “new money” from a non ING Direct acc (Read More)
Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com:
Gold continued to push higher into record territory Wednesday amid concerns about a weak dollar, inflation and technical-based buying by large investment funds. (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
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LONDON (Reuters) - Gold powered to a record high on Wednesday, topping the previous day's gains, as dollar weakness and mounting worries about potential inflation enticed more investors to the precious metal.
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Submitted by nathan
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"Kindling" by Flickr user oskayThe advance of ebooks will no doubt bring much good. As often with technological change, we probably can't even predict what wonderful new things will emerge! But we can see some serious dangers (Read More)
Submitted by codelust
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We'll soon get the announcement. Here are a few possibilities, computed by Thomson/Reuters, using citation analysis.If I had to vote, it would be a Taylor/Woodford prize. For a sense of this work, see: link, link. While infl (Read More)
Submitted by ivorkellock
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The recent slide in sterling began on the day the Bank of England announced a £50 billion expansion of its quantitative easing programme. The timing is unlikely to be coincidental. The Bank’s gilt-buying may be creating exces (Read More)
The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond:
Dark energy is the deus ex machina of cosmology, able to save even the most inflation-prone calculations from destruction or - worse - being provably wrong. But while we've been busy watching the X-energy apparently ac (Read More)