Paul Krugman seems to be having a supply-side-economics moment… sort of. Raising taxes, the NY Times columnist and Nobel laureate has been arguing lately, threatens Japan’s fragile economic recovery. “Shinzo Abe is doing the right thing, seeking to delay the next rise in consumption taxes,” Krugman wrote on his blog yesterday. “This is good economic policy….” It’s…
Japan’s yen rose for the first time in seven days as Finance Minister Taro Aso said its decline has been too fast. Most Asian stocks fell, with the regional index headed to its biggest weekly retreat since mid-October, while crude oil climbed for a second day. The yen added 0.4 percent to 117.77 per dollar…
The impossible is possible. Never say never. Wall Street bankers are staring agog at headlines coming from Europe where, in Iceland, the former chief executive of one of the largest banks in the country which was involved in crashing the economy in 2008 has been sentenced to jail time. As Valuewalk reports, in receiving a one year prison sentence, Sigurjon…
You may recall our announcement back in September that Business News Network (BNN) in Canada partnered with MoneyShow to create an exciting new program at The World MoneyShow Toronto 2014: The Confidence to Invest. The one-hour special was recorded onsite at the conference and is now airing during prime time on BNN! Watch now The Confidence…
Working capital issues, often driven by unpaid invoices, are the catalyst for 25% of SME bankruptcies in France. Finexkap is working on changing all that with their online working capital financial platform, a first in France. Photo Credit: PR, co-founders Arthur de Catheu and Cédric Teissier In order to scale-up development and launch lending activities before…
Econintersect: Week 46 of 2014 shows same week total rail traffic (from same week one year ago) grew according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR) traffic data. Rail growth this week continues to demonstrate an improving economy – but the rate of growth softened in all of the rolling averages reported below. Rail counts are growing…
The US Daily Cash Deficit for Wednesday 11/19/2014 was 9.2B bringing the November 2014 deficit to $62B and the 2014 YTD deficit to $609B. Click on picture to enlarge As expected revenues have pulled back to even as last year’s TARP revenue failed to come through this year….not a surprise. Outlays continue to slowly gain…
It’s been 2 years since Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. (ETH – Snapshot Report) was a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). The furniture retailer recently easily beat the Zacks Consensus in the fiscal first quarter and analysts have been raising full year estimates. Furniture is back! Ethan Allen is an upscale home furnishing retailer. It operates 300 design centers in…
You have to hand it to Big Tobacco. As an industry, it’s a survivor. It’s doing everything it can to reinvent itself in a world in which its core product—cigarettes—becomes more of a social pariah with every passing year. Let’s take a look at what Big Tobacco is up to and what it might mean…
It isn’t just our economy that is crumbling. Something is happening to America that no amount of money will be able to fix. Everywhere around us we can see evidence of the social decay that is systematically eating away at the foundations of our society. It can be found on the streets of our inner…
