A Solid Gold Fix for the National Debt
Posted: 6/28/2011 12:00:00 AM
How does America, looking up from the bottom of a $14.3 trillion sinkhole, claw its way out of debt? For starters, says perennial Wall Street bear James Grant, go back to the gold standard.
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A Year after the Flash Crash: It Can Happen Again
Posted: 5/6/2011 9:13:00 AM
On the first anniversary of the Flash Crash, the huge single day disruption and lightning-quick recovery that rattled the stock market, we still don’t know exactly what caused it or whether enough…
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Islamic Bonds: Return to Fiscal Responsibility
Posted: 4/5/2011 11:23:00 AM
Now might not be the best time to sell Americans on the benefits of Islamic finance. American military forces are bogged down in three Muslim countries and Congress is holding hearings on the pote…
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It’s Time to Tap the Strategic Oil Reserve
Posted: 3/24/2011 5:08:00 PM
Mohammed Al Hamli, minister of energy for the United Arab Emirates, recently said it is a “myth” that the world’s largest oil cartel reduces oil production from its member states in order to drive…
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Get Ready for the Maiden Voyage of QE3
Posted: 3/22/2011 2:16:00 PM
Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s greatest contribution to American politics may turn out to be this bit of wisdom: “You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste.”
The world has…
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