Investment

Budget Battles

  • The Markets Play an All-or-Nothing Game

    By Chuck Mikolajczak, Reuters

    With Friday's payrolls report serving as a springboard to lift Wall Street stock indexes to fresh all-time highs, investors are left to contemplate whether the gains will fizzle or if the upward...

  • Why We Should Be Worrying About Deflation

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    Yesterday, the European Central Bank cut its principal interest rate to counter continuing slow growth. A key factor in the decision is evidence that inflation has been falling in the euro zone from...

  • Can Cash-Rich Investors Keep Snapping Up Homes?

    By Matthew Goldstein, Reuters

    The once-beleaguered Las Vegas housing market has been on fire since investment firms led by Blackstone Group LP, Colony Capital and American Homes 4 Rent began buying homes here some eight months...

  • Apple vs. the U.S. Government: Whose Bonds Are Safer?

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    On the surface, you’d suppose that there would be a big difference between Apple’s first bond issue in 17 years and the debt that the Treasury sells on a regular basis – carefully marked down on the...

  • Stockman: The Fed Is a 'Central Bank Gone Crazy'

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    The Fed is destroying conservative economics, David Stockman, the former Michigan congressman, Reagan budget director and private equity guru has been saying for the past month or so. So today’s...