Category: Economic Stimulus
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Economic Decoupling Set to Increase Amongst G20 / Economics / Economic Stimulus
By: John_Browne
This week, the leaders and finance ministers of the 20 most economically important nations, or G-20, will convene in London to develop coordinated policies that they hope will prevent a worldwide depression. The leaders will also consider greater transnational regulatory oversight of the financial industry and the future of the U.S. dollar as the world's 'reserve' currency. By any reckoning, this meeting will be the most important international economic conference since Bretton Woods in 1944, or the Great Powers economic meeting in Rome in 1922.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Defending Capitalism from Old Europe's G20 Guillotine / News_Letter / Economic Stimulus
By: NewsLetter
April 1st , 2009 Issue #24 Vol. 3 Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Defending Capitalism from Old Europe's G20 Guillotine / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Germany and especially France have fought long and hard against the anglo-saxon model of unfettered and weakly regulated free market capitalism for the past 30 years, and as a consequence of which have seen their economic power diminish in relative terms as the anglo-saxon capitalism model was adopted world-wide following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 30, 2009
The Thinking Behind the Stimulus and Bailout Programs / Interest-Rates / Economic Stimulus
By: John_Mauldin
It is important to understand the thinking of those who are in fact making the decisions at the Fed and Treasury. In today's Outside the Box, Paul McCulley, Managing Director at PIMCO, gives us some insight into the thinking that is driving the massive stimulus and bailout programs. Whether or not you agree, it is important to have a handle on what is actually happening and the thinking behind it.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 30, 2009
The Marginal Productivity of Debt, Why Obama's Stimulus Package Is Doomed to Failure / Economics / Economic Stimulus
By: Professor_Emeritus
Paper mill on the Potomac - The paper mill on the Potomac is furiously spewing up new money. According to the manager of the mill, as indeed according to the Quantity Theory of Money, this should stop prices from falling and the economy from contracting. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 30, 2009
Three Processes to Restore Sustainable U.S. Economic Growth / Economics / Economic Stimulus
By: Submissions
Thomas Auchincloss writes: Recent media and financial market attention has been highly concentrated and responsive to the latest initiatives of Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner. While such attention is warranted, the latest activities of the Fed and Treasury are addressing just one aspect of the bundle of ills that befall the economy and that there are actually three processes that need to complete to a sufficient, if not ideal, degree to restore an attractive basis for long term U.S. economic growth. They are: righting the financial system, systemic de-leveraging and re-balancing the global trade and currency systems.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Economic Stimulus Packages — The Hidden Threats / Economics / Economic Stimulus
By: Submissions
Dr. Raju M. Mathew writes: Following the American lead, lunched by President Barrack Obama, almost all governments, including China, India, Kuwait, the UAE and several other countries have either introduced or are on the process of introducing economic or financial stimulus packages to make an early recovery from the global economic crisis, that they prefer to call ‘Recession’. But they are forced to admit that it is more severe than the Great Depression of 1929. Then, of course, it must be the Great Depression II of 2009, lasting several years to recover. A series of global summits to deal with the crisis are under way. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The Obama Administration Building a Weak Economic Foundation / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: John_Browne
With a series of coordinated pronouncements and media events, the Obama Administration has recently been trying to send a signal to investors. But the message received may not have been the one intended. Reading between the lines, the Administration is indicating the financial crisis has become so overwhelming to them that there is no alternative but to throw infinite amounts of taxpayer money at it until, they hope, it passes. But what if the very measures meant to hold the dike until the storm passes are actually undermining whatever protection we have left?Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Economic Stimulus is Bankruptcy of the Economy / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
The distraction on Capitol Hill this week has to do with the jackpot bonuses that executives at AIG recently received. The argument is over a relative drop in the bucket. The total amount of bonuses given out was $165 million. The government has put $170 billion into AIG so far. Many now are demanding we get this money back. We ought to be spending our time and effort doing something more worthwhile, like figuring out how the Federal Reserve is handling the trillions of dollars they are creating and pumping into the economy, and how that is affecting the purchasing power of dollars in your pocket.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Get an Income Tax Boost From the Obama Economic Stimulus Plan / Personal_Finance / Economic Stimulus
By: Money_Morning
Ron Brounes writes: So what will $800 billion buy these days? At the macro level, the Obama administration's rescue plan will buy some new roads and bridges, 3.5 million new jobs and, hopefully, an economic recovery in the process.
On an individual level, the benefit will come from the mix of tax benefits that are part of the package.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The Mantra of Cutting Wasteful Government Spending Against Reality of Stimulus Spending / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: John_Browne
Last weekend, Ben Bernanke took an unprecedented gamble for a sitting Fed Chairman: he granted a long-form interview to 60 Minutes, America's most watched news program. There can be no doubt that the interview came about as the result of a coordinated strategy between the Obama Administration and the Federal Reserve. But was the decision to offer the public a rare look at the inner workings of the central bank an act of resolution or desperation?Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, March 15, 2009
G-20 Summit a Complete Waste of Money / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: Mike_Shedlock
Those who expected much of anything to come out of this G-20 meeting were mistaken. The bottom line is that every country is going to do what it wants, and unfortunately most of them have agreed to do the wrong thing which is to stimulate lending. In addition, a fight of sorts as broken out between the US and EU over additional stimulus proposals. With that backdrop let's take a look at some snips from G-20 pledge sustained action on financial crisis .
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Friday, March 06, 2009
Economic Stimulus Plan Lacks Backbone / Economics / Economic Stimulus
By: Jennifer_Barry
Infrastructure falls below most investors' radar, but it's a globally important theme. Developing nations have to replace crumbling structures built by former colonial rulers, as well as construct new pipelines and mass transit to serve their exploding populations. In nations like China, millions have moved from rural to urban areas, requiring a huge expansion of infrastructure. Even with the economic crisis, the middle class is a powerful force in developing nations. Newly prosperous citizens want more than just basic sanitation and transportation, however. They desire First World quality infrastructure, and they can increasingly afford to pay for it. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, March 06, 2009
Obama Success or Failure, Which is Better for the U.S. Economy? / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: Peter_Schiff
Talk show host and conservative icon Rush Limbaugh recently ignited a firestorm of criticism for expressing his desire that Barack Obama should fail. Democrats, and even some Republicans, suggested that he had put aside his patriotism to wish for an economic collapse that would result in political advantage for conservatives. However, if you believe as I, and apparently Rush, that Obama's plans will prevent recovery, then wishing that they fail to become actual policy is the right thing to do. The problem is that since Mr. Limbaugh has a history of partisanship, and since he did not forcefully criticize the Bush Administration for similar (if slightly more modest) plans, many cannot see past the messenger to recognize the truth in the message.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 02, 2009
Is Government Stimulus Spending the Answer? / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
This week, Congress and the administration once again showed their lack of economic understanding, as they ramped up spending to record levels. On the surface, maybe it does look to some like the economic crisis is a liquidity problem, that the economy is in trouble because money is not changing hands at the pace it once did in the boom years. They believe that to get back to a booming economy money needs to start changing hands again - and the quickest way to do this is for the federal government to massively expand spending to pump new money into the system. If this is the extent of their understanding, no wonder they call for spending, taxing, bailouts and inflation.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, February 27, 2009
Obamanomics Will Destroy What's Left of the U.S. Economy / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: Peter_Schiff
In his first televised speech before Congress, President Obama asserted that prosperity will return once the government restores the flow of credit in the economy. It may come as a surprise to him, but an economy cannot run on consumer loans. Furthermore, credit stopped flowing in the U.S. for a very good reason: there was no more savings left to loan. Government efforts to simply make credit available, without rebuilding productive capacity or increasing savings, are doomed to destroy what's left of our economy.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Flaws in Obama's Economic Stimulus and Banking System Rescue Plan / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: U.S. President Barack Obama's speech to the joint session of Congress late Tuesday was a beautiful performance. His language was exquisite, his delivery was superb, his rhetoric - at times - truly uplifting. It no doubt reflects a fault in my makeup that I found it not entirely convincing - but then I'm a math major and a former banker. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The Politics of Economic Stimulus Spending and Bank Bailouts / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: Dudley_Baker
Foreword: Arnold Bock, a Canadian living in Mendoza , Argentina is part of my editorial staff at Precious Metals Warrants and we are proud to have him on board and trust you will enjoy his latest article. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Grand Economic Stimulus Experiment and the Catastrophic Flaw / Economics / Economic Stimulus
By: Mick_Phoenix
Welcome to the Weekly Report. I have seen much head-scratching about the methods being employed by the US authorities in the attempt to turn off the road to depression and onto the highway to prosperity. Many have heard President Obama talk of the failure of government spending to turn around both the US '30s and the Japanese '90-current depressionary eras because the actions taken back then were too slow and too small.
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Presidents $10 trillion Economic Stimulus Package / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: Steve_Selengut
For homeowners: Cut the interest rate on all mortgage loans by 50 basis points and extend the payment schedule by three to five years. Convert all variable rate loans to fixed, at prevailing rates, and extend the payment schedule by six to ten years. No fees, points or charges tolerated.Read full article... Read full article...