What Does the Future Hold for the American Dollar?
“The dollar is the weakest currency except for all the others,” George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, told The New York Times last week. However, his confidence in the U.S. dollar is not...
View Article4 Key Economic Drivers That the Shutdown Slowed Down
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zieak/ Counting the casualties from October’s Washington political battle could take months. Beth Ann Bovino, an economist at Standard & Poor’s, estimates that...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank Takes Opposition View on Treasury Yields
Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB) is forecasting low yields on U.S. Treasury bonds in a Bloomberg survey, predicting year-end yields of 2.25 percent. One of only four other banks who predicted the trouncing...
View ArticleWill This Be the Newest Member of the Federal Reserve Board?
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usembassynewdelhi/ Janet Yellen may soon have someone to keep her company while awaiting Senate confirmation. Lael Brainard, who currently serves as the U.S....
View ArticleU.S. Kicks Off the New Fiscal Year With a $92 Billion Deficit
On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury released the first budget report of the new federal fiscal year — and so far, so good. With total outlays of $291 billion and total receipts of $199 billion, the United...
View ArticleForeign Investors Look for Safe Bets in U.S. Securities
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/epsos/ Foreign residents increased their holdings of U.S. securities in July, according to the Treasury International Capital report. The U.S. Treasury reports net...
View ArticlePortugal: Bonds For Sale!
Isabel Castelo Branco, the secretary of state for Portugal’s treasury, thinks that government bonds will likely be sold in auctions before mid-May, when Portugal’s bailout is slated to conclude. The...
View ArticleFederal Budget Deficit Narrows With Record December Surplus
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackofspades/ The U.S. Treasury reported on Monday that the federal government actually managed to run a budget surplus in December. Total outlays fell 15 percent...
View ArticleCan Obama’s myRA Help Americans Avoid a Retirement Crisis?
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68751915@N05/ President Barack Obama is apparently as sick and tired of Congress as the American public is. Calling out the legislature for its destructive...
View ArticleWhat the Fed’s Ongoing Taper Means For Your Money
Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images On Wednesday afternoon the Federal Reserve announced that it would be tapering its bond-buying program by another $10 billion per month, which brings the total monthly...
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