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The Motley Fool September 30, 2008 Morgan Housel |
National Debt: The Race Toward $10 Trillion We're about to breach a seriously depressing milestone. |
The Motley Fool March 12, 2009 Morgan Housel |
4 Years of Wealth, Up in Smoke A report by the Federal Reserve says that U.S. household net worth fell 18% in 2008, sending us back to just below the same wealth level as 2004. |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Confidence Is Back After bottoming out in February, consumer confidence is now the highest it has been since the financial tsunami began last September. |
U.S. Banker June 2011 |
More, More, More The total wealth of millionaire households is on track to balloon in the next decade, but most of that will be outside of the U.S. |
The Motley Fool October 20, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Larry Kudlow's Brilliant Idea for a Tax Holiday How about a 5 percent tax holiday to bring foreign earnings back home? |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: Why Consumer Spending Won't Drive a Recovery Households are paying down debt and rebuilding their nest eggs, so they're not spending. Still, that's unlikely to thwart a modest economic upturn. |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Why It's So Slow Deleveraging is by far the largest reason our economy is so slow. |
The Motley Fool December 6, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Slow Jobs Market? Blame Housing The key to getting the economy back on track is deleveraging -- paying off debt accumulated during the bubble years. For households, the vast majority of that debt is in the form of mortgages. |
The Motley Fool March 13, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Avoid This Triple Whammy to Your Wealth Control what you can. If you dedicate yourself to reducing debt and keeping your savings levels up, then you'll be better able to weather a storm of decreasing asset values. |
BusinessWeek April 1, 2010 Miller & Timberlake |
As Recession Fades, Americans Head to the Mall After two long years of belt-tightening, U.S. consumers are finally starting to spend again. That is giving the economy a much needed boost. Will the shopping spree continue? |
BusinessWeek April 11, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Consumers May Just Keep Flexing Their Muscles Because of overall brighter financial conditions, consumer spending will continue. |
Investment Advisor April 2009 James J. Green |
Numerology: Whither the Wealth? U.S. households lost $5.1 trillion of their wealth in 2008's final quarter, or 9%. |
BusinessWeek December 27, 2004 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Consumers Are Piling On The Presents Rising employment and household wealth are bolstering spending. |
CFO October 1, 2003 Ronald Fink |
Proceed with Caution Economist Philip Arestis warns that recent signs of revival are largely illusory. |
The Motley Fool September 10, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
A Pessimistic Economic Prediction Fool readers weighed in on the U.S. economy and the results were surprising. Surprisingly pessimistic, that is. |
BusinessWeek December 26, 2005 James C. Cooper |
Why More Households Are Feeling Flush New Federal Reserve data shows that households are the wealthiest they have ever been. |
Finance & Development December 2009 Tanner & Abdih |
Rebuilding U.S. Wealth A world that frets about lost consumer demand should also worry whether newly frugal U.S. households will save enough. |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2006 Anthony Downs |
Hard Truth of a Softer U.S. Housing Market Rising home prices and falling stock prices have greatly changed the composition of household assets since 2000. This shift has significant implications for commercial property markets as well as housing. |
The Motley Fool March 12, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Why They're Billionaires, and You're Not Billionaires who keep their emotions grounded and stick with great companies end up crushing those who manically jump into whatever investment feels best at the moment. |
The Motley Fool July 23, 2009 Morgan Housel |
The $23.7 Trillion Confusion How much are taxpayers really on the hook for? Tens of trillions less than some expect. |
The Motley Fool June 24, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Why It Could Take Years to Recover We're drowning in debt, and no one wants to rescue us, but these problems that took decades to create can't be solved in a matter of months. |
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: What's Everyone So Rattled About? Despite record wealth, business and consumers remain wary of the future. |
The Motley Fool February 24, 2010 Morgan Housel |
An Ominous Sign for Recovery? Many people are wondering what yesterday's miserable consumer confidence report says about the future. As consumer confidence tanks, the thinking goes, so do our chances of an economic recovery. |
BusinessWeek June 25, 2007 James C. Cooper |
Interest Rates Are Up, But Are They Up Enough? Financial conditions may still be too lax to keep inflation under wraps. |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Bad News for Big Banks How the new FDIC rules will impact megabanks. |
The Motley Fool March 26, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Wrap Your Head Around These Numbers Learn just how big a billion and a trillion are. |
Wall Street & Technology November 18, 2008 Greg MacSweeney |
Don't Leave Home Without ... Bank Status? The Federal Reserve's ill-conceived decision to provide bank's with anonymity makes the entire process less transparent and only further contributes to the industry's poor reputation and lack of investor confidence. |
BusinessWeek April 19, 2004 Michael J. Mandel |
Where Wealth Lives The productivity boom has made asset owners rich -- and left many wage-earners behind. |
Wall Street & Technology October 28, 2008 Greg MacSweeney |
Deconstructing "Too Big to Fail" With increased regulation an almost foregone conclusion, the financial services industry will have to work to regain trust and credibility. |
The Motley Fool November 8, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Fuel Building for an Economic Recovery When the economy turns around, this Fool thinks the recovery will be fast and furious for stocks. |
BusinessWeek October 1, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: The Recovery: It's the Herd vs. History A growing consensus predicts a weak rebound from the recession, but that would go against both the latest data and a trend dating back nine business cycles. |
BusinessWeek September 17, 2007 James C. Cooper |
Bernanke May Need To Dig Deeper Into His Toolbox It could take a broad rate cut to stabilize the markets and the economy. |
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Consumers Will Keep Carrying the Ball True, jobs aren't back. But tax cuts and refinancings are doing the trick. |
The Motley Fool August 19, 2010 Andrew Sullivan |
We're in a Depression. Don't Let That Get Your Portfolio Down How to position your portfolio during bad economic times. |
The Motley Fool August 21, 2006 Mike Norman |
It's All About the Flow Here's a guide on how investors can use the Fed's quarterly report to position for big trends. |
On Wall Street July 1, 2012 Lorie Konish |
Global Wealth Makes Its Move Private wealth fell 0.9% to $38 trillion in North America in 2011, yet rose 10.7% to $23.7 trillion in the Asia-Pacific region. Welcome to the new reality of a so-called "two-speed world." |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Is This Just the Eye of the Storm? Given the market's recent rallying and yesterday's exuberant response to May consumer confidence data, it seems like many investors are going with the notion that the worst is behind us. Think twice before assuming our economy's difficulties are over. |
Financial Advisor November 2008 Gregory Bresiger |
Life Will Be Good Again -- But When? Diversify investments. Don't worry, the markets will recover. That's the message of John Waggoner, a personal finance journalist for USA Today, in his slim new volume entitled Bailout. |
The Motley Fool September 3, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
Expert Summit: Where Does the Market Go From Here? Top financial pros offer their outlook on the market for the rest of 2009 and beyond. |
U.S. Banker June 2011 Dan Geller |
Bank Deposits: An Economic Ballot Box Never before in the history of U.S. banking has such a large amount of money been held in liquid accounts. |
Financial Advisor July 2012 |
Crisis Wiped Out 18 Years Of Household-Wealth Gains, Fed Says The financial crisis wiped out 18 years of gains for the median U.S. household net worth, with a 38.8% plunge from 2007 to 2010 that was led by the collapse in home prices, a Federal Reserve study showed. |
BusinessWeek June 4, 2009 James Cooper |
Business Outlook: Consumer Spending Is a Snag in the Recovery Consumer spending was down again in April. Now with gas prices and mortgage rates on the rise, confidence won't likely return in the near term. |
BusinessWeek October 15, 2007 James C. Cooper |
Don't Count Out The Consumer Just Yet If the job markets don't falter, households may keep up their spending. |
The Motley Fool October 28, 2009 Morgan Housel |
So Much for Confidence After rebounding sharply, overall consumer confidence is back in decline. |
The Motley Fool September 30, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Don't Do It, Goldman Some investors pine for a return to investment banking. Big mistake. |
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S. GDP Revisions: The Recovery's Lift Is Slower For Workers The much anticipated U.S. rewrite of economic history hardly alters perceptions of the recent past. But the data do give reasons to be optimistic about the future. |
Registered Rep. May 27, 2004 David A. Gaffen |
High-End Investment Advice Grows Globally The private banking industry is growing at a level not seen since the late 1990s, reflecting not only an increase in the market but also an influx of new money into these firms. |
Registered Rep. February 24, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
News Roundup: Obama Spends to Save, Bernanke States the Obvious and AIG says, "Help," Again. Someone should let the stock market in on the secret to economic recovery; investors clearly haven't been too psyched about Treasury's plan. |
CFO March 1, 2010 Russ Banham |
The Shape of Things to Come L, V, or W? Perhaps a check mark, or something with a wiggly tail? Top economists debate what the recovery will look like. |
BusinessWeek December 25, 2006 James C. Cooper |
U.S.: Count On Consumers To Keep Spending Expect a more moderate pace as job growth and wealth gains slow. |