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Michael Snyder: What in the world is going on in Europe (NYSEArca:VGK)? Each day things just seem to get stranger and stranger. We are being told that a “deal” for a second Greek bailout has been reached and that Greece will not default in March. But behind the scenes it seems clear that many politicians Read more…
Sy Harding: Kudos to central banks. The eurozone debt crisis produced two years of fears that it would result in financial collapse and a severe recession in Europe (NYSEArca:VGK) that would spread Read more…
Michael Snyder: Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail. Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt. Unfortunately, no debt bubble can last Read more…
Michael Snyder: Do you want to see what a 21st century economic depression looks like? Just look at Greece. Once upon a time, the Greek economy was thriving, the Greek government was borrowing Read more…
Michael Snyder: An economic nightmare is descending on Europe. With each passing month, the economic numbers across Europe get even worse. At this point it is becoming extremely difficult for Read more…
Adrian Ash: Take record-high debt, add record-low interest rates, and what do you get in gold…? SECOND ONLY to Japan, the UK (NYSEArca:EWU) now wears the greatest debt burden of any major economy today – in total, more than 5 years’ entire economic output. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Call #1 - An Update on Europe & Overweight Norway: While there have been developments toward solving the European debt crisis in recent months, more needs to be done. Read more…
Ron Rowland: If you’re a regular reader of Money and Markets, you weren’t surprised last Friday when Standard & Poor’s downgraded the sovereign debt of nine European nations. I’ve been expecting it, as have Martin Weiss, Mike Larson and our other editors. My main question: What took them so long? Read more…
Michael Johnston: The development of the bond ETF industry in recent years has been well documented; as investors have become more comfortable with the idea of achieving fixed income exposure through the exchange-traded structure, inflows to this corner of the market have grown significantly. Read more…
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Michael Johnston: As the ETF universe has expanded dramatically over the last several years, many investors have taken advantage of this asset class to tap into international equity markets. With single-country ETFs dedicated to dozens of developed and emerging markets, accessing the major Read more…
Michael Snyder: The European debt crisis has just gone to an entirely new level. Just when it seemed like things may be stabilizing somewhat, we get news of huge financial bombs being dropped all over Europe (NYSEARCA:VGK). Very shortly after U.S. financial markets closed on Friday, S&P Read more…
Sy Harding: A year ago there was widespread confidence that with the recession having ended in June, 2009, the economy continuing to recover, further QE2 easing underway, and the stock market clearly in a new bull market, that 2011 was going to be a great year. Read more…
Dian L. Chu: The Euro Zone debt crisis has certainly kept the credit rating agencies busy in the news headline. On Friday, 16 Dec. Moody’s downgraded Belgium’s credit rating by two notches to Aa3 with Read more…
Joseph L. Shaefer: “Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett. Since Mr. Buffett has traditionally favored a US market orientation, he was thinking about the inevitable changes in investor behavior that create the market cycles we are all-too-familiar with Read more…
David Zeiler: By timing its downgrade threat to the same week as a key European Union (EU) summit on the debt crisis, Standard & Poor’s is essentially telling Europe’s leaders to “Fix it or else.” Read more…
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