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The Motley Fool February 11, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Scared of a Weak Dollar? Buy These Stocks What a puny greenback means for exports. |
The Motley Fool May 11, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Exports on Fire The U.S. might not be the fastest-growing economy in the world, but it doesn't have to be. Riding the back of tomorrow's giants is nothing to be ashamed of. |
The Motley Fool June 5, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
Bernanke Changes Strategy The Fed chief has taken the fight to inflation. |
BusinessWeek May 14, 2007 James Mehring |
Growth: More Than Meets The Eye While real gross domestic product, the popular gauge of economic growth, is slumping, another measure of economic activity called gross domestic income remains strong. |
BusinessWeek May 21, 2009 James Cooper |
Business Outlook: The Fed Should Be in No Rush to Raise Rates Trading in the futures market already shows investors are betting the Fed will begin to lift its target interest rate within the coming year. But time is on Bernanke's side, and he won't want to jump the gun. |
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
Canada: Can Policymakers Keep Inflation Quiet? Canada's economy appears to be behaving just as the Bank of Canada would like: tame growth with low inflation. But for how long? |
BusinessWeek October 15, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outloook: The Waning Threat of Deflation The recovery is starting to reverse many trends putting downward pressure on prices and wages, paving the way for the Fed to begin tightening in 2010 |
BusinessWeek December 13, 2004 Cooper & Madigan |
Canada: A Stronger Currency Is Curbing Growth Canada is seeing how a strong currency can tap the brakes on economic growth. But unlike central banks elsewhere, the Bank of Canada seems to welcome the slowdown. |
BusinessWeek November 3, 2003 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: The Virtuous Cycle Is Finally Kicking In As the recovery takes hold, GDP growth may hit levels not seen since 2000. |
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 James Mehring |
Japan: Pinning Hopes On Consumers Japan's economy stumbled in the third quarter and a sudden turnaround in exports appears unlikely. That puts the economy in the unexpected position of having to rely on consumers as the source of growth for the time being. |
BusinessWeek September 17, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outloook: How the Global Economy Is Rebalancing This time Asia, the Americas, and Europe are all accelerating together. This synchronized rebound will lift trade broadly, to the benefit of U.S. exports. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Bill Mann |
A Weak Dollar Is Bad? Guess Again. Why a weak dollar isn't all bad. |
BusinessWeek August 15, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: An Economy This Warm Won't Cool On Its Own Robust growth may require the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates into 2006. |
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: A Silver Lining's Menacing Cloud Higher demand will lead to a rising trade deficit -- even with a lower dollar. |
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. |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: Why Inflation Fears Are Unfounded The Fed will have plenty of time to reverse its huge stimulus, as unused labor and production capacity prevent price pressures from building. |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2007 James Mehring |
A Slower Speed Limit For The Economy? The second quarter produced solid economic growth, but there was also important news about revisions to real gross domestic product covering the past three years. |
BusinessWeek July 23, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: A Second-Half Recovery Could Be Fleeting Output may rise to slow inventory depletion, but gains won't be sustainable without stronger consumer spending. Trouble is, job markets remain weak. |
The Motley Fool November 9, 2007 Todd Wenning |
The Dollar Will Rebound We shouldn't forget that currency markets are cyclical. The dollar will be strengthen, then weaken, and then strengthen again, ad infinitum. Investors, where do you want your money to be when the next swing happens? |
BusinessWeek July 16, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: A Resurgent Asia Will Lead the Global Recovery Robust exports to China and other emerging markets will help stabilize the U.S. economy, but U.S. demand will be too weak to offer its traditional support to world growth. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Tim Callen |
What Is Gross Domestic Product? Economists use many acronyms. One of the most common is GDP, which stands for gross domestic product. A concise explanation of GDP. |
Managed Care February 2002 |
Hospital costs lead way in health care expenditures The share of the gross domestic product attributed to health care increased slightly more than overall GDP growth from 1999 to 2000 -- the first time that's happened in nine years... |
BusinessWeek August 2, 2004 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S. Labor Markets: The Truth About Worker Pay Just how big is the squeeze on the pay of American workers? The answer is not as clear-cut as the polarized views of each political camp would lead you to believe. |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2011 Matt Koppenheffer |
Could It Be? Is the U.S. Still Growing? Get the lowdown on the big news and what it means for your portfolio. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its "advanced" estimate for third-quarter gross domestic product today. GDP growth clocked in at 2.5% after creeping along at a lackluster 1.3% rate in the second quarter. |
BusinessWeek May 7, 2007 Peter Coy |
Some Gain From The Dollar's Pain New signs point to the likelihood of a much-improved U.S. balance of trade. |
Registered Rep. June 9, 2011 Diana Britton |
Double Dip Recession Is Unlikely, Says Hoey It's unlikely we're headed for a double dip recession, but we are in a "sub cycle slowdown in a sustainable economic expansion," said Richard Hoey, chief economist at BNY Mellon and the Dreyfus Corporation. |
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 Neal Sandler |
Israel: A Bunch Of Blooms In The Desert After the worst recession in the country's history, Israel is staging an economic comeback. |
The Motley Fool October 29, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Here's Why the Economy's Growing Ah, the beauty of stimulus. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz |
5 Questions Craig Karmin, author, The Biography of a Dollar, answers five questions regarding why the dollar has fallen, and what he thinks comes next. |
U.S. Banker March 2010 Michael Widner |
A Long, Slow Slog For the first time in 50 years, consumers and businesses are shrinking their debt. Unemployment is higher than ever, and the jobs recovery will take years. So is the economic rebound sustainable? |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2010 Morgan Housel |
How Is This Economy Going to Keep Growing? What the GDP numbers will tell us on Thursday. |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2008 Brian Lawler |
The President's Stimulus Plan Misses the Mark The current proposal to distribute billions of dollars in rebate checks would boost the wrong part of the economy. |
The Motley Fool February 25, 2004 Mark Mahorney |
Don't Shortchange the Dollar What you need to know about the dollar and investing in foreign companies. If you're investing in multinational or foreign companies, you might be a daredevil currency speculator and not even know it. Here's what you need to know -- and likely aren't being told -- about the effect of currency fluctuations on your investments. |
The Motley Fool January 4, 2007 Chuck Saletta |
Dueling Fools: 2007 Bear A weaker dollar and the resulting inflationary pressures are going to make 2007 a difficult year for American consumers. Yet thanks to an emerging global middle class, the rest of the world may very well fare better. |
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 James C. Cooper |
Stagflation Lite? Growth is set to slow as oil and food prices continue their climb - an unwelcome, familiar combination. But there are reasons to expect a gentler version this time around. |
The Motley Fool June 13, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Stimulus + Inflation + Trade Deficit = Jitters It's been a heck of a week on the economic front. Inflation continues to push into consumers' lives, oil pulled back just slightly from last Friday's ghastly gain, and a presidential candidate called for another government stimulus package to ignite the economy. |
BusinessWeek August 6, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: Greater Expectations for Second-Half GDP Growth Economists are raising their second-half forecasts to 2% to 3%, a pace that would increase the chances for a sustainable economic recovery. |
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Cooper & Madigan |
Australia: Careful Of That Rate Hike, Mate The Reserve Bank of Australia has begun the fight to preempt any rise in inflation. But its hike in interest rates is not without risks. |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2010 Morgan Housel |
GDP Growth Revised Way Down: What Should You Make of It? Second-quarter GDP growth was revised down to 1.6%, from the initially reported 2.4%. This sounds god-awful, like we're on the brink of a double-dip recession. And maybe we are. But this revision isn't as bad as it might seem. |
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
Is That a Whiff of Inflation? The forces that have held inflation back are starting to move in another direction. And 2005 will offer a crucial test of just how much our new age of global competition can continue to keep price pressures under wraps. |
BusinessWeek December 3, 2007 James C. Cooper |
Looking Hard at Inflation--All of It The Fed has long made policy while averting its eyes from food and energy. But it may be impossible to turn away any longer. |
The Motley Fool August 28, 2008 Rich Duprey |
Big Dollars Are Growing on These Trees Deep discounters Big Lots and Dollar Tree grab a passing sales boost from the stimulus plan. |
The Motley Fool May 2, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
This Week in the Economy This week's bad economic news is good news because it's not even worse. But it sure seems like we're a long way from a strong economy. |
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Cooper & Madigan |
Mexico: Feeble Growth Calls For Heftier Reforms Mexico has not yet benefited from the U.S. growth spurt, and the weak pace emphasizes the need for reforms in labor laws, energy, and taxes. |
BusinessWeek June 4, 2007 James C. Cooper |
U.S.: Get Ready To Exhale: The Slowdown May Be Ending A pickup in manufacturing signals stronger growth is on the way for the economy. |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2007 James C. Cooper |
U.S.: Stop Thinking Rate Cut, Start Thinking Rate Hike With economic growth rebounding, it's time to revise expectations. |
BusinessWeek April 2, 2007 James C. Cooper |
U.S.: Say Goodbye To High Growth And Low Inflation The economic Eden of the late 1990s and early 2000s is slowly fading. |
BusinessWeek December 6, 2004 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: The Coming Battle Between Profits And Prices Pricing power is rising, but so are costs, and that will soon squeeze margins. |
The Motley Fool February 12, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Another 1990s Economic Explosion? So says the White House in their prediction of growth and inflation for the next few years. |
The Motley Fool August 14, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Inflation Nightmare Just Got 5.6% Worse Prices surge faster than they have in 17 years. What's a Fed chief to do? |