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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 September 30, 2011 Morgan Housel |
It's the Debt, Stupid What's really slowing the economy. The recession that started in 2007 was different. It was caused by an inherently unsound economy driven by debt. |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Wealth Is Back! Household wealth sees its first jump in two years. What's it mean for the economy? |
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. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool September 6, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Silver Linings in Tomorrow's Recession It might not be as bad as you think. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Finance & Development December 2010 Kumhof & Ranciere |
Leveraging Inequality THE United States experienced two major economic crises over the past 100 years -- the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2007. Income inequality may have played a role in the origins of both. |
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. |
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 October 4, 2004 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: What's Everyone So Rattled About? Despite record wealth, business and consumers remain wary of the future. |
BusinessWeek December 27, 2004 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Consumers Are Piling On The Presents Rising employment and household wealth are bolstering spending. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2011 Morgan Housel |
50 Amazing Numbers About the Economy Important stuff you probably didn't know. |
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 April 12, 2004 Rich Miller |
The Firepower In Consumers' Pockets Why they'll keep spending despite the job market |
On Wall Street January 1, 2012 Rob Stein |
Here Comes The Contraction -- And It Could Be Good For Us Rather than believe the sky is falling again, this time there is cause for optimism. |
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? |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2009 Toby Shute |
Kiss the Rally Goodbye Some recent arguments for a continued market revival are seriously lacking in support. |
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 7, 2009 Morgan Housel |
A Brutal Truth Facing Consumers A deleveraging economy and an altered standard of living. |
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. |
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%. |
Financial Advisor February 2010 Michelle Knight |
Exit Strategies The road out of the recession is fraught with risks that include spiraling budget deficits and out-of-control inflation. |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Peter Coy |
Why the Fed Isn't Igniting Inflation Yes, the Fed is expanding the money supply. But any inflationary effect will be offset by consumers' new frugality. |
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. |
The Motley Fool August 12, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Good News for Consumers, Bad News for Banks Consumer credit surged from 2004 to 2008. It made a lot of people artificially rich. Now that bubble is quickly deflating -- in some cases, faster than it inflated. |
The Motley Fool July 22, 2010 Morgan Housel |
John Mauldin: Japan Is a Bug Searching for a Windshield John Mauldin on the economy and what's in store for market watchers. |
The Motley Fool February 12, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
How to Deal With This Crazy Investment Climate Part 2 of an interview with Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab's Chief Investment Strategist. |
BusinessWeek December 29, 2010 Argitis & Quinn |
Canadians Spend Like Crazy Americans Household debt up north edges past the American figure as recent prosperity has driven demand for bigger and better housing. |
U.S. Banker May 2010 |
Overspending Threatens Economic Recovery Consumers began to save and the government issued a tax cut. Now spending by both is on the rise again. Unless tough choices are made, this won't end well. |
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. |
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Michael Mandel |
The Consumer Crunch Recession or not, American families will be forced to tighten their belts. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2014 van Kipnis & Barnhill |
Quantitative Easing Federal Reserve actions could create an unexpected risk for commercial real estate values. |
The Motley Fool June 16, 2006 Mike Norman |
Tune Out the Debt Doomsday Crowd Concerned about our astronomical national debt? You shouldn't be. Here's why. |
Financial Advisor December 2009 J. Michael Martin |
A Sensible Strategy Here are six suggestions for investing in the new economic reality. |
The Motley Fool February 4, 2010 George Magnus |
The Bungee-Jump Recovery ... and the deadweight of sovereign debt. |
Financial Advisor March 2008 Steven Holt Abernathy |
Overcoming The Leverage Fallout If the war escalates, a couple of big hedge funds or banks implode, or if the Street banker/brokers finally come clean and tell us the scope of what is floating around out there in Level 3 exposure, we could see the abandonment of the dollar and a challenge to the existing financial system. |
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. |
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Stephen Savage |
What Just Happened The magnitude of this market decline exceeds the frame of reference of nearly every advisor in business today, and most of their clients. What approach can advisors take with shell-shocked clients? |
Finance & Development March 2011 Irena Asmundson |
A History of World Debt How public debt has changed since 1880. |
Finance & Development September 2009 Francesco Giavazzi |
Growth after the Crisis If the world economy is to recover, a replacement must be found for the newly frugal U.S. consumer. |
The Motley Fool July 24, 2011 |
Unheeded Lessons: What Did We Fail to Learn From the Financial Crisis? A panel of thought leaders weighs in. |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2011 John Maxfield |
Stocks That Rock in Times of Trouble Don't let the gloomy economic outlook get you down. Invest in a sector that thrives in hard times. |
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008 Todd Wenning |
Why We Still Have a Long Way to Go As the consumer goes, so goes our economy. And if the newest consumer confidence figure is any indication, an economic turnaround won't happen any time soon. |
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009 Mark Gilbert |
Why the Fed's Next Act Could Be Its Hardest U.S. financial policymakers have managed to ease the recession with extraordinarily aggressive actions. But crafting a return to normalcy will be the real test. |
The Motley Fool January 21, 2010 Morgan Housel |
5 Articles You've Got to Read Random brilliance from around the Web: Wells Fargo on Interest Rate Risk... Debt and Deleveraging: The Global Credit Bubble and its Consequences ... Record Cash Means S&P 500 at Half its 2007 Valuation... more... |
The Motley Fool May 9, 2011 Cindy Johnson |
Are Banks Starting Another Race to the Bottom? Easier credit standards are being driven by competition to lend. |