Economy & Markets
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Muni Bonds’ Tax-Exempt Status Threatened in Fiscal Cliff Talks
By Melanie WaddellMembers of the newly formed Municipal Bonds for America descended on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to protect the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds.
November 21, 2012
Hidden InflationInflation in the United States has been remarkably low, despite a lethal combination of extremely loose monetary policy and trillion-dollar annual budget deficits, which apparently have become a new normal.
November 21, 2012
Before Buying That Hot IPO…IPOs are supposed to represent the Holy Grail. But is it really your lottery ticket to riches?
November 21, 2012
Predictions by Fisher, Gundlach, Rodriguez: Research’s All-Star RoundtableA Research Roundtable of five distinguished names, including Kenneth Fisher, Jeffrey Gundlach and Robert Rodriguez, serve up their best analytic thinking and forecast how critical situations could shape up next year.
November 21, 2012
Mohamed El-Erian: ‘The IMF Is Right About Greece’What to do with Greece? A question that will likely be remembered for dominating discussion in 2012.
November 20, 2012
A New Way to Buckle Up: Convergent and Divergent StrategiesAfter his sure bet against the deutsche mark temporarily wiped him out in 1920, John Maynard Keynes famously quipped, The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
November 20, 2012
Can the Eurozone Survive a Stormy 2013?The eurozone and its politicians continue to face many unresolved and highly important issues.
November 20, 2012
American ParadoxDue to the vagaries of print magazines, I am writing this on Election Day 2012. Due to the vagaries of Hurricane Sandy, I am writing this from the Jersey…