Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders sees weak growth for the U.S. for “quite some time” — though she doesn’t see another recession on the horizon — and…
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Krugman: We Need a Short-Term Fix
While many say the U.S. should be focusing on long-term solutions to its debt problems, Nobel Prize-winning Economist Paul Krugman says that a more pressing need is a short-term fix…
Siegel Sees "Irresistible Values"; Says This Isn't Another 2008
Author and Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel says the current low valuations in the market make it unlikely that we’ll see another decade of meager returns for stocks, like we did…
Sonders on the Impact of a U.S. Downgrade
Charles Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders says there’s still a possibility that the U.S. could have its credit rating downgraded, but also says the implications of a downgrade may not be…
Companies that Would Make Congress Jealous
In his latest article for Nasdaq.com, Validea CEO John Reese takes a look at companies that have done what Congress has had struggled to do — rein in spending. “While…
Siegel and Shiller Debate the Debt Conundrum
How should the U.S. go about cleaning up its debt mess? In a recent interview with MarketWatch, two of the world’s top economic minds — Professor Jeremy Siegel of Wharton…
The Problems with Debt-to-GDP Ratios
U.S. debt is climbing toward 100% of GDP — a figure that many are seeing as magic number that portends doom. But Yale Economist Robert Shiller says that logic is…
The Danger of The Greece/Lehman Comparisons
While many are worrying that a Greece debt default will rock the stock market and financial world the way the Lehman Brothers collapse did in 2008, Mark Hulbert says there…
#1 Fund Manager Profits from Debt
While debt can be a dangerous thing, Fidelity’s Thomas Soviero — who recently supplanted Ken Heebner as the top-performing fund manager of the past decade — says it can also…