Category Archives: Finance News

The Need For Sound Money

May 23, 2010   Alexander Stewart   No comments


“Coinage is imprinted gold or silver, by which the prices of things bought and sold are reckoned…. It is therefore a measure of values. A measure, however, must always preserve a fixed and constant standard. Otherwise, public order is necessarily disturbed, with buyers and sellers being cheated in many ways, just as if the yard, bushel, or pound did not maintain an invariable magnitude.” ~Nicholas Copernicus, “Treatise on Debasement,” 1517 “

Humans are by nature capitalists, says Nathan Lewes, the author of Gold: The Once And Future Money, because of their need to invest time and effort for greater productive. However, th

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How Do We Live Though Pressed For Money?

May 22, 2010   Alexander Stewart   No comments

The simple answer to my article title is creatively, but to those who need more, I will write more. When I say creatively, I do not mean anything illegal. I do mean creativity based on rational thinking and honest effort though. So many people have so much of a follow the leader mentality that illegal seems like the only answer. But if you or anyone digs deeper, it never is the only answer. Your or the problems of anyone takes effort, creativity and persistence to get over, and in that order I just mentioned too. But if working harder were simply the solution, we would all have no problems instantly and be rich although we work like a ship with no rudder or helmsman directing it and an all powerful motor running nowhere.

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The Secret to Surviving the Coming Economic Collapse

May 17, 2010   Alexander Stewart   No comments

The mainstream media would have you believe we are well on our way to a full recovery. Don’t listen to them. The underlying problems that led to the current recession and market collapse have not gone away. Americans are still buried in debt and world governments are printing more money to cover the cost of social programs and bailouts. The situation is getting worse with each passing month.

A small group of economists predicted the current crisis. These same economists are predicting things to get much worse before they get better. In fact, some are predicting the DOW to drop below 3,000. Think about the impact of that for a minute. That’s a 70% drop from its current level. If

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Mortgage Rate Increases Likely to Be Modest: Fannie Mae

May 15, 2010   Alexander Stewart   No comments

Fixed rate mortgages will rise this year, but not enough to choke off home buying activity by consumers, according to a new forecast out today by Fannie Mae.   The average rate on 30-year fixed rate mortgages should rise by about half a percent, the lender predicts, to around 5.5 percent, by year’s end.  While the boost is expected to sharply curtail mortgage refinancing, it should be low enough to sustain interest by home buyers.   Meanwhile, inflationary pressures are expected to remain subdued, and the lender does not expect the Federal Reserve will raise the benchmark federal funds rate above the current range of 0 – 0.25 percent before year’s end, thereby continuing a policy of monetary easing.   Issuin Read the full post

  Tags: Fannie Mae, Mae

Statistics on Women and Money Problems in the USA and a Particular Solution

May 11, 2010   Alexander Stewart   No comments

Lately, I came across the television and I could see a news story in which they talked about women employments and how their salaries compared against those of men. At that very moment, I realized that even in 2010, women’s wages are not reaching parity yet. Of course, they have come a long way since the enormous income gaps of the 1950s. But after doing some research, I passed in front of some very shocking statistics that I would like to share with you. I think that data speaks for themselves and if you are a woman, you’ll really have some stuff to think about. Her

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  Tags: Women, Women Money

What is Deflation?

May 08, 2010   Alexander Stewart   No comments

Currently we are still at the crossroads of beating the current economic recession, and one effect of this has been “deflation” in some sectors of our economies. What is deflation, and what are its actual effects?

Our economies are all different, despite the fact that most Countries do follow the free market economic modal to some degree. After 2008, interest rates were lowered to encourage savers to spend, as the great recession kicked in, and one effect of this has been deflation in some sectors of all our economies.

Deflation in academic terms is the effect of goods and services decreasing in price, usually in a recession, but in the business world common when some new products naturally decrease in price over time eg. com

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