The Fall of Confidence

Institutional confidence is akin to gravity. We know it's there, and we understand a lot about it - but we haven't yet been able to explain it adequately enough. At least not enough to quantify its relationship - or unify gravity with the other physical forces that we do understand.

Counting Your Chickens in Dollars:
backed by an amorphous construct - one that it is powerful and hostile. It is mathematically impossible to repay both official and unofficial debt without collapsing the system that manufactures it.

Market Forecasting - Is It Worth The Trouble?:
Is knowing in advance when the market will make a top or bottom 'worth the trouble'? That is the question all traders should ask themselves. Why bother?

The Financial Manhattan Project:
"It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so." -Robert Oppenheimer - Recently, I was saddened to learn that my college physics professor died a few years back.

Is Your College Fund Giving You the Value You Thought It Would?:
If you have kids, you will want them to enjoy their college life. Not only that, you will want your children to go to one of the best school so they can learn more and end up with a better job. Furthermore, if your kid doesn't have a college fund, he or she is likely to end up saddles with debt. With this in mind, here are four things to think about when asking the question, is your college fund giving you the value you thought it would?

Black Swans and White Noise:
The agitation can come from many things. From 'known knowns', like subprime or student loan defaults - to the unimaginable or trivial, like some upper air disturbance or a media driven accident that turns violent.Keywords

Investment and Its Importance:
Investment is essential from various point of view. Although investment need proper and focused approach to get high ROI. However, there are various factors that affects your investment and its profit. There are numerous way for the investment by which you can earn and secure the future.

We Are Never Going Back:
It has always fascinated me to hear the mainstream's interpretation of the gold standard. The great majority - including many who are part and parcel to the financial elite - elicit a knee-jerk response to its mere utterance. Many see the return to the most recent Bretton-Woods-based "imposed standard", not one based on market value.