Bernanke Opening Statement

Feb. 9 2011 | Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke takes questions on the economy and inflation.

End of Japan Deflationary Environment is Near

Feb. 7 2011 | Robert Parker, senior advisor at Credit Suisse, says prospects of a weaker yen and low price-to-book ratios for Japanese corporates will benefit the country's equity market this year. He tells CNBC's Martin Soong & Saijal Patel that he's forecasting positive inflation in Japan by mid-year.

Jobs, Ads and Mubaraks Pay Raise - Bloomberg TV

Bloomberg TV's Dominic Chu and Adam Johnson go under the radar to talk about the stories you may not have heard today.Jobs, Ads and Mubaraks Pay Raise - Bloomberg TV

Fractals, Fibonacci and socionomics

In the 1930s Ralph Nelson Elliott identified repeating patterns in stock market, which he termed "waves". Robert R. Prechter Jr. linked the psychological basis of waves to humans` unconscious impulse to herd and observed that social mood governs not only finance but also areas as diverse as popular culture, economic production, electoral politics and war. He has proposed a new field called socionomics - the science of history and social prediction.
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Unemployment Falls to 9.0%, Only 36K New Jobs

The unemployment rate dropped sharply last month to 9 percent, the lowest level in nearly two years. But the economy generated only 36,000 net new jobs, the fewest in four months. (Feb. 4)

Inflation Threat to Markets

Feb. 3 2011 |Discussing how big a threat inflation poses to the markets, with CNBC's Courtney Reagan; Peter Boockvar, Miller Tabak; Alan Valdes, DME Securities; and Peter Costa, Empire Executions.

ADP Report Points to Positive Job News

Payroll processor ADP reported that private companies added 187,000 jobs in January, more than economists expected. (Feb. 2)

Insight From JPMorgan Leaders

Jan. 28 2011 | Discussing why economic optimism is justified, with Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan chairman/CEO and Mary Erdoes, JPMorgan Private Bank.

Food Inflation Sparking Unrest worldwide

Jan. 28 2011 | Philippa Malmgren, president of Principalis Asset Management told CNBC that inflation played an important part in the political uprising in North Africa. "First you have to price them out of food and then this happens, so we should expect this across many countries," she said.

2011 Davos Forum Kicks Off

The 2011 Davos Forum kicks off. This year's theme is Shared Norms For New Reality.

How Severe Is Europe's Intertwined Debt Crisis?

Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the ongoing fallout from Europe's debt crisis, which has led to political woes and bank bailouts among other problems. His update is park of his ongoing series on Making Sen$e of financial news.



It's a big problem for the banks that took the loans they knew they never should have made. These people are not idiots, they knew they were making choices that would end their companies. This is what bothers me about the media, they set up their story to make it seem like they're are defending the people, but then they always end it with some words like that, "a big problem for us all". How is a private company's bad loans my problem?

Interview with Rainer Brüderle, German Economics Minister

The German Economy : How can it continue to prosper? In the interview: the German Economics Minister, Rainer Brüderle.



German industry out sourced to cheap labour eastern europe and industrialist maximized their profits. German workers were forced into lower wages. the birth rate has collapsed because life in Germany is too competitive. the rich have become super rich at the expense of workers. in 50 years there will be no Germans workers left. germany will be a country only in name.

Niall Ferguson : Post-American World a New Dark Age ?

Historian Niall Ferguson fears a post-American world would bear close resemblance to the Dark Ages that followed the decline of the Roman Empire. He foresees chaos across the Middle East and the rise of China as the next superpower. "A world without a strong America is a dangerous world," he exclaims.
I normally like Niall but I don't think that it will be a new dark age.When Rome collapsed it was the dark ages in Europe only, a dark age for only about 8% of the world whereas in the rest of the world we couldn't care about Europe.


Niall Ferguson, David Gergen, and Mort Zuckerman discuss how America's global standing will be affected by the continuing financial crisis. This program was recorded in collaboration with the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival, on July 8, 2010.

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.Yes we are headed for a new dark age and deceptive history professors/ globalist minded finacial advisors. are helping things along nicely.I could tell this man has an agenda from the start.