Editor's Note: This article was written by Richard Suttmeier, chief market strategist at ValuEngine.com, which is a fundamentally-based quant research firm in Princeton, New Jersey, that

Edward R. Dewey was a Harvard-educated economist who worked for the Department of Commerce during the 1929 stock market crash. After the crash he was assigned the task of finding out what caused the

The past quarter century was a fun one for the American consumer. But after all that borrowing and spending, consumers have re-discovered the benefits of thrift and prudence. This is good news for pe

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A recent Bloomberg article was titled Pandit “Near Death” Hoard Signals Lower Bank Profits, and stated that Citigroup Inc. (C) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) were hoarding cash as if

The markets have witnessed the damage from banks with significant exposure to residential and consumer loan markets. But how bad will the commercial real estate crash hurt? Upcoming earnings from som

1. The Debt Crisis is SimpleAwash as we are in a sea of Federal Reserve- and Treasury Department-sponsored financial acronyms, it would be easy to assume the complexity of the debt crisis is beyond t

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UK Economy Contracts Again The UK’s longest recession in a generation continues. Britain’s Office for National Statistics said today the economy shrank 0.4% in the period from July throug

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