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The World Bank chief Robert Zoellick has declared that “Global food prices are rising to dangerous levels and threaten tens of millions of poor people,”.  The World Bank has released it’s latest data that reveals an overall increase of 15% from October to January,...

The economies of developed nations rests on a foundation of credit.  If we factor out the large credit items like mortgages and business loans, that leaves credit cards or plastic.  US consumers alone hold approximately 610 million cards, averaging 3.5 cards per household.  98%...

Why would someone want to shrink the buying power of the US dollar?  If you’re an economist your hypothesis would be that the government must have a devalued dollar in order to avoid defaulting on their massive $133 trillion debt and other obligations.  Obligations to seniors,...

Parts of Australia are experiencing their worst flooding since 1974.  Estimates call for 20,000 homes and businesses to be affects, as well as 200,000 people.  Queensland has 350,000 square miles underwater (larger that France and Germany combined). Despite being small in the minds...

If you ran your company like the US runs the federal goverment, you would have been bankrupt long ago.  While companies can’t go on borrowing money endlessly while consistently losing money, governments do. Then it will come as no surprise the the US Treasury requested US Congress...

Yesterday, we reviewed the do’s about adding value to your home in a troubled market.  Today, we’ll examine the don’ts.  These are the real estate industry’s version of “old wives’ tales”. - in ground swimming pools – unless you want...