by Jason Apollo Voss | 30 01 2011 | Blog
You may know that there is an annual political, economic and business confab of elites that takes place each year in Davos, Switzerland. The World Economic Forum is a place for powerful people to coordinate actions on a global scale. And to shape public perception...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 30 01 2011 | Blog
Evidence of the health of an economy abounds in both good times and bad. The evidence is often laying in plain sight just waiting for someone to notice it, and much more importantly, to understand it. Let me share with you two of my favorite ways of telling whether...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 29 01 2011 | Blog
My favorite source for geopolitical news and analysis, Stratfor, carried a story yesterday about the mixed signals coming from economic policy makers in China. Specifically, there seems to be an internal debate as to how to cool down the Chinese economy without...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 28 01 2011 | Blog
The U.S. Commerce Department reported this morning that gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2010. This result compares to an expected figure of 3.5% growth by a consensus of economists. Analysis: I consider this result to be...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 27 01 2011 | Blog
Earlier this morning I wrote a blog piece about the results of a comprehensive Federal inquiry into the causes and fault of the Great Recession. I based this post on stories carried by both the New York Times and Financial Times on Wednesday. Interestingly, both...
