"Take that financial markets!" – the EU & IMF

Very, very early Monday morning in Europe, the EU in conjunction with the IMF announced a massive financial bailout package that is comparable in size to the U.S. TARP funds of the last recession.  Specifically, the components of the EU plan are as follows: 440...

The IMF loans to Greece

This afternoon it was announced that the International Monetary Fund approved a three-year $38 billion loan to Greece.  The loan is the single largest amount ever given by the IMF to a single country.  The loan is a portion of the monies being lent to Greece, with the...

Emergency fund in the Eurozone

Because there is a potential for financial market panic regarding the bailout of Greece, as well as other struggling European economies, the members of eurozone economies are conducting emergency meetings.  So far there is not much to write about other than the usual...

Many, many jobs added!

In April the United States added 290,000 jobs, far, far more than the 180,000 jobs economists had been expecting.  What’s more, March’s originally reported increase of 162,000 has been revised upward to 180,000.  Despite these job adds the unemployment...

Wow on the Dow

The news today is sure to be replete with stories of the almost 1,000 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Averages.  That is pretty close to a 10% drop.  Ostensibly the stock markets value the worth of U.S. businesses.  Can anyone out there reading this honestly...