by Jason Apollo Voss | 11 07 2011 | Blog
Yesterday the President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, called for increased regulation of non-bank financial institutions. Specifically he was quoted as saying: “Strengthening resilience is absolutely essential given the fragility...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 10 07 2011 | Blog
Two pieces of news this weekend only serve to reinforce my view that China is experiencing massive inflation. Chinese inflationary pressures just won’t go away despite the Chinese governments efforts to rein them in. The first piece of news comes from...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 08 07 2011 | News & Events
Hello loyal fans and blog readers! Very good news, AskMen.com – that superstar Internet site with 15 million readers a month – is featuring Yours Truly on their home page, in their very popular Top 10 section, and in their finance and investing section....
by Jason Apollo Voss | 08 07 2011 | Blog
Ah yes, the last 24 hours is one of those brief spans as an investor and a finance blog writer designed to make you look foolish. First we had good news on U.S. unemployment and now, today, we have bad news on U.S. unemployment. Yesterday ADP (the private...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 08 07 2011 | Blog
The late May and early June financial market sell off had many causes, but among the most important was the sputtering recovery in the U.S. jobs market. In fact, the data for about five weeks now has been mixed to down. Until now. Separate jobs figures this...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 07 07 2011 | Blog
You might have heard that the debt of the country of Portugal was lowered to “junk” status on 5 July, 2011 by Moody’s, one of the three major international debt ratings agencies. Now various European governmental officials are criticizing the...