By Robert Wiedemer, Posted in General Macro Economy on November 28, 2012

This article was originally published in March 2012. A front page article in the Washington Post's Business section the other day caught my eye. It discussed in-depth a theory of economics called the New Monetarist Theory. In short, the group of...(more)

By Robert Wiedemer, Posted in General Macro Economy on July 13, 2012

This article was originally published in February 2012. Here we are again. It's the end of the bad dream and recovery is upon us. We've seen this before. After Bear Stearns went bankrupt, the worst was behind us and the recovery had begun. Once the Fed...(more)

By Robert Wiedemer, Posted in General Macro Economy on June 27, 2012

I was watching CNBC's Squawk on the Street and one of the people on the show, I forgot who, asked a very good question about the European debt crisis. The question was, "Why doesn't the ECB just put a cap on the interest rate of Italian 10-year...(more)

By David Wiedemer, Posted in General Macro Economy on December 2, 2011

We mention the US money supply a lot in our writings, how it has expanded dramatically since the Fed began quantitative easing (QE) and how that will lead to inflation. But you might be wondering what exactly we mean by "money supply." And how does it...(more)

By David Wiedemer, Posted in General Macro Economy on November 18, 2011

Recently the Federal Reserve lowered its expectations for recovery, predicting that high unemployment and slow growth would continue through at least 2014. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke announced that in spite of the forecast, the Fed will not be taking...(more)

By Cindy Spitzer, Posted in Retirement on October 7, 2011

Talk about lousy timing!  For those of us in or nearing our Baby Boomer golden years, the coming Aftershock could not be coming at a worse time.  The three big ways most of us have been investing and growing our wealth – stocks, bonds,...(more)

By Cindy Spitzer, Posted in Real Estate on October 7, 2011

Despite some marginal improvements in some areas of the country, the overall US real estate market is not on the upswing, as many had hoped it would be at this point in the so-called “recovery.”  That is because this is not a temporary...(more)

By Cindy Spitzer, Posted in Stocks and Mutual Funds on September 28, 2011

By Aftershock coauthor Cindy Spitzer, September 27, 2011 Massive money printing the Federal Reserve has become a sweet addiction that the stock market can’t seem to do without.  Like a sugar rush, quantitative easing (QE1 and QE2) has been...(more)

By Cindy Spitzer, Posted in Gold and Silver on September 28, 2011

By Aftershock coauthor Cindy Spitzer, September 27, 2011 Lately, a lot of people have been asking me “What happened to gold?”  And I have been saying “Buying opportunity.” Not so sure?  Take a look at a 10-year chart...(more)