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It was the bursting of the American subprime housing bubble that triggered the Global Financial Crisis, and while the US is slowly climbing out of its worse slowdown since the Great Depression, with house prices edging tentatively upwards with the recovery, unemployment in America is still stuck at close to 10 per cent and some of the country’s most credible economists are still refusing to rule out a slide back into recession. But while Australia these days is able to rely substantially on Asian markets, particularly China, to feed our ongoing resources boom, the fragility of America – and Europe, for that matter – are still capable of hurting the stronger economies. Yale University economist Robert Shiller is a perhaps America’s pre-eminent academic expert on fluctuations in both the housing and stock markets. He was the first to warn explicitly of the looming subprime disaster in 2005….. www.abc.net.au *

Is Gold a good investment? Gold was over 0 around 1980 but then sank to 0 two years later. Since 2001 it has been climbing. But is it still a good investment? The Nikkei 225 has fallen and the yen is up. The high valued Yen means it is harder for the Japnaese to sell their products. See how the Yen is related to gold prices. Citigroup and GE are falling again. Many finacial stocks have become penny stocks.

Life’s Financial Choices and, How to make the right ones!

How to become a Millionaire in 5 years. By Purchasing Residential Investment Properties

sister organization the World Bank — in Washington this weekend. Sovereign wealth funds, government-owned pools of capital, have attracted attention of policy-makers as the size of their assets has exploded and their activity in equity investment has grown. Developed countries, the recipients of much of the investment from sovereign wealth funds, are worried growing cross-border investment could feed protectionism. They want the funds to commit to transparency and market-based …

sister organization the World Bank — in Washington this weekend. Sovereign wealth funds, government-owned pools of capital, have attracted attention of policy-makers as the size of their assets has exploded and their activity in equity investment has grown. Developed countries, the recipients of much of the investment from sovereign wealth funds, are worried growing cross-border investment could feed protectionism. They want the funds to commit to transparency and market-based …