European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi may follow the U.S. lead and fire off his own bazooka. Requesting broader spending powers, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson famously told Congress that he needed “a bazooka” to head off the financial crisis. German magazine Der Spiegel reports that the ECB is now considering
A potential game changer for gold, silver, euro, and yen is just ahead. The game changer is the meeting of the European Central Bank (ECB). Traditionally the ECB has towed the line of the Bundesbank inflation hawks. Jean-Claude Trichet, the chief of ECB until 2011, kept monetary policy tight and
The key to generating wealth over a long period of time is to identify when one macro cycle ends and a new macro cycle begins. In economics, a macro cycle is defined as a cycle of big picture economic performance, structure, and behavior. No bell is rung at the end