Is the US Industrial Growth Potential Perching on Top of the World?
May 20th, 2013 | Morris Beschloss |
Why is it that the leading global investment focus currently is on the USA? Is it also a coincidence that the U.S. industrial sector, including high tech, as well as exports, is surging? Even the turb ...Read more
April Federal Budget Surplus First in Five Years
May 17th, 2013 | Morris Beschloss | It wasn’t exactly a record-busting bonanza, but the federal government was able to show a sliver of black ink in April, a feat that had not been accomplished since before the "global financial break ...Read more
US-Produced Oil Product Exports Gain Accelerated Opportunities
May 16th, 2013 | Morris Beschloss | Prior to the turn into this century, oil experts predicted a long-term energy increase in imports from such foreign sources as Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Canada. These were expected to fill the U.S. ...Read more
Is World Economy Held Hostage by China's Growth Turbulence?
May 15th, 2013 | Morris Beschloss | When China announced in mid-April that economic growth had slowed to 7.7% year-on-year, in the first quarter, down from 7.9% in the fourth quarter of 2012, one would have thought that the already torp ...Read more
US Immigration Growth Policy History Reflected Politics/Economy
May 14th, 2013 | Morris Beschloss | While the current heating up of the immigration debate seems relegated to political confrontation, its history is more akin to the economic tribulations the U.S. was undergoing while policies were bei ...Read more
US Clean Water Supply Increasingly Critical to Future Expanding Population, Economy
May 13th, 2013 | Morris Beschloss | Although world history has always revolved around the universal solvent, water, it has never been recognized, in modern times, as a critical commodity in the same context as coal, oil, gas or the grea ...Read more
War Against Coal is Heating Up
May 11th, 2013 | Morris Beschloss | When former EPA head Lisa Jackson mounted the pulpit to call for the "bankruptcy of coal" in January, 2012, she released a firestorm of supporters agitating not only against the use of coal for power ...Read more
March Madness Record TV Advertising Revenues Emphasize Amateur Sports’ Amazing Popularity
May 8th, 2013 | Morris Beschloss | When taking a personal poll as to which post-season sport generated the most TV basketball advertising revenue (pro football, basketball, baseball, hockey), the March NCAA tournament wasn’t even men ...Read more
Oil/Natural Gas Bonanza Looking Unstoppable Despite Continued Environmental Opposition
May 7th, 2013 | Morris Beschloss | Based on reliable reports from knowledgeable observers, the oil/natural gas boom has continued to expand and will not be severely inhibited in the indeterminate future. This conclusion is based on the ...Read more
Will America's Lost Generation Face an Unpromising Economy?
May 6th, 2013 | Morris Beschloss | When sifting through the March unemployment rate, it quickly became apparent that the drop to 7.6% was totally misleading. Although that rate has been the traditional measuring stick which the U.S. La ...Read more
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