International Investing

I would post the entire essay if I could but you can read it here. This is one of the many good quotes. What would the Austrians consider this private enterprise increase in fiat currency?
Second, money supply does matter. We are seeing the broad money supply indicators (M-2 and M-3) rise not only in [...]

Bloomberg spells out the arb play:
The group says the Asia-Pacific region is losing as much as $47 billion of output per year from a lack of female participation in labor markets. And as much as $30 billion is lost because of gender gaps in education systems.

From Mises.org:
The absence of a central bank in Panama has created a completely market-driven money supply. Panama’s market has also chosen the US dollar as its de facto currency. The country must buy or obtain their dollars by producing or exporting real goods or services; it cannot create money out of [...]

Amazon.com rose as high as 27 percent on Wednesday, the largest gain in more than five years, validating bullish investors’ belief that the Internet retailer’s spending and its focus on boosting sales over profit would eventually pay off.

After watching Uranium move from $40 to over $110 in the past year Goldman and others are starting to dediciate resources to the volatile metal. Soon even more people will be in the game with the introduction of uranium futures.
It is not currently traded on an exchange and its price is hard to determine because [...]

No signs of this slowing anytime soon. This isn’t over:
Home resales fell to a 6.12 million annual rate, a 8.4% decrease from February’s revised 6.68 million annual pace, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. February’s rate was originally estimated at 6.69 million.

Was Citibank floating a trial balloon on the market?
Shares of Deutsche Bank AG, Germany’s biggest bank, rose the most in nine months on speculation that the bank may be acquired by Citigroup Inc.

We’ve previously posted about the right side of the Laffer Curve , but what about the left?
The Gartman Letter describes the booming economy in Estonia after the tax rate was lowered.:
The tax started at 26%, fell to 22% as the revenues taken in at the first rate were far above expectations so the authorities thought [...]