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Bottom Line: Reaganomics for Israel

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:39:31 -0500

Israel's election seems to have left open almost as many questions as it resolved. And yet, for investors, there was a strange clarity not present in the recent U.S. election -- in which both major parties essentially agreed on a $2 trillion plus bailout for the U.S. financial sector. In Israel Reaganomics was on the ballot.

The apology baseball needs

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:20:20 -0500

By GREGORY FOSSEDAL
Politics once again intruded on sports this week -- or maybe it was the other way around -- when Alex Rodriguez admitted he used steroids from 2001 to 2003.

Bottom line -- Venezuela: All politics is loco

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:42:14 -0500

By GREGORY FOSSEDAL
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reportedly exploded in an early February meeting with aides, barking insults and threats after hearing that privately commissioned polls show he is falling behind in a referendum he needs to continue running for future terms as president, according to a reliable source.

Geithnernomics and form H.4.1

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:34:20 -0500

By GREGORY FOSSEDAL
Washington's examination of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner focused mostly on his apparent inability to put form 1099 income in the right box on a tax return.

'It's the deflation, stupid'

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:37:18 -0500

By GREGORY FOSSEDAL
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Jeffrey Gundlach leans back in his chair, and rolls what seems to be a puff of smoke around in his mouth. Actually he's not smoking a cigar, but Gundlach -- the chief investment officer of Trust Company of the West, and one of the best money-management brains on the planet -- often seems to be savoring the words that are about to emerge.