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Most of us have made promises to do something better. My home office is still cluttered after I promised as one of my 2011 New Year's resolutions to keep it tidy. It was clean for a while. Now it's a hot mess again. But this is the year, right? This ...

For most investors 2011 will be a year they may wish to forget. After a very promising start where stocks and commodities steadily gained in price, global risk markets were whipsawed over the summer months and into the fall as the deteriorating econo...

Gold will go through $2000 an ounce Gold is down in the dumps right now. This is partly due to the general Christmas wind-down in levels of general trading, as well as concerns about EFT which may or may not hold Gold. Nothing goes up in a straight ...

The question that I hear asked the most about the current financial crisis that we are living through is: “Why has a mortgage crisis and real estate crash in the US affected the entire global economy?” The answer to that question is that the vast cha...

Will the Grinch steal Christmas for investors this year? Investors looking for a robust Christmas season to juice retail sales and spur the languishing economy might need a telescope this year. Many economists agree that the ongoing political wrangl...

In the first of a four-part series on understanding the global financial crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, Bermuda Commercial Bank treasurer Dane Commissiong looks at the roots of the crisis. Part 1 The Illusion of Prosperity To even the casual obse...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) Many parents in the US are legitimately concerned about the prospects for their college-age children. After all, today’s students face three overlapping challenges: a long-term structural shift as the world’s effective labour su...

On October 14th, the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters were up early in Milan where student demonstrators broke into the local Goldman Sachs building before daybreak until police were eventually able to throw them out. Just down the street, a 36 foot ...