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“This is the season of the year when a host of high-priced economists unlimber their high-speed computers and uncork their precise predictions for the economy for the year ahead: the exact level of GNP [now GDP], the inflation rate, unemployment and ...

With 2013 already off to a strong start in the stock market, two Bermuda companies’ stocks are sure to get an added boost thanks to a recent recommendation by one of America’s largest investment banks. Goldman Sachs recently named a number of stocks...

In January of last year I laid out 12 unexpected events that were currently outside of the conventional consensus opinion that I felt had a reasonable chance of occurring (http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20120109/COLUMN05/701099993). Let’s go bac...

Every year I spend some time attempting to create a list of New Year’s resolutions to clarify my personal goals. The concept of New Year’s resolutions has a long history and some were actually financial in nature. The Babylonians, for example, made ...

With politicians in Washington still wrangling over possible solutions for averting the so-called “fiscal cliff” in the last few days before year-end, the major credit rating agencies may be loading their guns to take another shot at downgrading Amer...

They call economics the “dismal science”. The world often seems far more interested in the awful things going on rather than positive developments. That’s why we rubber-neck when we see car accidents and airplane landings never make the news. Now tha...