By the time you read this article, Greece may or may not still be in the Eurozone.  But whether Greece is in or out, the European sovereign debt crisis will almost certainly still be raging on.  The focus of investor worry has, in any event, moved westward to Spain.  The Spanish 10-year bond yield hit...Read More

In the new 2011 edition of his magnum opus Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned, Australian economics professor Steve Keen comes out guns blazing, blasting the “Panglossian view” of neoclassical economics that did so much to get us into the credit boom and bust that we are still struggling to recover from. Keen, unlike most...Read More

I originally penned this article for the August 2007 issue of the HS Dent Forecast–nearly three years ago.  My comments on deflation and consumer spending turned out to be right on the mark. The late Milton Friedman may be the most accomplished economist of his generation. Just as his predecessor John Maynard Keynes influenced every...Read More

This article originally appeared in the November 2008 HS Dent Forecast Newsletter. In the year and a half that has passed, the key insights remain: this recession is fundamentally different from all others of the post-WWII era. On Friday, October 24, 2008, the Financial Times reported that swap spreads turned negative. It would be easy...Read More