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Views on the economy by Jim Mosquera

Recently I was interviewed by Shoestring Venture on my book Escaping Oz: Protecting your wealth during the financial crisis. I was asked to comment...

How MF Global's bankruptcy affected me

I write many words in The Sentinel Financial Report (TSFR) about the social cycle model and its components. One of the components is the loss of...

Can the Fed really help?

Modern economic and monetary policy relies on what the book Escaping Oz termed, the Wizards. We have Wizards at the Federal Reserve and Wizards in...

Authority

Part of our methodology at The Sentinel inmaking forecasts is to use our social cycle model to anticipate changes in human behavior. Since human...

U.S. credit downgrade and S&P

Standard & Poor's (S&P), a rating agency, rocked the market and the U.S. Government last week when they lowered their rating on U.S....

Debt ceiling deal

Usually when someone says they are reducing something we tend to imagine that there is less of that "something" than the original amount....

Debt ceiling talks go down to the wire

The great debt ceiling debate goes on in Washington. In one corner you have Obama and the Democrats proposing tax increases and budget cuts. On the...