In the News:
The Wall Street Journal

On the front page of the Money & investing section of The Wall Street Journal, Chief Economist Joseph Brusuelas comments on the decline in appetite for risky US debt.
 
"  'These countries will face a political and economic reckoning, when their own citizens will ask why they're sending cash to the Americans so it can be lost in risky derivative instruments,' says Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at Merk Investments, an investment-advisory firm specializing in currencies. 'Those are fair questions.' "