Coming back to the roots of the European debt crisis, Greece was back on center stage. For all the time that Greece has been in the headlines, most analysts have speculated that a default is only a matter of time. The question is not will it happen...

In all of our assessments regarding the future of our economy, there is always a warning attached which goes something like this -- unless the European debt crisis explodes. We had some good news regarding the economy in the past several weeks, especially with regard to the all-important employment sector. Last week there were not as many economic releases to focus upon. This enabled the markets to refocus upon events in Europe and...

Last week we talked about the many varied predictions regarding the economy for 2012. It makes sense that the next question will then be--what factor will be most important with regard to which prediction turns out to be correct? We can answer that question in one word--employment. There are many factors...

The New Year is here. Of course, now we are inundated with predictions regarding what will happen in the coming year. If you read 100 predictions, you would get 100 different scenarios. For example, in October...