George Soros says Europe did too little, too late, and Nouriel Roubini says Europe needs ‘less austerity and more growth’ The euro fell sharply on the foreign exchanges today after the legendary speculator George Soros said that growing economic and political tensions could destroy the European Union. A hard-hitting attack by the billionaire financier on the ineptitude of European policymakers was backed by warnings from other economists on the first day of the World Economic Forum in Davos about the fragility of the single currency

Economic growth is rising again in the US, while unemployment is down – signs that the US economy is bouncing back from the recession of 2008-2009. But are you feeling its effects yet?

The stress tests were conducted to determine how well, if at all, the top 19 banks in the USA could withstand further or future economic hardship. When the tests were completed, regulators within the Treasury and inside the Federal Reserve began bickering with each other as to whether or not the test results should be [...]

Fibonacci Numbers You may have heard the terms “Fibonacci” and “Fibonacci Numbers” — what do they mean and how are they incorporated into trading indicators?  First things first, what (more specifically, who) is Fibonacci?  Leonardo Pisano (a.k.a. Fibonacci) was a 12th-century, Italian mathematician that developed a sequence of numbers where each successive number is the [...]