Supply and Demand: The Basic Principle of Economics and the Stock Market The laws of supply and demand are well known and they lie at the core of the study of economics.
In its most basic form, the laws state that as prices increase, the quantity that sellers are willing to supply increases and the demand from buyers decreases.
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Buckle up and hold on -- a new round of quantitative easing is here and things could start getting very ugly in the financial world over the coming months.The truth is that many economists fear that an out of control Federal Reserve is "crossing the Rubicon" by announcing another wave of quantitative easing.Read more ›
There have been several notable economic downturns in recent history -- since the end of World War II. Classically speaking, the word "recession" is not synonymous with "downturn." A legitimate downturn could result from a slowdown in the rate of growth instead of an outright contraction in the gross domestic product.Read more ›
British economist John Maynard Keynes is one of the fathers of modern macroeconomic theory and widely considered to be one of the three most important economists of all time, along with Adam Smith and Karl Marx.His ideas shook up the dominant framework of classical economics and continue to influence both economic and fiscal policy for Western governments many decades later.Read more ›
Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989), was a busy man.A former actor and governor of California, Reagan negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles, exacted punishment against Libya for its involvement in a Berlin attack on American soldiers, and supported anti-Communist insurgents in Central America, Asia, and Africa.Read more ›
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