BRIC: An economic overview

The BRIC group is becoming a world superpower in terms of international trade. Five countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - are leading the world in growth, each with its own unique "core competencies" for marking of money. We will break down each BRIC country, what they do and their impact on the future.

Brazil - Brazil leader in the utility improved efficiency and is one of the few countries with a real plan to create its own energy in sufficient quantity to meet its needs. The fields of sugarcane to power ethanol excellent infrastructure, and investment has proven to help improve the Brazilian economy with a comparative advantage in the production of inexpensively. It is easy to run a trade surplus when you do not import oil!

Russia - probably the link in the BRIC group, Russia has an advantage in the production of energy from its oil fields. Corruption creates a very dangerous risk that investors have a price on the market. Equities are cheap here, and for good reason - they could simply get stolen from you.

India - India is a very balanced party of the BRIC group, with its power from a hand of cheap labour in the service industries. Unfortunately, the India currently has a terrible dependency ratio, and recent upticks in wealth are not registered to the aged, the poor citizens.

China - China leads the world in growth, but concerns about a rampant housing market began to cool expectations of investors in the short term. A net exporter, most analysts expect that China will be soon turn consumptuous emerges from its consumer economy. However, its power can be leveraged with its undervalued Renminbi.

South Africa - one of the most interesting of all countries is South Africa. Especially a "border", the South African economy has an excellent opportunity to raise his uncultivated population, rural growth. One of the least developed countries continents (Africa) best is not hurt a bit!

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Passive income: dividend Stocks still make sense

While the reports of price-earnings to Wall Street start to get a little ridiculous, high-dividend stocks have not yet lost their lustre. Institutional investors, empowered by record low cost of borrowing are alignment every imaginable society. Until PSE stay within 25 years, the cost of Portage is offered by benefits companies.

High dividend companies have an advantage on non-income stocks in what they have a buffer against rising interest rates: their dividends. When companies which pay no dividends are sure to decline as institutions relax their carry trade long-term borrowings against corporate profits, dividend payers know seem attractive as long as they are not returning too much money.

Philip Morris International (PM) is one of these companies appears to be solid against even higher costs of borrowing. The company is not a price too far in the future with a PE of 16, while yield dividend right around 4% per year gives plenty of room to the company. Unlike bonds, dividend usually stocks not sour steps on rising borrowing costs, since any recovery usually accompany stimulates the bottomline profit. With links, the bottomline is not as important to the upside.

As always, the passive gains are the way to go. Consider the establishment of a drip to make routine purchases of blue chip equities. While high-dividend companies are not as "high-dividend" that they were, they have a lot of downside protection makes them attractive in any environment. Load!

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Went to tax changes resulted in the recession

We've covered a number of different changes to the US tax code on this blog over the past years, most of which will soon come to an end. While tax - refundable credits and step - will still be around, they do not provide the thrust of stimulant of quarter 1-2 that they used to make.

One of the greatest changes will be the end of the residential tax of $7500 credit. New buyers who have purchased a house in 2008 received a loan of $7500 tax credit, which must be repaid with 15 consecutive payments of $500 to the IRS after a 2-year grace period. This 2-year grace period is over from this year.

Most people did not see the change, though, since that year, the tax code was developed in buffer in part by tax credit making work pay that provided workers with $400 in the form of a repayable refund or $800 for working married couples. This tax credit, which was in effect in 2010, will be completed in 2011, as he will be replaced by a hardly perceptible 2% reduction in employee side FICA tax.

Those who make more than $40,000 jointly filing will always see the same benefit, but to realize that, given that the benefit comes and time pieces, it is more likely to be passed to a single credit for $400-800.

Reimbursement of tax $7500 buyer credit is not a bad thing. On the one hand, it will boost the coffers of the Government for the next 15 years. Second, it'll help temporarily suck liquidity from the economy and also put an end to the momentum of February-April stimulating but temporary that we have been witnesses.

We are back to normal,? Non. There is still much recovery future needs. However, it is good to see that, instead of any mass revision of the tax system, we obtain the best thing: standardization. We know what to expect in the future, and be able to make projections into the future is never bad for any economy recovery.

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The US debt ceiling: that Congress should be

In the coming days, weeks and months, we are convinced that to hear much about the debt of the U.S. Government on the ceiling, but if you do not know what it is, how it works and why it is importantthen you know perhaps why the debt ceiling is so important.

We will break the ceiling of the U.S. debt in two main pieces: what and why we have a debt ceiling.

The U.S. debt limit is a number which is decided by the Congress to be the more money that the United States can borrow. For all purposes, the debt ceiling is a political thing, as the Government of the United States can raise the ceiling of the debt at any time, making it especially not relevant.

U.S. debt ceiling has been raised many times in the past, and raise this often has political consequences. The previous agreement to raise the debt ceiling was agreed to only after politicians figured how long it would take to reach the next ceiling and how it might play in their favour political.

At least in one sense, the debt ceiling is an excellent idea. With a limit on the total federal debt, the United States imposes a requirement on itself to check budgets, look at finance and find ways to save money each time in a while.

This year, the US Government is certain to have some conflicts surrounding the U.S. debt limit farming. Republicans have suggested that they will not raise the debt ceiling, unless the vote to do so is bound to an agreement to reduce the budget deficit and spending. Democrats have agreed to such a policy, but they said that they do not want to make a game of politicians, as did Bill shutdown Government weeks earlier.

Apparently, Republicans said the Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner they would raise the debt ceiling, even though some worry that Republican Tea Party may be less likely to vote for a hike in the debt ceiling without cutting some serious expenditure.

What do you think we should do?

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Lending Club: not more Questions

We have this covered recently in a post about the Club ready, ready in hand to hand, and how they are two great ways to have fun and earn money at the same time. Unfortunately, a recent change to ready P2P scene means that investors may not get as much information of borrowers as they did previously.

Under the new rules that start…uh, a few days ago LendingClub now allow its users to ask questions which it has already approved in advance. On his blog (it reminds me of problem… of the Netflix blog) the company says:

"Starting tomorrow, investors will be able to ask questions from a predefined set that was created based on the newspapers most frequently asked in the past 2 years and reviewed and edited by our team of compliance." "As an investor, feel free to submit additional questions that you would like to see added to the list of feedback@lendingclub.com."

Before this block of text is a blurb on privacy, but what you really need to know the Club loan decision and how it affects investors are right it - ready Club does not want you to take informed decisions about your money.

Although there are few things as important as the safety, security and personal identity protection - especially when it comes to things like borrow money - that there should be concern about the quality of investment that is located on the site in the future.

You see, P2P lending was built on the idea that he would not be like a bank. Isntead, investors would be allowed to correspond directly to the borrowers and borrowers would be able to make their application why they should have access to money from investors. It was a good idea. some borrowers posted until their monthly budget, others had pictures of marriage or other personal elements that give the credibility of the list of exhibits - and investors liked it!

But now that investors may only apply to that LendingClub (in fact investors can only ask that Subscriber, WebBank) wants their ask…uh? This is a pity that ready Club had to change the rules to make it more difficult for lenders select potential borrowers. I'm starting to think they start you a mass exodus quickly enough.

Attention all scammers! Attention! Club ready now you will display an announcement asking to borrow money and will limit the ability of lenders to test your legitimacy. How is - for awareness of these rules have created?

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