The crisis building is all about how will the governments keep funding their debts?
Ray Dalio is shorting anything Italian, & given Italy's size & hence importance to the EU, his bets are effectively bets against Brussels.
Congressional Republicans have approved a measure that would have courts, rather than regulators, oversee megabank bankruptcies. It is now up to the Trump administration to decide if it wants to set the stage for a repeat of the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008.
Harvey also says that dealer silver inventory is getting close to record lows again. Here's the latest...
Oct. 19, 1987, was one of the worst days in stock market history. Thirty years later, it would be comforting to believe it couldn’t happen again.
Numerous measures of debt, including auto-loan debt, student-loan debt, real-estate debt at commercial banks (though not overall), consumer debt, margin debt & total debt, have soared to all-time highs
Once an avid reader of Paul Krugman’s New York Times twice-weekly columns, I admit to rarely even glancing at his work now, since I know that anything he writes is going to have the theme of “Trump evil, Democrats good” each time, and it doesn’t take long to get o
Murray: My Honest-Money Friend and Ally | Ron Paul
It’s been almost two decades since economist Paul McCulley coined the phrase "Minsky Moment" to describe Russia’s financial crisis.
Optimism about the economy is based on misconceptions.
Another day, another threat by North Korea to stage an "unimaginable" strike on the U.S. amid tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs.
Here's a chart of our fabulous always-higher GDP, adjusted for another bogus metric, official inflation. The theme this week is The Rot Within.
As traders prepare to underwrite $5 billion of inflation-linked Treasuries on Thursday, they’re as confident as ever that the Federal Reserve’s predicted inflation rebound won’t…
So much for the hurricane distortions of the US labor market...
Russia and China see a new way to completely control their financial systems.
Gold futures are trading higher on Thursday and on track to snap a three-session skid as political drama in the eurozone rattles investor confidence, providing the haven asset a path to climb.
U.S. stock benchmarks on Thursday slump after posting a trio of all-time highs and closing above the psychologically important level of 23,000 for the Dow. Modest losses are driven by a slump in technology and financials shares.
* MSCI world index drops off latest high as Spain weighs onEurope China Q3 GDP growth slows slightly to 6.8 pct vs 6.9 pctin Q2* Dollar rebounds mo
The gold mining industry was already fragile, and now mining costs are surging. Here's what it means...
The confidence boost in the UK can be linked to an increase in gold exports, which could in turn be bad for confidence. Here's why...