Just like the Dutch Tulip Bulb bubble, internet stock bubble, and the mid-2000’s financial asset bubble, the current stock market is no longer a price-discovery mechanism.
Economists wondered whether the historically low inflation rates seen in the Eurozone & Japan were due to factors beyond central banks
...cautious, especially given that in the latest few months of data, there’s nothing there to suggest that the economy is booming
“We have a negative output gap, we have inflation just at zero -- slightly above zero -- and we have this overvalued Swiss franc,”
Investment banking is another job on a growing list of high-paid work that is being automated, along with legal services & medicine.
Laying off employees in its operations and technology division, part of the second-largest U.S. bank's plan to cut costs.
All those headlines about higher interest rates? So far, it hasn’t meant much for your savings account.
The European Central Bank has switched 500 million euros worth of its U.S. dollar reserves to yuan, reflecting the increased use of the Chinese currency & Beijing's importance as one of the euro area's largest trading partners, it said on Tuesday.
When you don't have enough chips to even make the next ante, you might as well go ALL IN:
And the Unified Conspiracy Theory of Everything...
The Fed has just stunned markets, hiking rates another 25 basis points in the face of horrific economic data. Gold and silver prices respond...
Is the Parabolic Move in Cryptos Signalling the Beginning of THE END Has Arrived?
In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, Tenth Amendment Center national communications director Mike Maharrey talks about state action to undermine the Federal Reserve and the government's monopoly on money.
So “global growth” is as it was in 2014, a phantom of positive momentum in a world otherwise devoid of it.
The latest numbers from the Treasury should have us all troubled. Lee Adler builds analysis on why the debt ceiling is about to blow up...
Economic collapse is a process, not an event. The data points right now show an economy that is in severe deterioration, not recovery...
The amount of negative-yielding government debt has grown by around $900 billion over the past few months.
The yield curve is flattening like a pancake. Tightening cycles tend to do that. Furthermore, the effective float of 10-year and longer U.S. notes and bonds is relatively small and greatly distorts the bond market signal....
Gold is on the way up, says Tom Beck, editor of Portfolio Wealth Global. Those two major events will determine how precious metals will perform going forward:
“Even the intelligent investor is likely to need considerable willpower to keep from following the crowd.“