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The one thing we can be certain about is this: Inflation volatility has a painful effect on lower income households, those on fixed incomes, those with higher ratios of tuition, transportation, or medical costs ...

Americans spend more at bars and restaurants than at grocery stores. The list of retail bankruptcies continues to grow in 2017.  The list includes J.C. Penney, Sears, RadioShack, and just recently Payless.

Single-Family Starts Collapse In The Midwest. Starts decline in both single- and multi-family-units...

The Constitution doesn’t permit the feds to steal your money. But steal, the feds do.

Currently, Solar Power accounts for 0.6% of our total energy consumption, while Wind Power provides 2.1%. If we add up Wind, Solar and Geo-thermal together, they still account for less than 3% of the total U.S. energy consumption.

An 'easily operated' machine linked to a smartphone could be ready within five years

Making things worse, many people who need mental health care can't get it, experts say

Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced plans Monday to expand the number of civilians involved in armed militias as tensions in the crisis-wracked South American nation continued to rise.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Trump administration's timetable for tax reform is set to falter following setbacks in negotiations with Congress over healthcare, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

The International Monetary Fund will not take part in a bailout program for Greece if it deems the country's debt is unsustainable, the international lender's chief Christine Lagarde said in an interview published on Tuesday.

Warnings of Washington’s trade protectionism by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde and others are “rubbish,” according to US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.

French bond yields widened their gap against German bunds on Tuesday morning as opinion polls showed increased uncertainty regarding who will become the next president of France.

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said she will seek an early election on June 8, in an unexpected gamble aimed at strengthening her hand going into talks on leaving the European Union.

European shares fell & the dollar dipped against the yen on Tuesday as tensions over North Korea & the coming weekend's knife-edge presidential election in France kept investors nervous.

TREASURY SEC MNUCHIN AGREES WITH TRUMP THAT THE USA NEEDS A LOWER DOLLAR!

Stock prices just keep on falling, and many analysts are now wondering if a full-blown stock market crash has begun. 

Indians are facing a major shortage of cash, with as many as 90% of ATMs in some regions of the country running completely out of currency. The cash crisis stems from a policy of demonetization the Indian government launched over five months ago.
On Nov. 8, the Indian government declared that 1,000 and 500 rupee notes would no longer be valid. They gave the public just four hours notice. The 1,000 and 500 rupee notes made up 86 % of the currency in circulation in the country. With a single pronouncement, the Indian government made virtually all of the cash in India valueless.

Two 17-year-old high school students allegedly raked in nearly $60,000 selling fake gold bars on Craigslist, underscoring the importance of buying gold and silver from a reputable dealer.

The income tax is enshrined into law an idea that stands in total contradiction to the driving force behind the American Revolution and the whole idea of freedom itself. We desperately need a serious national movement to get rid of it – not reform it, not replace it, no flatten it or refocus its sting from this group to that. It just needs to go.  

The debacle of healthcare repeal and declaring tax cuts dependent on its passage dampened expectations and markets responded in a downward tilt.