These cycles, that oscillate around the 2% productivity trendline are called debt cycles. They’re comprised of leveragings
Economic uncertainty is at record highs but market uncertainty nears record lows...
By David Stockman. Posted On Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
The currency of Washington’s power politics is campaign money. Much of that campaign money flows from Wall Street’s biggest banks: its lobbyists, its Political Action Committees, its employees and their spouses.
Europe is primed for a breakup because EU leadership has gone too far in restricting member rights. Leaders in Brussels see Europe as a single country to be managing rather than specialized regions, States, and/or countries with the own specific political, social, and economic cultures. T
With 43 million Americans relying on food stamps, the winners are large corporations.
Alasdair Macleod Takes A Trip Down the Rabbit Hole...
Trump claimed that Yellen was keeping interest rates artificially low in order to pump up the stock market and help elect Hillary Clinton.
Venezuela began to issue new bank notes to replace the 100-bolívar bill, made virtually worthless by hyperinflation.
Over the past 29 months, the decline in Reserves took place at a rate of about $42 billion dollars a month. At this rate, by the end of 2017 International Reserves will likely decline by another $504 billion dollars, to $10.31 Trillion
It's the Fed's fault. Over the past several years, the Federal Reserve has forced interest rates lower in an all-out assault on "cash." The theory was
According to Federal Reserve data, the average lifespan of a $100 bill has fallen by more than 30% over the last several years:
Change of sentiment among large-scale gold price futures speculators following eight straight weeks of increasing bearishness.
While fund manager Adrian Day believes investors should tread cautiously in the market right now, he is upbeat on some gold stocks.
For those who remember, the era of stagflation in the 1970s was fairly traumatic; there were two surges of stagflation, one in 1973-1975, and the second in 1978-1981.It appears that stagflation was ca
The universal basic income is being considered as a partial or complete replacement to the current means-tested system of welfare.
The radical notion that governments should hand out free money to everyone - is slowly but surely gaining ground in Europe.
Donald Trump says he will preserve the program, yet the trust funds supporting it will be depleted by 2034, making any solution difficult.
Analyst Jack Chan charts the latest moves in the gold and silver markets, and notes the metals are currently showing both short term AND long term Buy Signals:
Revelations have been piling up since the 2008 financial crisis. Major U.S. and international banks cheat their customers and rig markets.