The economic warning signs of a major slowdown in growth are appearing now on a global perspective from China and Japan to North American and Europe.
No matter who is elected in November, the next eight years will try men’s souls and the outcome for our country could be glory or destruction.
After eight years of the largest budget deficits in history, the economy is still dead in the water, with GDP barely growing.
We've all heard the story of how the emperor Nero fiddled as Rome burned. Today, we use it an as analogy, whenever fitting, to show the callousness of either a person or entity when they are obviously engaged in wreaking havoc or utter devastation; all while caring none-the-least. Nobody seems to fit that bill today…
With massive stimulus inflating stocks and bonds, the tactical allocation team at Norway’s largest bank has opened a bet on volatility for the first time.
We have forensically picked apart Deutsche Bank in a way that no other entity ever has, likely including Deutsche Bank itself. While we may not know all of its secrets, we likely now know more than almost everybody else.
We see increasingly desperate measures to keep the global credit ponzi scheme from its inevitable conclusion.
“I can track the real-world inflation of the Burrito Index with great accuracy: the cost of a regular burrito from our local taco truck has gone up from $2.50 in 2001 to $5 in 2010 to $6.50 in 2016. That’s a $160% increase since 2001;"
“We learned in 2008 how tightly linked the financial systems of the world are. When Lehman went under it spread all around the world
The great “science” of economics once discovered an empirical relationship between GDP and unemployment that has been dubbed Okun’s Law. It simply states that the unemployment rate rises as GDP con...
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Perhaps not the most logical place in the United States to have an extensive meeting of the different regional branches of the Federal Reserve, but nobody seems to be willing to touch...
Policy makers are flooding financial markets with liquidity to meet their price-stability mandate
Kelly Evans, CNBC, Released on 9/2/15 John Mauldin is a renowned financial expert, a New York Times best-selling author, a pioneering online commentator, a
The fundamental reason why the establishment wants to abolish cash is as a necessary precursor to the imposition of negative interest rates.
Precious Metals (Silver breaks its 50DMA) ...are in demand as safe-haven flows surge as US macro data's delusions of grandeur dissolve...
The ultimate Catch 22 is that the flatness of the yield curve makes any fantasy of a Fed rate hike all too real for a dead breed the world once knew as ‘bond market vigilantes.’
Negative interest rates are spreading like a virus. “NIRP,” as economists call a negative interest rate policy, is a desperation move—but the only move those central banks have.
Peter Schiff discusses the Markets, Depression, the Dollar and why he's still bullish on Gold
Chinese investors are seeking prospects for investment following the institution of the country's latest five-year plan, Sergey Kashuba of Russia's Union of Gold Producers told Russian newspaper Izvestiya.