Podcast: Brexit Was Just The Beginning
Expect the UK to drop out of the headlines as it chooses new leaders and untangles itself from the EU. The big news going forward
Expect the UK to drop out of the headlines as it chooses new leaders and untangles itself from the EU. The big news going forward
Now the real fun begins. Last night Britons voted to leave the European Union, sending shock waves around the world — though not directly or
Gold analyst Michael Ballanger just posted an article noting how much things have changed — perhaps for the better — in the gold market. Here’s
It’s unclear what China was thinking when it was borrowed all those trillions to quadruple its capacity to make steel, cement and other basic industrial
Austrians went to the polls today to elect a new president. But for the first time in living memory the country’s two mainstream parties —
Somewhere back in the depths of time the world got the idea that easy money — that is, low interest rates and high levels of
The dollar is tanking lately. From a high of around 100 in December, the dollar index — which measures USD against a basket of foreign
Goldman, Morgan Stanley and IBM release numbers that look, well, depression-like. Housing starts plunge, gold and silver spike, China’s bond market seizes up, and Deutsche
So it seems that China’s economy, caught in the grip of a credit crisis just a few months ago, is all better. And so, by
For years now, the easiest way to finesse a debate over whether precious metals markets are manipulated has been to say, “well, if they’re not manipulated
Between the “Panama papers” and the DC Madam’s customer list, we might be witnessing the end of personal (and corporate and government) privacy. The result?
It’s the same story pretty much everywhere: Cities and states promised ridiculously generous (by today’s standards) pensions to teachers, cops and firefighters, failed to sufficiently
In that deservedly-famous 2006 CNBC debate between Peter Schiff and economist Arthur Laffer (in which the latter manages to be both arrogant and wrong about
It’s just about official: With corporate sales and profits shrinking and consumer spending flatlining, the US economy will grow hardly at all this year while
Europe is the birthplace of Western civilization and the source of most of the trends and bodies of knowledge that define modernity. The average European
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