by BILL BONNER BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – We went to dinner last night at a little neighborhood restaurant in Palermo Soho. It was already crowded when we arrived after 9 p.m., with a warm buzz of conversation. But scarcely had we been there 10 minutes when the diners fell silent. A woman at the table next … Read more
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Disney’s Black Panther is in theaters right now, breaking all kinds of box office records and wowing audiences. The film features a fictional, highly-advanced African country known as Wakanda, whose vast wealth and prosperity are derived almost exclusively from the mining of a rare, fantastical metal called vibranium. In its … Read more
Turning Hard Times Into Good Times, Released on 2/28/18 Alasdair Macleod speaks to questions about when he thinks the next credit crisis will occur and the logic behind his view. Alasdair Macleod is head of research for GoldMoney. He also runs FinanceAndEconomics.org, a website dedicated to sound money and demystifying finance and economics. He has a … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Besides that, rents are in free-fall in Chicago, decline in Seattle, plunge here, soar there, city by city. The peculiar phenomenon that had started last November is getting more and more peculiar. The momentum of median asking rents across the US has split in two: On a national average, one-bedroom rents … Read more
by howmuch Gas is one of the most import commodities in the United States. We’re a large, spread out country and we’re always on the go. That means we need cars and trucks to quickly take us to our destination. The problem is, gas isn’t cheap. If you want to save on gas prices, look … Read more
Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog, First of all, sorry for the lack of posts lately. Long story, but rest assured, I am back on track and the old ‘tourist regular postings have resumed. Next up, today I will write about Canadian real estate. I know, many of you find that about … Read more
By Michael SnyderIf the U.S. economy is in good shape, then why has economic growth been so anemic for more than a decade? It has been 12 long years since the economy grew by at least 3 percent, and for most of that time my website has been one of the leading voices chronicling America’s long-term economic … Read more