Paul Krugman hardest hit.

UNEXPECTEDLY! Rank-and-File Workers Get Bigger Raises. Wages for rank-and-file workers are rising at the quickest pace in more than a decade, even faster than for bosses, a sign that the labor market has tightened sufficiently to convey bigger increases to lower-paid …

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Is Social Media the New Tobacco?

by Charles Hugh-Smith If we set out to design a highly addictive platform that optimized the most toxic, destructive aspects of human nature, we’d eventually come up with social media. Social problems arise when initially harmless addictions explode in popularity, …

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2020: The Year Of The Oil Bankruptcies

By Alex Kimani A bankruptcy boom has hit the oil and gas industry, and it’s just getting started. Investors have lost their appetite for shale, and energy debt has become among the least desirable in the market. The industry has …

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AG Barr Compares Kevin Spacy Kill List To Clintons

3 Kevin Spacey accusers have mysteriously died including one that had a pending court date. If my calculations are correct… that makes Kevin Spacey 1/1024th Hillary Clinton https://twitter.com/AGWillliamBarr/status/1210020008644030464?s=19, Norwegian ex royal Ari Behn who accused Kevin Spacey of groping has …

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Can The Fed Help Turn The Economy Around?

by upfina We have already reviewed the leading economic index in a previous article. The chart below brings new context by showing its historical yearly growth rate and the Fed funds rate. Will history repeat itself? Will the #Fed's three rate cuts …

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Market And Investing Wisdoms For 2020

by Lance Roberts Last week, I posted our 2020 Outlook, which focused on the futility of trying to predict the future and the understanding of the current market risks headed into the next decade: “The reality is that we can’t control outcomes. The most …

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