Hungarian-American financier George Soros and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker above the caption “You have a right to know what Brussels is preparing to do!”, in Budapest, Hungary. Battle lines are drawn between anti-EU populist forces and traditional parties at …
by Michael Snyder After two very long years, the Mueller report is finally going to be released, and it could potentially be the spark that unleashes chaos all over the country. Initially, some in the mainstream media had speculated that …
While contagion is definitely contained, the Eurozone “is not sufficiently armed to face a new economic or financial crisis.” French banks are heavily exposed to Italy. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. “Don’t underestimate the impact of …
By John Mauldin It was my first encounter with what I thought was economic insanity. More than 10 years ago, I came across the ideas of economist Bill Mitchell of the University of Newcastle in New South Wales. He was teaching what …
by Michael Snyder One day it will happen. Scientists assure us that one day the absolutely massive Yellowstone supervolcano will once again experience a Category 8 eruption, and if it happened today it would “literally tear the guts out …
I love My Freedom reports, It’s all over, folks. Jussie Smollett has lawyered up. After news spread that Chicago police were treating his report of a hate crime as a hoax, he has retained the council of notorious high-profile defense …
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold is the next global currency of choice, a new catalyst will drive silver prices higher in 2019, and …
Gab.com, known as the free speech alternative to Twitter, is creating a browser plugin to add a comment section to every website on the Internet. Andrew Torba, who founded and runs Gab has shared a number of screenshots showing the …
by Michael Snyder This just shows what can happen when you let crazy people run a state for several decades. In the 1960s and 1970s, the possibility of moving to the west coast was “the California dream” for millions of …
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors This Valentine’s Day might best be remembered for two things in particular. One, for the first time in 153 years, candy lovers won’t be able to pick up a box of Sweethearts, those …
Fox Business, Released on 2/7/19 Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm …
via marketwatch: An escalating trade war, a hard landing in China, and Brexit could prompt a global recession U.S. investors are once again paying attention to the dark clouds gathering over the global economy, with reason to fear that the next …
by Kimble Charting Tech stocks have come charging back from the late December stock market lows. The 5-week rally on the NASDAQ 100 (NASDAQ: QQQ) has the look of a “V” shaped bottom and has been very lucrative for those that have been a …
Kevin Smith, CEO of U.S. hedge fund Crescat Capital, is putting Canadian banks in the same camp as those in China and Australia: worthy of a short. He outlines the key factors and why the global growth slowdown makes this …
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: 2019 could be gold’s year, silver’s versatility could boost prices in 2019, and long gold is Goldman’s favorite commodity …
via Marketwatch: ‘Where will the next shock come from? Could changes in the global financial system — including those aimed at building bank resilience — be sowing the seeds of the next crisis?’ That’s the question posed by MIT Sloan …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the recent advice provided by Michael Wilson, the Chief Equity Strategist at Morgan Stanley. According to Wilson, people need to get out of stocks now! Their reasoning is that …
by Michael Snyder The left has been salivating over the prospect of voting Donald Trump out of office in 2020, but now something has happened that could change everything. On Sunday, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced that he is “seriously considering …
via Marketwatch: The slowdown in global growth bears strong resemblance to a 2015-16 episode that was driven in large part by softness in China. This time around, China’s problems could prove even more damaging, warned economists at Oxford Economics. “The …
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Last year was admittedly a tough one for emerging markets. A number of currencies were under considerable pressure, with some of them falling to record or near-record lows against the strong U.S. dollar. …
By Rodney Johnson I’ve said for years that Tesla, the electric car company, had its share of problems. Most recently I wrote about them here, here, and here. They’ve been selling “cool.” That may have worked for a little while, but now Tesla’s …
Overload: A City That Opened Its Doors To Asylum Seekers Has Come To Regret It. Maine’s largest city, population about 67,000, is now struggling with an influx of asylum seekers, to the point where a local official is alerting …
by Daisy Luther Yet another recall has hit the shelves of a store near you. This time, it’s something really surprising. It’s fresh fruit. The FDA has announced that peaches, nectarines, and plums sold in more than a dozen states could …
via @joefriday_714: This week is BIG and could set the tone for the Mkts going forward for the next month or so. There’s the Co. earnings below; various Econ. Data; FOMC; China trade talks, & $40B QT. A perfect cocktail for …
by FS Jim Puplava recently spoke with financial analyst and commentator A. Gary Shilling on FS Insider. Shilling has a long history with Wall Street—he was fired from Merrill-Lynch for accurately calling the 1969-1970 recession, noting how important it is to …
Photo by Herval | CC BY | Photoshopped from original From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: 3 reasons why gold market could run with the bulls, …
by Daisy Luther As I’ve written before, the government shutdown is a perfect demonstration of our politicians participating in partisan showmanship, with poor people as the victims of their theater. As individual states desperately attempt to take care of the people …
by Jesse “In particular, over a protracted period of good times, capitalist economies tend to move from a financial structure dominated by hedge finance units to a structure in which there is large weight to units engaged in speculative and …
via ocregister: Tenants getting federal rent subsidies have yet to be affected by the partial government shutdown, now in its fourth week. But big problems could arise for those renters and their landlords should the shutdown last until March. Local housing …
DNC-MSM house organ Columbia Journalism Reviewreports: Writing in CJR, the project’s co-founders argue that America needs “a dramatically new approach at the local level—grounded less in the traditional commercial model and more on a reawakened spirit of public service among reporters.” …