Barack Obama is secretly negotiating a global economic treaty which would destroy thousands of American businesses and millions of good paying American jobs.
Peter Schiff, CEO and chief global strategist at Euro Pacific Capital, started the morning at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas making some serious waves.
Today marks the five year anniversary of the Flash Crash, the day in 2010 when the US stock market fell drastically in a matter of minutes then recovered most of the losses.
It's ironic to feel lonely on an island of 4 million people, but it seemed I spent my life staring at screens: laptop, cell phone, iPad -- hell, even the taxis and elevators had televisions in them. I felt stressed, uninspired, and disconnected.
The phrase, "more bang for the buck," is usually associated with the Vietnam War. It is associated with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's focus on statistics: military expenditures vs. enemy deaths.
If U.S. economic growth falls any lower, we are officially going to be in recession territory. On Wednesday, we learned that U.S. GDP grew at a 0.2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2015. That was much lower than all of the "experts"
As I review the financials of one of the largest shale producers in the United States, Whiting Petroleum (WLL), I can't help but notice the parallels to the .COM era of 1999 which, to some extent, has already returned to the technology and biotech
SHTF has been closely following the recent calls from Wall Street to ban cash and implement a system that would force everyone to operate on the grid, even as interest rates have hit negative and customers are actually charged for keeping money in th
The Fed's FOMC meeting over. The Fed has removed the word "patient" from its verbiage concerning future rate hikes, so traders will have to find some other minutia to obsess over.
A Z Pizza franchise in Seattle employing 12 people has announced that it will close in August due to financial pressure caused by Seattle's $15 per hour minimum wage hike.
As regular readers are no doubt aware, a long-running theme here has been the vicious deflationary feedback loop inadvertently created by DM central bank policy.
As regular readers are no doubt aware, a long-running theme here has been the vicious deflationary feedback loop inadvertently created by DM central bank policy.
Stunned... Despite soaring stock prices and low gas prices, Consumer Confidence tumbled to 95.2 (against expectations of a jump to 102.2) to its lowest sicne 2014.
In the first 3 months of 2015, McDonalds saw a 2.3% decrease in sales and a 28% drop in operating revenue, continuing a trend of loss that the company has been experiencing for years.