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Flagging U.S. restaurant sales could be a harbinger for broader economic peril.
According to one analyst, not even the Pokemon Go craze can save the restaurant industry.
Eight years after the subprime crisis, news of a startup bringing institutional real-estate exposure to individual investors may be met with some skepticism.
Following last month's surprising drop in new home sales, which tumbled the most in 8 months alongside sharp downward revisions to the historical data, coupled with a plunge in the median price many expressed concern that the housing recovery....
Despite its supposed seasonal adjustment, Case-Shiller home price growth in May tumbled for the 3rd year in a row (in fact, with revisions, the 0.23% drop since March is the biggest drop since June 2014).
Market Analyst Forecast: "In The Next Week Or Two We Should See A Significant Move To The Downside"
In recent years we've seen global debts soar to heights never before seen in human history
In recent years we've seen global debts soar to heights never before seen in human history
In the US, 94 million people have "dropped out of the workforce," and the unemployment situation is often worse in Europe. The ruling systems of the West have made these people superfluous. If you're one of them, I'm sorry. It's happening t
Overcoming Our Inordinate Fear of Inflation … Why do we care so much about preventing inflation? When I put this query to baby boomers, they tell me that if I had lived through the inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s, I would understand.
Now it's $13 trillion.
The mind-numbing Case-Shiller regional charts below are presented without too much comment. As MHanson.com's Mark Hanson adds, the visual says it all.
On the surface, things seem pretty quiet in mid-July 2016. The biggest news stories are about the speculation surrounding Donald Trump's choice of running mate, the stock market in the U.S. keeps setting new all-time record highs, and the media se
We the undersigned urge you, the presumptive Republican nominee for President, to support a rebirth of free-market capitalism in the U.S. You have said repeatedly that you want to make American great again.
While we are waiting it might be wondered, however, whether nearly two decades of central bank financial repression have not merely destroyed honest price discovery on Wall Street. Perhaps it has actually extinguished brain function entirely among th
One conundrum stumping investors in recent months has been how, with investors pulling money out of equity funds...
When Montpelier decided to rip up a pothole-riddled asphalt road and replace it with gravel in 2009, it didn't see itself at the forefront of a growing trend in public works. It was simply responding to a citizen complaint.
Ben Bernanke is one of the most dangerous men walking the planet. In this age of central bank domination of economic life, he is surely the pied piper of monetary ruin.
Government Holds the Promise of Faster Growth … One of the U.S.'s biggest economic challenges is the slump in productivity. After climbing steadily for many decades, productivity has slowed dramatically since 2011: Productivity is the key to lo
"Americans Are Not Prepared For A Full Blown, Prolonged, Nightmarish Depression"
Nearly everywhere on the planet, the giant financial bubbles created by the central banks during the last two decades are fracturing. The latest examples are the crashing bank stocks in Italy and elsewhere in Europe and the sudden trading suspensions
Where the Fed Will Be When the Next Downturn Comes … The easy-money policy may bump inflation over 3% in the next few years, setting up interest-rate increases. -WSJ
Uber, Lyft, Postmates and other digital platforms aren't transforming the workforce as much as we might think.
Very rarely do people think about what price means.
"There's too much of everything…" The debt, the currency collapse, the global economy, and the institutions we've all taken for granted. All of it is headed for prolonged collapse, and revolution.
As we indicated last January, the weekly rail traffic report published by the Association of American Railroads ("AAR") can provide a reasonable snapshot of US economic performance almost in real time by looking at diverse categories of transport
We've all heard of the term "lying with statistics," and boy does the mainstream media get high honors for that practice. But today Ron Paul is going to cover "lying with government statistics". He discusses the myths that surround GDP, the misleadin
Do we really expect that this subprime government bond bubble, whose rate of expansion is accelerating, can continue to get bigger and bigger without consequence forever?
Major financial storms are coming, and they may cause a great deal of damage. There is every indication that what has now starting in Europe could end up on the dollar's doorstep, and upend the whole house of cards.