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High above the Metro Gold Line tracks, a string of lean-tos that Lee Brown calls his "three-bedroom condominium" is tethered to a hilltop fence in Elysian Park.
The Dow Peaked At 14,000 Before The Last Stock Market Crash, And Now Dow 24,000 Is Here
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a research arm of the US intelligence community is warning that if China is successful in developing superior Artificial Intelligence the balance of economic and military power will be shifted.
The Conference Board's survey of Americans' Consumer Confidence surged to its highest since November 2000 in November, with both current and furture expectations spiking.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, there's been a growing number of ridiculous, inane, and otherwise nonsensical economic interventions from our central bankers that fill the daily economic headlines.
As Saudi Arabia spins from crisis to crisis, U.S. oil hasn't missed a beat. It's stronger and more resilient than ever– and it has nothing to do with OPEC oil production cuts.
As Technocracy and its Green Economy encroaches on Capitalism and Free Enterprise, traditional economic models are being forever corrupted with non-economic factors. Traditional economic analysis depends on factual historical data. Green Economic ana
A state-mandated minimum wage causes unemployment. It's just a basic principle of economics.
As Doug Casey has correctly noted, the prime directive of any organism--whether it's an amoeba or a person or a corporation or a government--is to survive.
...after stores open their doors early
The Wall Street Journal published a superb example of hopium recently in a sunny-side-up story entitled "U. S. Manufacturing Rides Rising Tide, Buoyed by Global Growth, Optimism."
Goodbye American Dream: The Average U.S. Household Is $137,063 In Debt, And 38.4% Of Millennials Live With Their Parents
Durable Goods orders fell 1.2% led by aircraft down 18.6%. Autos orders rose 1.7% in a lingering hurricane effect.
- First Time Since 2014
The Senate Finance Committee tax bill is not supply side and it's not even a tax cut; it's a gimmick-ridden policy mongrel that smells to high heaven of political desperation and cynicism.
John Rubino recently posted a graph from Bob Prechter's Elliot Wave that points to some ominous signs. It depicts the S&P 500, combined with consumer confidence and savings rate.
As the holiday season approaches, the pressure to spend spikes. This year, gift-buying Americans plan to spend $660 on average.
High marginal tax rates in the 1950s failed to generate revenue and stunted economic performance.
(and it will fall much further)
"The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants of the old social order will disintegrate. Political and econ
Americans can no longer afford to get sick and there's a reason why.
After we first reported last week that US credit card debt once again rose above $1 trillion, despite a recent sharp downward revision to the data, while both student and auto loans rose to a fresh record high...
Brett Veinotte (SchoolSucksProject.com) stops by the Freedom's Phoenix Studio while on his way back to New Hampshire - Davi Barker (Writer, Artist, Merchant, Speaker; The Muslim Agorist; Bitcoin Not Bombs; Survivor Max; Shiny Badges) joins the conver
I hope this article brings forward important questions about the Federal Reserves role in the US and I openly admit this is by no means a comprehensive article...
The financial system is loaded with anomalies, deformations and mispricings----outcomes which would never occur on an honest free market. For example, the junk bond yield at just 2% in Europe is now below that of the "risk-free" US treasury bond owin
European elites are hoarding cash, the Japanese are stuffing safes full of high-denomination bills, the saudis are scrambling, and judging from the following chart, the richest Americans are getting increasingly concerned about the safety of their we
"I could really use that $200,000 right now" my friend Brad told me over dinner.
The black swan in plain sight does emit the Donald's orangish glow, but at the end of the day its true color is actually red.
If the U.S. economy is doing just fine, why have we already shattered the all-time record for retail store closings in a single year?
Earlier in 2017, using the latest Fed data newspapers and financial media reported that US consumer credit card debt had risen above $1 trillion for the first time since the financial crisis