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The first article describes why the richest country on earth can't produce enough face masks...The second is a commentary by famous bond guru James Grant, who explains how the Federal Reserve's low interest rate policy has made the economic crisi
...As US Slides Into Depression. Just like that the 113 record straight months of employment growth is over with a bang.
Amidst all the glee over Congress's $2 trillion "stimulus" package, an important and relevant question naturally arises: Will the federal government end up nationalizing and confiscating people's retirement accounts to pay for the ever-burgeo
Geopolitical strategist and author Peter Zeihan explains how we got to the current state of geopolitics and the changing demographics across the global superpowers that will impact our coming economy.
"This Is Turning Into A Disaster" - Some Americans Might Wait 20 Weeks Or Longer For Stimulus Checks
In all of U.S. history, we have never seen a spike in unemployment like we are witnessing right now.
Over the last few weeks, the Federal Reserve has been in utter desperation mode to try to revive and keep the American economy on life support.
The Federal Reserve is trying to call time on a fire sale of Treasuries by foreign governments and central banks.
At the depths of both the post dot-com bubble and the financial crisis, the New York City Purchasing Manager Current Business Conditions index, a relatively obscure indicator which focuses on the economy of the financial capital of the world, slumped
As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, economies slump, stocks of personal protective equipment and key drugs dwindle in the US, and as Americans buy record numbers of guns, the market focus today is arguably going to be on one thing: How high is
US stocks fell on Thursday after a government report that the number of Americans filing for unemployment insurance has skyrocketed to more than 6.6 million new claims, bringing the total over the last two weeks to 10 million.
What can the average person do to prevent their wealth being erased? These are the questions that Mike Maloney tackles in today's update, you may be surprised by some of the data and evidence that he provides for his case.
The novel coronavirus has already had a significant impact on the global economy, which will worsen if the outbreak and the shutdowns designed to contain it continue for very long.
After signing the record-breaking $6.2-trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Act over the weekend, President Trump called for an additional $2-trillion spending in the upcoming 'phase 4' coronavirus stimulus. US agencies say they need $600-billion of the
Jerry Day explains why the tests for coronavirus are worthless. The tests have been used on dead people to create false death statistics. Day points to the real crisis, which is economic, caused by debt and policies of the banking cartel called the F
Thomas Massie explains that the Coronavirus stimulus bill is the largest wealth transfer in human history and would make Roman emperors blush. $6-trillion divided by US population means each family will pay $60,000. $1,200 given back to taxpayers is
Most of us have lower pain thresholds than we would like to admit. And have developed various coping mechanisms to deal with it.
Austrians and Libertarians are well-established critics of central banking in general, and emergency monetary stimulus in particular.
49 Percent Of U.S. Companies Expect Layoffs "In The Next Three Months" As Unemployment Heads To Great Depression Levels
The Federal Reserve is intervening once again to try to smooth out the world's lending markets, this time by lending dollars to other central banks in exchange for Treasurys.
So how can they do this? The Fed will finance a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for each acronym to conduct these operations. The Treasury, using the Exchange Stabilization Fund, will make an equity investment in each SPV and be in a "first loss" p
Millions of Americans already have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis and the worst of the damage is yet to come, according to a Federal Reserve estimate.
At best, Case-Shiller's home price data is lagged seriously, but in the case of the current chaos that the US is going through, January's home-price index data may as well be from Venus, compared to our current Mars.
Fresh on the heels of the largest stimulus in history, House Democrats and government agencies are already compiling their lists with what they say they need from the next package.
Even before the coronavirus pandemic ground the US economy to a halt, the US brick and mortar retail sector was facing an apocalypse of epic proportions with dozens of retailers filing for bankruptcy in recent years as Amazon stole everyone's market
The US Government Is Nationalizing Many Financial Markets with Money from the Federal Reserve, Merging the Treasury with the Fed
For nearly a month, the high yield market was understandably frozen without a single junk bond deal pricing as yields exploded higher, forcing the Fed to step in with an unprecedented intervention to prop up investment grade debt, going so far as to
All eyes have been on the stock market in recent weeks as it has reflected the fears about the coronavirus-induced economic shutdown and the hopes of massive stimulus. It's been quite a rollercoaster ride.
Republican Representative Thomas Massie was harshly criticized for trying to force a floor vote that would have put politicians on record on the $6.2-trillion coronavirus stimulus bill that he opposed.
Amid an ever-escalating guess at the size of pension fund re-allocations funds (latest we saw was $150 billion) into month-end, both bonds and stocks were bid early on today, but as the day wore on, bonds weakened as stocks gained (driven by record I
