Financial Markets and Presidential Election Anxiety
Added to all the domestic and global pressures on the markets, the U.S. Presidential election piles on drama and confusion, but can it fix anything?
12Feb
11Feb
China’s Banks, Our Oil Industry Threaten Colossal Financial Meltdown
Remember 2008? As Chinese banks and the U.S. oil and gas industry both get set to implode we'll be living the financial nightmare again in 2016.
11Feb
Yellen’s Murky, Misdirecting Congressional Testimony
Fed Chair Janet Yellen's appearance before the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday gave spooked market-watchers little info or reassurance.
10Feb
Banks, Financial Stocks Reach Recession Lows
Just as housing debt torpedoed banks in 2008, leading to the Great Recession, oil industry debt and sputtering global growth are poised to deliver another one-two punch in 2016.
10Feb
Stocks Slide Globally with No Bottom in Sight
Your riskiest investments just got riskier, with forces from oil to emerging markets to negative interest rates arrayed en masse against the stability of the stocks in your portfolio.
09Feb
If You Thought 2016 Couldn’t Get Any Worse
As the year stops being new, markets worldwide are still roiling, oil's crash is taking jobs with it – and with China ever-shakier, hopes for any good news in 2016 are fading.
09Feb
Who Cares What’s in Your Wallet?
Many experts believe consumer spending is the key gauge of a healthy economy. By that measure, our economy could be the healthiest patient on the critical list.
08Feb
Will Out-of-Control Debt Annihilate the Global Economy?
From Europe to Asia to Washington to our own front doors, living in continuous debt has become a way of life. But is the party ending?
05Feb
Gold and the Lost City of the Monkey God
Sure, life today is complicated – but at least you don't have to compete for women with a giant monkey god. Fortunately, if you were a resident of this lost city you had a lot of gold to work with...
05Feb
Gold Now Outperforming Most Other Assets
Like the fabled tortoise, gold endured scorn, even exaggerated reports of its death, while the cocky hares of the stock market laughed. But who's getting the last laugh?