The trial of Martin Shkreli has been capturing headlines for the past few weeks. The infamous “Pharma Bro” first made waves in 2015 when his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, attained the rights to the drug Daraprim, hiking its price from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill...
The latest US government jobs report showed that older Americans are working longer than ever. That’s an indicator that older Americans lack the ability to retire because they’re not in a sound enough financial position to retire...
In another sign of a returning bubble, mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are going to start loosening their lending standards, allowing borrowers to spend up to half of their pretax income on mortgages.
A while back I stated in an interview that I wouldn’t be shocked to see stock markets decline 25% and gold increase 50% by October. That made a lot of headlines because
One of the common worries that all retirees have is whether their retirement savings will last until they die. There’s perhaps no greater fear than
A recent survey has shown that baby boomer investors have far less money saved up in their defined contribution plans than they should. That survey of investors found that
The Federal Reserve last week published the minutes from its most recent Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. That gives a better
The average length of auto loans in the United States is longer now than ever before. That’s a worrying sign that American households
Americans gathered together this week to celebrate the birth of our nation. The United States is still one of the freest countries on the face of the planet. Its citizens continue to enjoy rights that
Perceiving economic bubbles can often be more an art than a science. The first step towards discovering the existence of a bubble is...