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
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?
04Feb
The Wobbly State of Chinese Banks
Chinese business owes more to their banks than the value of the entire Chinese economy. What happens when it all comes crashing down?
04Feb
Size Matters – “Too Big to Fail” Banks Are Bigger Than Ever
As banks grow bigger who wins? They rake in mega-millions and take risks without consequences, meanwhile your savings are targeted by thieves both without and within.
03Feb
“Gut-Wrenching, Multi-Day, Triple-Digit Bloodbaths”
Was January’s cardiac-inducing stock market volatility an anomaly, or the shape of things to come for a long time?
03Feb
The Lid on the Silver Price is About to Pop
When is eighty-four cents a big deal? When it lays bare the machinations that govern – perhaps even artificially suppress – prices in a multi-billion dollar industry.
02Feb
Japan Goes Negative
Negative interest rates sound like an oxymoron, but they're real and they're sweeping the globe. Could they sweep away what's left of your savings?