Buchanan: Where Did All Those "Capitalist Pigs" Go? Authored by Pat Buchanan, “There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than...
One of the stark developments since the initial shock of the pandemic has been the aggressiveness of the US monetary and fiscal response. This was also...
Rising Bond Yields Threaten Financial Market Stability Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, There is a growing recognition in financial circles that price inflation will increase...
Unemployment due to voluntary quits remains extraordinarily low. The April employment report was considerably weaker than had generally been expected, with the economy adding just 266,000...
Futures Rise Ahead Of Blockbuster Payrolls As Commodities Soar S&P futures rose overnight alongside European and Asian market in another quiet session, as commodities smashed higher...
Global equities gained 4.2% in April (MSCI AC World index in US dollar terms), with a variety of factors underpinning the rise: accelerating COVID-19 vaccination rollouts;...
My newest theme this year is contrarian versus consensus, and I am sure that’s to no bewilderment from the crowd since trying to find holes in...
Oil bucks the trend and retreats One notable laggard in the commodity rally was oil overnight, with both Brent crude and WTI testing range highs again...
Global oil production has continued to rise over the years. Here's a look at the top 10 oil-producing countries of 2020. The post Top 10 Oil-producing...
The US economic rebound picked up speed in the first quarter and even faster growth is expected for the April-through-June period, according to a set of...
Futures Flat As Traders Look For Buying Catalyst For the fourth morning in a row, futures are barely changed - a stark reversal to the previous...
A new study published by PharmacoEconomics gives us new insight into what we already know—the economic burden of depression is extremely detrimental to the U.S. economy....
After starting the week with strong gains, the British pound has settled down. In the North American session, GDP/USD is trading at 1.3900, up 0.09% on...
Snyder: We Are Dangerously Close To "The Tipping Point" Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Every dollar that the federal government borrows and spends puts us...
The BEA announced the advance estimate for Q1 GDP showing an increase of 6.39%. The increase was largely fueled by a massive increase in in consumption...
Yellen comments on interest rates send Nasdaq tumbling Treasury Secretary (and former Federal Reserve Chairperson) Janet Yellen perhaps wished she had used less extreme words last...
Here Is Everything We Know About How Bill And Melinda Plan To Divide Their $150 Billion Fortune Many investors were surprised Tuesday morning when Microsoft shares...
Overview: After seeing its pre-weekend gains pared yesterday, partly due to some disappointing data, the US bounced back today. It is posting broad gains, and the...
Is The US Economy A Virtual Reality? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research, An owner of the bar explained to me...
With the month of May already getting plenty of scrutiny as to whether investors should “sell and go away,” it seems pretty clear to me, based...
The Fed's "Base-Effect" Inflation Argument Is Nonsense By Joseph Carson, former chief economist of Alliance Bernstein Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has played down the current...
After generally trending higher in the first quarter, the dollar slumped in April. An important leg of support was cut, as interest rates fell. The 10-year...
Overview: The capital markets are off to a cautious start of a week that features the central bank meetings in the UK, Australia, Norway, Poland, Czech,...
Is The COVID-19 Recession Over? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, As measured by GDP, the Covid-19 recession will soon be over assuming it isn't already....
The US dollar traded heavily most of last week but rebounded ahead of the weekend, with some month-end flows impacting. The Japanese yen was a notable...
U.S. stocks fell across the board on Friday to end the week with fractional losses. Technology and Healthcare names led the way lower, while the Energy...
Niall Ferguson: How Ike's 1950s America Beat The 'Asian Flu' With Science & Common Sense This essay is adapted from Mr. Ferguson’s new book, “Doom: The...
China Has A Grand Carbon Neutrality Target... But Where Is The Plan? Authored by Alicia García-Herrero and Simone Tagliapietra, both Senior Fellows at Bruegel, China’s new...
CloseCloseCloseHealthcare has been lagging the market, but that is now changing.As biotechs consolidate, other healthcare industry groups are powering the sector to a breakout.Medical Devices and...
Biden's Anti-Eurasian Green Delusion And America's Race To Irrelevance Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Many people couldn’t help but laugh when Biden told...