Financial

By Mac Slavo Remember back in early 2008 when the Presidential election was in full swing and the majority of financial and political pundits were hailing the booming American economy, record home ownership and never […]

“Everything that was ‘too big to fail’ in 2008 is bigger and more dangerous today,” says New York Times bestselling author James Rickards. Rickards predicts the crash of the global currency market and insolvency of […]

By Mac Slavo There is a euphoria being enjoyed by many in the investment world and in economic circles centered around the notion that the world has recovered from the financial crisis of 2008. Stock […]

By Charles Hugh Smith When rigged numbers are the basis of our success, we have failed. The essence of the U.S. economy is make it look good: never mind quality or long-term consequences, just make […]

By: Michael Pento The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently reported that Q1 GDP was only 0.1% in the United States. Most of that anemic number was blamed on worse-than-usual weather. But it should be […]

by Jeffrey P. Snider The global dollar situation continues to get muddied by divergent and apparently unrelated factors of significant scale. The Chinese are still not buying UST with nearly the same vigor that was […]

By Max Keiser Two big, macabre stories came out of Wall Street recently: the rash of banker deaths by apparent murder and/or suicide, and speculation that bank CEOs themselves are behind the trend to cash […]

  It is truly astonishing how much trust people have in the establishment. Almost everyone believes that central planners are focused on defending the best outcome for society. In the same respect, almost everyone nowadays believes that […]

By Mark O’Byrne Today’s AM fix was USD 1,300.25, EUR 948.33 and GBP 775.20 per ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,292.75, EUR 939.91 and GBP 766.67 per ounce. Gold fell $3.40 or 0.26% yesterday […]