A few millennia ago, shining, yellow nuggets, which we now know as gold, were discovered. It was first discovered in streams across the globe in its natural state. It is…
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With the world’s eyes focused on the Brexit vote, and the subsequent rollercoaster ride of the stock market, we may be overlooking much more serious developments elsewhere. As recently as…
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One of the puzzling aspects to the recovery since the Great Recession is that U.S. manufacturing has ticked up but U.S. manufacturing jobs have not. The prime example of why…
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Black swans get kind of a raw deal based solely on the color of their feathers. No one really wants them around and, at one point, no one was sure…
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Since the Reagan era China has bled off jobs from the United States to achieve double digit growth. Entire sections of our nation, particularly in the upper Midwest, collapsed economically.…
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There was a tectonic economic shift in 2015 and most of the world didn’t even notice it took place. Like any major economic shift the change started decades before. In…
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The stock market is definitely not for the faint of heart in August. The entire month has been a pretty steady beat down, interrupted briefly by one of the biggest…
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The stock market this week is not for the faint of heart. Markets shed nearly $1.8 trillion in wealth over the span of three trading days. You have to go…
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The U.S. and China are at war, only it’s not with guns, bombs and missiles. You won’t see burned out homes on television or streams of refugees leaving cities but…
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One thing you can count right around this time of year is a series of gloomy economic forecasts. There’s a reason one of the stock market’s favorite witticisms is “sell…