Authored by Christoph Gisiger via Finanz und Wirtschaft,
James Grant, Wall Street expert and editor of the renowned investment newsletter «Grant’s Interest Rate Observer», warns of the unseen consequences of super low interest rate and questions the extraordinary actions of the Swiss National Bank.
Nearly ten years after the financial crisis, extraordinary monetary policy has become the norm.
Authored by Alan Stanczyk via Medium.com,
Bitcoin was on my radar far back as 2011, but for years, I didn’t think much of it.
It was a curiosity. Nothing more.
"The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force," said Thomas Jefferson in an 1807 letter to Chandler Price. And what would the nation's third president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence say of today's American "global force" deployed across the earth?
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
Donald Trump ran for President on the concept of “America First.” What does this mean in practice for his governing philosophy and foreign policy? Drastic cuts to foreign aid expenditures, namely, the money the U.S. sends to other countries for humanitarian, developmental and economic reasons. This made us wonder how much foreign aid the U.S. currently sends overseas and where the money is going, so we created a new viz. Per HowMuch: