Authored by Mark St.Cyr,
Bubbles are easy to spot – pinpointing when they’ll pop – is quite another.
I coined that phrase a while back which is nothing more than adding my own spin combining two very old catch phrases used by seasoned traders and investors. I use the word “seasoned” for a reason. Why?
Authored by Julia Belluz via Vox.com,
In 2015, a blockbuster study came to a surprising conclusion: Middle-aged white Americans are dying younger for the first time in decades, despite positive life expectancy trends in other wealthy countries and other segments of the US population.
The research, by Princeton University’s Anne Case and Angus Deaton, highlighted the links between economic struggles, suicides, and alcohol and drug overdoses.
A little over 4 years ago Obama infamously mocked Governor Mitt Romney for his assertion that Russia was America's number one geopolitical foe...
"Governor Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that Al Qaeda's a threat. Because a few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America you said 'Russia'. The 1980's are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War has been over for 20 years."
Authored by Jeff Reeves via The Hill
I’m not a fan of the “greed is good” mentality of Wall Street investment firms. But the next financial crisis that rocks America won’t be driven by bankers behaving badly. It will in fact be driven by pension funds that cannot pay out what they promised to retirees. According to one pension advocacy organization, nearly 1 million working and retired Americans are covered by pension plans at the risk of collapse.
Authored by Justin Raimondo via TheAntiMedia.org,
The allegation – now accepted as incontrovertible fact by the “mainstream” media – that the Russian intelligence services hacked the Democratic National Committee (and John Podesta’s emails) in an effort to help Donald Trump get elected recently suffered a blow from which it may not recover.