By Sean Brodrick On April 6, 201811:28 AM Eastern
So, we’re going to war. Trade war, that is. President Trump slapped China with $50 billion in potential tariffs. China responded with $50 billion of their own proposed tariffs (sorry, America’s...
By Sean Brodrick On April 6, 201810:04 AM Eastern
President Trump just greenlit Internal Revenue Code Section 965 for only the second time this century.
This is an exceptionally rare — and potentially profitable — event.
What is IRS Code 965?...
By Mike Larson On April 6, 201808:00 AM Eastern
You know the expression “If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck” right?
Well, let’s cut right to the chase: More and more, this market is walking and growling like a bear....
By Tony Sagami On April 6, 201807:55 AM Eastern
How did I get started in this business? As a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch in the 1980s. In retrospect, I cringe at how naive and dumb I was
back then.
But I somehow managed not to destroy...
By Juan M. Villaverde On April 6, 201807:55 AM Eastern
The global monetary system broke in 2008, and no one has bothered to fix it.
Instead, the world’s largest central banks embarked on the most extreme episode of money creation in history — $15...
By Juan M. Villaverde On April 5, 201804:51 PM Eastern
Last week, I pointed out how Bitcoin’s $7,300-to-$9,200 trading range had come to define a sleepy, consolidating crypto-market climate. Then Bitcoin suddenly woke up, and busted out decisively to...
By Mike Larson On April 5, 201811:55 AM Eastern
You know the expression “If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck” right?
Well, this market sure seems to be walking and growling like a bear more and more with each passing...
By Juan M. Villaverde On April 5, 201807:55 AM Eastern
As crypto markets struggle to find a bottom in price, regulators in multiple countries are struggling to get a grip on how to integrate cryptocurrencies into their world.
One of the big concerns...
By Jon D. Markman On April 4, 201801:55 PM Eastern
Healthcare is one-sixth of the U.S. economy. It is a $3 trillion industry. And it is hopelessly broken.
On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Walmart (WMT) was in early talks to...
By Mike Larson On April 4, 201811:12 AM Eastern
The markets have been wilting since early February, with each successive bounce less impressive than the one before it. At the same time, overall volatility has exploded — with multi-hundred-point...