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By Sean Brodrick On February 16, 202107:24 AM Eastern
Is it mere coincidence that every 100 years, the world is devastated by a pandemic?
From the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 … to the Cholera pandemic of 1820 … to the Spanish Flu circa 1920...
By David Dittman On February 16, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Cannabis stocks enjoyed quite the run in the days and weeks after I wrote “We Need to Talk About Weed” on Jan. 19.
They even got caught up in the “Reddit Revolution,” as guerrilla traders from...
By Sean Brodrick On January 19, 202107:11 AM Eastern
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, historians began talking about “the end of history.”
International conflict would diminish as more nations embraced...
By David Dittman On October 6, 202004:04 PM Eastern
Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu boiled down Monday’s action shortly after noon.
“It’s ‘risk on’ across the board, and it all boils down to ‘stimulus,’” said the financial network’s markets reporter. “And...
By Sean Brodrick On October 6, 202005:00 AM Eastern
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” That whimsical saying is attributed to baseball great Yogi Berra. It might make you chuckle, but Yogi was right. Predictions are...
By David Dittman On September 8, 202002:27 PM Eastern
It struck me early this morning as I was reading a book about the grand, grotesque Reconstruction Era in the United States ...
This scene in question was merely a subplot in A. J. Langguth’s...
By David Dittman On August 4, 202004:49 PM Eastern
Of course, it’s never just one thing.
But when the President of the United States, in the midst of a pandemic that continues to ravage the economy and challenge his leadership, suggests the...
Fascination and enthusiasm for Bitcoin is running red-hot. And it's not hard to see why.
On the pretext of pandemic panic, the U.S. Federal Reserve is printing and spending $41 billion a day....
By Sean Brodrick On May 7, 202008:50 AM Eastern
As I walked my faithful dog this morning, I came across a goose sitting atop a neighbor’s roof. You couldn’t miss this goose. It was squawking like a Fiat being run over by a Mack truck.
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By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On May 4, 202009:46 AM Eastern
It will be the worst number ever.
It will hit the market like a nuclear bomb.
And investors will probably begin reacting to the expected shock even before it’s actually released.
It’s is a...