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By Sean Brodrick On July 20, 202106:46 AM Eastern
We may be headed for war. A resource war.
But it won’t be over oil, or spices, or water or any of the other things that previous wars have been fought over. No, the next war is more likely to be...
The big cryptocurrencies are holding steady, while many altcoins have ripped to new highs.
• Bitcoin (BTC, Tech/Adoption Grade “A-”) is pretty much right to the level where it started the...
By Sean Brodrick On March 30, 202106:06 AM Eastern
In 1824, Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted heated and mixed two compounds together, producing a lump of metal that looked a lot like tin. It wasn’t until 1845 that German...
By David Dittman On January 26, 202104:15 PM Eastern
Ray Dalio is the founder and co-chief investment officer of the largest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates. On Sunday, Dalio said, “I believe we are on the brink of a terrible civil...
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...
At the Federal Reserve’s recent summit in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Chairman Jerome Powell made a rather alarming announcement. He officially scrapped the Fed's decades-long inflation target...
By Sean Brodrick On September 15, 202006:00 AM Eastern
Why are the markets running around like actors in a “B”-rated horror flick?
Because investors know something is lurking out there.
Growing.
Spreading.
This thing is like The Blob … all...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On June 8, 202010:17 AM Eastern
This shocking megatrend is nothing new.
You’ve been suffering its consequences for a long, long time.
It’s like Chinese water torture. Drip by drip, day after day, year after year, it has...
By Sean Brodrick On January 2, 202006:50 AM Eastern
The story of gold, along with the story of all metals on earth, begins 4.6 billion years ago. That’s when a giant star — a real colossus — burned through its last joules of fuel and erupted in a...