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By Mike Larson On August 26, 202005:05 PM Eastern
It’s official. The world’s biggest countries now owe more money than they did right after World War II. Debt as a percentage of GDP just hit 128%, versus 124% in 1946.
And that’s just government...
By David Dittman On August 18, 202004:17 PM Eastern
The thing about Twitter is that it holds a lot of good stuff.
On the other hand, the social media platform holds a lot of bad stuff, too.
Well, this is good Twitter, because it’s a solid...
By Sean Brodrick On August 18, 202005:30 AM Eastern
The Fed’s money-printing presses are running at ludicrous speeds. And what the government doesn’t print, it just borrows on credit and spends. The Federal debt is approaching $27 trillion at...
By Jon D. Markman On August 17, 202002:00 PM Eastern
The digital transformation is the biggest, most investable tech trend in a generation. Don’t take my word for it: The evidence is overflowing in this quarter’s earnings reports … and this trend...
By Sean Brodrick On August 15, 202005:00 AM Eastern
What a wild couple of weeks it’s been for gold.
First, the yellow metal pushed over its previous all-time high of $1,923, and, on Aug. 7, it clocked an intraday high of $2,089 per ounce. Then...
By Tony Sagami On August 7, 202005:27 PM Eastern
My father, a vegetable farmer in western Washington, was permanently affected by the Great Depression. For millions of Americans during those tough times, my father really learned how to pinch a...
By Mike Larson On August 5, 202005:11 PM Eastern
Fifty-four companies defaulted on their debts in the second quarter of 2020. That was the most for any three-month period since 2009 in the wake of the Great Recession.
It gets worse. The...
By Tony Sagami On July 31, 202006:03 PM Eastern
A “V”-shaped recovery? That’s what Wall Street keeps telling us is coming.
So how come governments around the world keep coming up with multi-trillion-currency stimulus plans?
Last week, the...
By Mike Larson On July 29, 202004:35 PM Eastern
The COVID-19 outbreak may have put the kibosh on this year’s summer concert season. But it sure didn’t stop the Federal Reserve from launching its own “Print-A-Palooza” fest!
Its balance sheet...
By David Dittman On July 20, 202005:15 PM Eastern
Way back when I first started out in this business, around the turn of the century, there was this guy who’d walk around the office saying/asking/blurting, “Are you bull or bear?”
He did more...