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By Tony Sagami On June 14, 201908:45 AM Eastern
Recessions? What are those?
According to the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, the official statistic arbiter of recessions, our economy hasn't had a recession in 10 years. This ties...
By Sean Brodrick On May 21, 201912:00 PM Eastern
Major outages and a stand-off between the U.S. and Iran are sending oil back into bull mode. What a change from when crude made 12½ year lows in 2016 and fell again late last year. Many investors...
By Jon D. Markman On May 17, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The extreme -2.5% setback to U.S. markets to kick off this week set off a ton of alarm bells among the sort of quantitative analysts who help us understand current events through the prism of past...
By Sean Brodrick On March 16, 201912:00 PM Eastern
By now, you’ve heard that Parliament voted to push the battle over Britain’s exit from the EU, or “Brexit,” past the original March 29 deadline. Now it’s June 30.
Maybe Britain will leave then....
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On March 11, 201907:55 AM Eastern
The final reckoning for the global debt crisis is now near.
The crisis has never truly ended. It was merely swept under the rug with massive money-printing by central banks. And now we’re...
By Sean Brodrick On February 23, 201911:00 AM Eastern
The mainstream media is fixated on the on-again/off-again U.S.-China trade deal; so much so that some important stories are slipping through the cracks.
Here, I’ve rounded up important,...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On February 11, 201909:55 AM Eastern
Another shutdown looms.
No one in Washington wants it. They swear on a stack of bibles they won’t let it happen.
But bipartisan talks broke down yesterday, and the chances are now only about...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On December 20, 201811:55 AM Eastern
Weiss Ratings Upgrades 438 Bank Ratings; Downgrades 508
Ratings upgraded the financial strength ratings of 438 banks and downgraded 508 based on its analysis of third quarter 2018 results....
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On October 29, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Dominos are beginning to fall.
Start with Turkey.
Its yearly inflation rate has skyrocketed to a whopping 24.5%, the worst in 15 years.
But that’s actually slow in comparison to the most...
What will it take for blockchain, more broadly called Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), to go mainstream and change the world as we know it today?
In the first part of this series, we...