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By Sean Brodrick On July 29, 202106:36 AM Eastern
Everyone is excited about gold … silver … palladium … the rare-earth metals. Meanwhile, there’s a metal you probably use every day that’s chugging along, unnoticed … headed for the supply-demand...
By Sean Brodrick On April 1, 202102:00 AM Eastern
Yesterday, President Joe Biden unveiled a $2.25-trillion U.S. infrastructure plan in Pittsburgh. It’s the most sweeping government investment since the 1960s space program.
Some of the details...
By Sean Brodrick On August 30, 201811:55 AM Eastern
America has been in a Mexican standoff for the past year. By that, I mean the U.S. and Mexico faced off in a bitter dispute over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The standoff...
By Mike Larson On May 8, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Healthcare reform has paralyzed Washington for a couple of months now. But last Thursday, House Republicans cobbled together enough support to pass their American Health Care Act by a vote of...
By Jon D. Markman On April 14, 201507:30 AM Eastern
You may have heard that California is experiencing an historic drought — the worst in 200 years by some measures. While this might seem like a problem isolated to lawns and swimming pools in the...
By Mike Larson On December 18, 201708:00 AM Eastern
On Friday, I shared my list of the best-performing, highest-rated ETFs of 2017. Now it’s time to do the same thing for STOCKS! Our Weiss Ratings database contains more than 13,700 stocks, so...
By Gavin Magor On August 23, 201805:30 PM Eastern
They're all beating the S&P 500 this year and poised to keep outrunning the bull This run-up is remarkable. Wall Street barely blinks an eye at news from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that would...
By Sean Brodrick On August 31, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Most folks have left coal for dead. Almost every way you look at it, the U.S. coal industry is in decline. Heck, even the sector’s main exchange-traded fund (ETF) — VanEck Vectors Coal ETF...
By Tony Sagami On June 8, 202002:01 PM Eastern
I recently went shopping. At the register, I handed the cashier a $20 bill. She grimaced at me and gingerly pinched the corner of it like it was a paper bag filled with dog poop.
This wasn’t an...
By Sean Brodrick On April 21, 202007:57 AM Eastern
“When you’re living on an extremely thin margin and then the rug is pulled out from under you, you go from barely surviving to not surviving,” says Saru Jayaraman of One Fair Wage, an Oakland,...