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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 Jon D. Markman On July 20, 202001:20 PM Eastern
Investors shouldn’t pay too much attention to politics. It clouds their judgement. That said, something big is happening — a new political talking point is making the rounds on both sides of the...
By Sean Brodrick On July 7, 202006:00 AM Eastern
The oldest American company — perfume and soap maker Caswell-Massey — has been in existence since 1752, before our country was even founded. There are few other companies with that kind of staying...
By Mike Larson On June 24, 202003:01 PM Eastern
“Everything is expensive.”
That’s how a Longview Economics strategist recently described this environment.
Why? Because more than 80% of the markets his firm tracks are overpriced — the most...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On June 22, 202012:49 PM Eastern
All four of the places in the world where I’ve spent the most time in recent years have experienced frightening surges in COVID-19 cases.
One is northern Italy. We go there to visit our dear...
The vast majority of the 2,647 cryptocurrencies listed by CoinMarketCap.com trade on nothing more than hopes and dreams. Only a few have real world use cases.
And of those, almost none are as...
By Mike Larson On June 3, 202004:00 PM Eastern
The year 2020 is one for the record books.
Indeed, even the most macabre author of dystopian fiction would have been hard-pressed to conjure up the events we’ve seen so far — and the year isn’t...
By Sean Brodrick On April 30, 202008:18 AM Eastern
The Great Toilet Paper Shortage™ seems to be ebbing. As recently as April 12, a whopping 73% of U.S. grocery stores had no toilet paper on their shelves, according to Reuters data. More recently,...
By Jon D. Markman On April 13, 202001:17 PM Eastern
Global commerce was in transition before the pandemic. Now, businesses are accelerating their digital aspirations and work will never be the same.
That claim can definitively be backed up by the...
By Mike Larson On March 25, 202002:11 PM Eastern
We may be living in a “worst-case” scenario.
That’s exactly what it sounds like. The absolute worst outcome to any threat that an analyst, investor, policymaker or economist can dream up could...