By James Picerno of The Capital Speculator American consumers are spending less and saving more. That’s the message in yesterday’s personal income and consumption report for December from the Bureau of Economic...
Read MoreBy Michael Snyder How would you feel if someone told you that one of the largest banks on Wall Street makes more money whenever the number of Americans on food stamps goes up? Unfortunately, this is something that is actually...
Read MoreBy Louise Basenese of Wall Street Daily Once again, I’m featuring the precipitous decline of the Baltic Dry Index. Why? Because last week’s column sparked a bit of controversy. And I feel the need to make some...
Read MoreBy George Friedman of Stratfor Global Intelligence The German government proposed last week that a European commissioner be appointed to supplant the Greek government. While phrasing the German proposal this way might seem...
Read MoreBy Louise Basenese of Wall Street Daily Since August 2011, I’ve been ushering in proof that the China growth story is slowing down. Now we have even more proof… Last week, China’s statistics bureau revealed...
Read MoreBy Ellen Brown The Wall Street Journal reported on January 19th that the Obama Administration was pushing heavily to get the 50 state attorneys general to agree to a settlement with five major banks in the...
Read MoreBy Roberto De Primis Before exploring the Euro pitfalls and how the European single currency could survive, let’s start our today’s post with the Governants blindness. Usually, the European Council has to meet once...
Read MoreBy Kurt Cobb It’s counterintuitive that suppressing volatility in human affairs would actually make the world a more dangerous place. But that is precisely the thesis of a recent article by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark...
Read MoreBy Michele Lin Many of us are familiar with the basic services that banks provide. In simple, straightforward cases, banks keep our money and pay an interest on it, while providing the convenience of cash withdrawals along their...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes China has been hungry to power its country for more than 1.3 billion residents, and takeouts of commodity-related companies is one way to fill its tall energy order. We told you about one merger and acquisition...
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