By Economy Watch America is home to some of the world’s best hospitals and doctors, but it also has one of the most unaffordable healthcare systems. In fact, medical bankruptcies are on the rise and America desperately...
Read MoreBy Jerry Schiff (viaiMFDirect) As a Japanese proverb has it: “Knocked down seven times, get up eight.” In a display of its resilience, Japan is getting up once again after the devastating earthquake and tsunami of a...
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge In the aftermath of Knight’s crushing algo-driven error and subsequent cash loss, which may well prove terminal for the business – an artifact of a broken market we have been warning and...
Read MoreBy Chris Vermeulen While the exchange traded funds for gold and copper (NYSEARCA: JJC) fell yesterday due to investors expressing disappoint at the modest response of the Federal Reserve to declining economic growth, it was...
Read MoreBy Anthony Harrington via QFinance The IMF’s job, in its Article IV country reports, is to fact find, then tell things like they are with a view to making recommendations to promote financial stability and growth. That...
Read MoreBy Wall Street Rant Morningstar has been rolling out it’s new “forward looking” analyst ratings for mutual funds since last November as I have touched on before. The number of funds rated has gone from 349...
Read MoreGold Futures Prices remain subdued ahead of some key central bank meetings this week, and the crucial U.S. jobs report on Friday. The Gold Futures Market also remains focused this week on the two-day FOMC meeting of the U.S....
Read MoreBy Stan Abrams As you may have heard, Adidas recently announced the closure of its last remaining directly-owned factory in China. They’re going elsewhere in search of lower labor costs. However, that decision did not go...
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge When might the government roll out another stimulus? Have local governments already announced major stimulus? Will the economy grow at a much slower pace than targeted by the government if no new...
Read MoreBy Kurt Cobb It’s easy to forget that every piece of our current infrastructure–roads, rails, runways, bridges, industrial plants, housing–was built with a certain temperature range in mind. Our agricultural...
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