The May Housing Starts and Permits released this past Tuesday was quite eye-popping, despite riding the back of a disappointing market drop in the Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq. How so? If you think about it, mortgage rates are averaging a ...
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday left the target policy interest rate (the federal funds rate) unchanged at 5.25 percent. This “pause” in the target rate suggests the FOMC believes it has raised the target rate high ...
To explain Japan’s economic problems, Paul Krugman employed a model that assumes people are identical and live forever. While admitting that the model is not realistic, Krugman nonetheless argued that his model could still offer solutions to the crisis. In ...
The usual suspects are “relieved” that Congress gave President Biden what he wanted on the so-called budget deal. Without sound money, however, the borrowing and spending regime will collapse sooner or later. Original Article: “Sound Money Is Required for Real ...
John Klyczek joins Michael on the first episode of REKT. John (jakE) is the author of School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education. Topics include the behaviorist, collectivist, and eugenicist roots of public (and state-sanctioned private) education, the globalist organizations ...
In this week’s edition of Trading Simplified, Dave shows his methodology in action with a “free rolling” big winner, a potential winner in the making, and a new mystery chart. He then continues his series on the wisdom of Jesse Livermore, ...
Everything seems to be lining up perfectly for individual investors with Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy making a debt ceiling deal. In fact, a sentiment poll reflects an ebullient investor class. According to an Investors Intelligence article titled “Assume the Positioning” ...
In the pre-industrial world, aggression and physical domination were often labeled as “masculine” virtues because they were useful for survival. The rise of the cooperative market economy changed all that. Original Article: “How Capitalism Redefined Masculine Virtue“ ...
CHINA accused the US of tampering with its political promises on Taiwan, days after a high-level meeting brought hope of stabilizing ties, showing the limits to resolving fundamental differences between the world’s two largest economies. Yang Tao, a foreign ministry ...
RUSSIAN air defenses downed three drones in the Moscow region on Wednesday, the Defense Ministry said, in what it called an attempted Ukrainian attack. The ministry said Russian defenses had used electronic jamming to cause the drones to lose control ...