Economic Bubble

What would Jesus drive? Its a question you see posed by bumper stickers across America. The answer, of course, is an old Honda he prefers not to talk about: For I did not speak of my own Accord. The devil, one suspects, has more extravagant taste, and while …

M2 money supply has increased $796 billion y-t-d to $15.245 TN. With two months to go, 2019 M2 growth is on track to easily exceed 2016's record $854 billion expansion. Recent M2 growth is nothing short of spectacular. M2 has jumped $329 billion in 10 weeks, …

Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones warned on Tuesday that a mix of rock-bottom interest rates and runaway government spending was a heady brew fueling an economic bubble that will eventually burst. At a wide-ranging discussion at the Greenwich Economic Forum with …

On Friday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison vowed to craft new laws targeting social and political protest. Speaking to the Queensland Resources Council, he labelled some activist groups as environmental anarchists, and lamented how businesses like banks might b…

On Friday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison vowed to craft new laws targeting social and political protest. Speaking to the Queensland Resources Council, he labelled some activist groups as environmental “anarchists”, and lamented how businesses like banks might…

Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The momentum pushing for the overhaul of the financial system from its current disorderly state of unbounded speculation (amounting to over $1.5 quadrillion of derivatives) towards a reformed ce…

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent an…

DANDONG, LIAONING PROVINCE, CHINA - 2016/10/11: Vacant streets, shops and residential buildings in Guomen Bay. Since the China and North Korea agreed to build a new Yalu River bridge at Guomen Bay in 2009, a large sum of funds have been invested in LightRock…

Another week, another stream of mainstream media headlines that simplify complex economic and geopolitical facts and factors, distilling them down to a reason or two as to why markets move and economies shift. Last week, for example, after the Dow slumped on…

For Lee Utsumi, the scariest thing she has ever done is open her own bakery. “It’s like jumping out of a plane,” she says. “I’ve done that, and it’s the same. You never know what’s going to happen.” Lee’s Bread, set in a cluster of old wooden buildings down …