Economic Bubble

President Trump and President Xi are meeting in Osaka as I write. We'll know much more in the morning. Pre-meeting reports had the two sides agreeing to a "truce." Heading into the meeting, President Trump said progress was made in Friday trade talk preparati…

Left: Stock photo via Getty. Right: Photo of Bernie Sanders by Sean Rayford/GettyNick Hawthorne has had a rough couple of years. The 37-year-old film professor at Montana Tech found out at Christmas that not only is he not getting tenure, his entire departmen…

In his best-selling book The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, author Thomas Friedman made the case that a combination of geopolitical forces and technology innovations combined to create a new globalized, flat world. As he explored…

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, In an article published in September 2015 titled 'The Real Reason Why The Fed Will Raise Interest Rates' I outlined a kind of economic war game, a predictive theory in which the Federal Reserve would hike rates i…

by Brandon Smith In an article published in September 2015 titled The Real Reason Why The Fed Will Raise Interest Rates I outlined a kind of economic war game, a predictive theory in which the Federal Reserve would hike rates into clear economic weakness in …

This article was originally published by Brandon Smith at Alt-Market. Nothing is written in stone except the primary agenda, which is: Inflate financial bubble through stimulus, implode the financial bubble through tightening. Afterward, the Fed has options.…

Waseda University’s beginnings hark back to 1882, when samurai turned politician-cum-educator Shigenobu Okuma founded Tokyo Senmon Gakko (Tokyo College). The institution acquired university status in 1902 and was renamed Waseda University. Since its establis…

By Brandon Smith In an article published in September 2015 titled ‘The Real Reason Why The Fed Will Raise Interest Rates’ I outlined a kind of economic war game, a predictive theory in which the Federal Reserve would hike rates into clear economic weakness i…

Istanbul is one of the most famous cities in the world, on account of a storied history encompassing myriad great events. As Byzantium, it was first the fortress of the eastern Roman Empire and then the bastion of Orthodox Christianity.  After its fall to …

He has written a comprehensive volume, part-memoir but largely an analysis of the pitfalls of central banking in Ireland and Europe, with much sage guidance for the avoidance of future trouble in both locations.Ireland has, in almost a century of independence…