Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good, but I’ll hazard a guess. I expect the U.S. economy to sputter in 2016. That’s because the…

The  tremors rattling markets are not exactly what they seem to be. A meme prevails that these movements represent a kind of financial peristalsis —…

According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the shadowy “central bank of central banks,” the world as it stands is incapable of combating another…

Imagine if you had a product to sell that didn’t require advertising or marketing, but the majority of people thought they had to have it.…

The higher financial markets rise, the harder they fall.  By any objective measurement, the stock market is currently well into bubble territory. Anyone should be…

Since the global economic crisis, sharp divergences in economic performance have contributed to considerable stock-market volatility. Now, equity prices are reaching relatively high levels by…