Last week the US stock market experienced a major hiccup as it now appears the US economy is softening in areas and the ‘Trump Trade’…
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Updates on French election's significance; Obama's $400,000 bank speaking fee; US corp tax cuts; Wells Fargo "saved" by Warren Buffett; why bringing home US corps'…
A look at the role of the private financial regime within the Deep State
The US stock markets are recognized by a growing number of analysts as approaching, or already in, bubble territory. Yet stocks have ratcheted up another…
Anthropologist Margaret Mead is famously quoted as giving credit for most social and cultural change to small groups of individuals who pioneer new priorities and…
The Fed raised interest rates again this past week. Jack explains it has little to do with it having reached its inflation or employment targets,…
North of the Border, Up Canada Way......
A look at the state of US economy – bail-ins, derivatives, austerity
Markets and small business optimism continue to climb under President Trump, aided by deregulation, tax deals, and stimulus programs. While markets and employment have grown,…
U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin isn’t jumping on the Republican bandwagon to audit the Fed. In written questions by senators following his confirmation hearing…
Jack Rasmus reviews the key economic events, US and global, in the run-up to the Trump inauguration: China President Xi warning of trade war with…
On a chilly December afternoon in Atlanta, a judge told Reiton Allen that he had seven days to leave his house or the marshals would…