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Just days after a Bernie Sanders campaign ad singled out Goldman Sachs as "one of the Wall Street banks that triggered the financial meltdown," the head of…
Every once in a while it is a good thing to review something we already know and have known for quite a while.  What we’re talking…
Everyone take a deep breath. This isn’t 2007 again.  The banks aren’t loaded with $10 trillion in “toxic” mortgage-backed securities, the housing market hasn’t fallen off a…
William White is one of the world’s top economists. He was the head economist for the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) – the world’s most…
When the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and S&P peaked in May 2015, investors were still confident that the Fed “had their back” and that…
Gerald Celente breaks down how the talking airheads on business broadcast media keep missing the larger picture of crumbling worldwide economies and the undeniable underlying…
The conventional wisdom was that the Fed’s rate hike on December 16 of last year was going to help big bank stocks by boosting their…
Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve had an important role - to solely act as a "lender of last resort" to traditional…
Much has been written and broadcast over the past few weeks in the financial media and the business pages of general-interest newspapers debating the wisdom…
Dr. Jack Rasmus is a professor of political economics at St. Mary’s College and Santa Clara University in California. Prior to teaching, he was an…
Americans are living right on the edge — at least when it comes to financial planning. Approximately 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in…
A lot of people were expecting some really big things to happen in 2015, and most of them did not happen.  But what did happen? …