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On several podcast episodes, Peter Schiff has talked about the warning signs we're seeing on Wall Street through the struggles of so-called unicorn companies.
Unicorns are privately held companies valued over $1 billion. Companies like Lyft, Chewie, Uber and WeWork were the darlings of WallStreet. Their IPOs were much-anticipated by investors. They are also the poster children for easy-money induced market mania, and their IPOs were crucial for maintaining the bubble.
In particular, the demise of WeWork's much-anticipated IPO provides a good object lesson revealing the problems of the Federal Reserve's easy-money policy.

Ideally, free markets are self-correcting, and have an inbuilt self-regulating mechanism. If prices go up too much, the system will push them lower, and vice versa.

Zombie companies in China. Crippling student bills in America. Sky-high mortgages in Australia. Another default scare in Argentina. A decade of easy...

U.S. President Donald Trump said in tweet on Monday that he will immediately restore tariffs on U.S. steel and aluminum imports from Brazil and Argentina.

A wave of social unrest across developing countries this year has caught many investors off-guard and is challenging models designed to gauge political risk for investors, prompting some to pull money out.

After a week in which Daimler AG and Volkswagen AG’s Audi announced thousands of job cuts, it’s easy to forget that the German car industry once seemed unassailable.The 2009 recession forced a massive downsizing of America’s auto giants. General Motors Co. and Chrysler filed for

The deal was stalled also because time was needed to allow Chinese President Xi Jinping's domestic politics to calm, the report bit.ly/2q6cSvw added, citing the unnamed source.

and borrowing binge poses new risks… More than half of all BBB debt would have a junk rating based on leverage alone.

and borrowing binge poses new risks… More than half of all BBB debt would have a junk rating based on leverage alone.

The gold rush mirrors steps by Russia and China to diversify reserves exceeding $3 trillion away from the dollar amid flaring geopolitical tensions with the U.S. Motivations in Europe’s ex-communist wing, however, can vary.

While individuals borrow money from financial institu- tions, the U.S. federal government borrows by selling U.S. Treasury securities (bills, notes, and bonds) to “the public.”

The late 19th century, a period of on-and-off economic downturns following a financial crisis, may have some lessons for anyone trying to make sense of...

As the economy stalls out in 2020, U.S. deficits are going to jump to over $2 trillion a year – and will stay there.  So, too, the national debt will run up towards $40 trillion over the next decade.  The Fed, through YCC or some other wild scheme, will take on the dirty deed of monetizing this debt

Gold prices fell on Monday as investors turned to riskier assets on signs of economic growth following reports of an expanding Chinese factory sector and as a rising dollar reduced demand.

Two hedge fund icons - Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio and Paul Tudor Jones - joined Yahoo Finance for the 2nd annual Greenwich Investment Forum earlier this month.

David says his bias is to the upside to new highs, while not ruling out one more lower low before then. Here's why...

Another 23.6% have no idea if or what gold's backed by, and almost a 25% thought the Fed's job was to secure America’s gold reserves...

One of the biggest modern day movements of gold between global central banks just took place, and it only took 8 trips. Here are the details...

Bill Murphy and others discuss GATA's attempts to blow the whistle on gold suppression...

EGYPT archaeologists were brimming with joy after solving a 3,000-year-old mystery of the whereabouts of the some of the ancient civilisation’s most prestigious leaders, a documentary revealed.