Consumer prices for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) Special aggregate indexes log scale, Jan 2001 = 100
It has been over a decade since Zimbabwe was ravished by one of history's worst experiences in hyperinflation, reaching 79,600,000,000 percent as prices doubled approximately every 24.7 hour...
For the first time since 2014, the IRS is detailing how it will tax cryptocurrency holdings. Here's what you need to know.
Fed rate-setters worried by trade and political uncertainty and weaker manufacturing, minutes show...
Which threatens to put the fate of the bankrupt power giant in the hands of creditors and outsiders, wiping out the stock in the process.
Chairman Powell’s ideal operating environment most likely looks the same as every other Fed chair’s operating environment: one where the Fed is left alone to treat the economy like a Lego set.
A weaker U.S. consumer means recession risk can't be taken off the table, says Lakshman Achuthan, co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute.
One of the main drivers of foreign risk appetite in US financial assets has been the enormous and growing differential between risk-free yields available here versus those overseas
The growth among the child bearing population is decelerating and this population will begin outright declines around 2029.
We analyze the various components of the household balance sheet that drove net worth for the different percentile groups from Q1 2000 to Q1 2019...
Putin's warning about US sanctions being a "colossal strategic mistake" looks more prescient by the day...
Telegraph: Rebel rate-setters at the ECB warned that its money-printing program should only be used as a last resort as minutes from their September meeting revealed deep divides over its stimulus package.
Fed Recounts a Fiasco that Occurred as the FOMC Was Meeting, and How it Reacted...
Democrat front-runner Elizabeth Elizabeth wants to Remake Capitalism From the Ground Up.
We don’t employ technical analysis that much, one reason being we’re buying gold and silver for what we believe will be a major shift in our markets, economy and currency. The strategy then, is just keep accumulating and preparing for that shift. But I know someone who is very good at technical analysis. So good, in fact, he’s a multi-millionaire primarily from trading via technical analysis.
The central bank gold-buying spree shows no signs of letting up. In fact, it ramped up again in August after ebbing slightly in July, according to the latest data released by the World Gold Council.After a relatively modest net increase of 13.9 tons in July, central banks globally took in a net 57.3 tons of gold in August.
As the financial markets enter what I expect to be a rather disruptive completion to the recent speculative half-cycle, it will be helpful for investors to consider certain propositions that are readily available from history...
But Both Are Wrong... Caroline Baum
The unicorns are dying.Markets seemed to really wake up to the plight of the unicorn when WeWork aborted its much-anticipated IPO, but the air started coming out of the unicorn bubble long before WeWork's IPO demise.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.
Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said Thursday that he’s keeping an open mind about the need for more rate cuts.